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Translingual

Han character

(radical 78 +11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 一弓廿中一 (MNTLM), four-corner 14214, composition)

  1. to die
  2. death
  3. to starve to death

References

  • KangXi: page 582, character 38
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16551
  • Dae Jaweon: page 975, character 33
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1392, character 17
  • Unihan data for U+6BA3

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*krɯːn
*kʰrɯnʔ, *kʰrɯns
*ɡrɯn, *kɯnʔ
*ɡrɯn, *ɡrɯns
𥎊 *ɡrɯn
*ɡrɯns
*ɡrɯns
*ɡrɯns
*ɡrɯns
*ɡrɯns
*ɡrɯns
*ɡrɯns, *ɡɯn, *ɡɯnʔ
*ɡrɯns
*ŋɡrɯn, *ŋɡɯn
*kɯnʔ
槿 *kɯnʔ
*kɯnʔ
*kɯnʔ, *ɡɯn
*ɡɯn
*ɡɯn
*ɡɯn

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (30)
Final () (44)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɡˠiɪnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɡᵚinH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɡienH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/gjinH/
Li
Rong
/ɡjĕnH/
Wang
Li
/ɡǐĕnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/gi̯ĕnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jìn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jǐn
Middle
Chinese
‹ ginH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɡ]rə[r]-s/
English die of starvation

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 6737
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡrɯns/

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Japanese

Kanji

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