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泉

泉

Translingual

Han character

泉 (radical 85 水+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹日水 (HAE), four-corner 26232, composition ⿱白水)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 615, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17274
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1009, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1576, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+6CC9

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 泉

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 泉
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (泉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
線 *sqʰeːns
泉 *sɡʷen
葲 *sɡʷen
灥 *kʰʷjen, *sɢʷin

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 泉
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 從 (15)
Final (韻) 仙 (78)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 疾緣切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ziuᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡zʷiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡zjuæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡zwian/
Li
Rong		 /d͡ziuɛn/
Wang
Li		 /d͡zĭwɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /d͡zʱi̯wɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 quán
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 泉
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 quán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzjwen ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s-N-ɢʷar/ (MC I!)
English spring, source

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 泉
Reading # 1/1
No. 10728
Phonetic
component		 泉
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 全
Old
Chinese		 /*sɡʷen/

Noun

泉

  1. spring; fountain
  2. an ancient type of coin

Japanese

Kanji

泉

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. spring (source of water)

Readings

Compounds

  • 鉱泉

Etymology

/idumi/ > /izumi/. Compound of verb 出ず ‎(izu, “to come out”) +‎ 水 ‎(mi, “water”).

Noun

泉 ‎(hiragana いずみ, romaji izumi, historical hiragana いづみ)

  1. natural spring; a wellspring

Proper noun

泉 ‎(hiragana いずみ, romaji Izumi, historical hiragana いづみ)

  1. a place name
  2. A surname​.
  3. A unisex given name

Korean

Hanja

泉 • ‎(cheon) (hangeul 천, revised cheon, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏn, Yale chen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

泉 (tuyền)

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