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Translingual

Han character

(radical 96 +5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一土人竹竹 (MGOHH), four-corner 18122, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 730, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20920
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1141, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1107, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+73CD

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*rɯːls
*nlanʔ, *l̥ʰɯns, *l'ɯn
*ʔl'anʔ, *kljɯnʔ
*nlɯːnʔ, *l'ɯːnʔ
*l'ɯːnʔ
*hlɯːnʔ
*rɯn, *kljɯnʔ
*ʔl'ɯn
*l'ɯns, *kljɯnʔ
*kljɯn, *kljɯnʔ
*kljɯnʔ
*kljɯnʔ
*kljɯnʔ, *klɯnʔ
*kljɯnʔ, *kljɯns
*kljɯnʔ
*l̥ʰɯːd
*r̥ʰɯːd

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (9)
Final () (44)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʈˠiɪn/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈᵚin/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȶien/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈjin/
Li
Rong
/ȶjĕn/
Wang
Li
/ȶǐĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȶi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhēn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhēn
Middle
Chinese
‹ trin ›
Old
Chinese
/*trə[n]/
English precious thing

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. 17091
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔl'ɯn/

Definitions

  1. treasure
  2. precious; valuable; rare
  3. to treasure; to value

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
ちん
Grade: S
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese (trin, treasure, precious thing).

Pronunciation

Adjective

(-na inflection, hiragana ちん, romaji chin)

  1. rare, strange

Inflection

Noun

(hiragana ちん, romaji chin)

  1. rarity

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

(jin)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul):  (revised: jin, McCune-Reischauer: chin, Yale: cin)
  • Name (hangeul): 보배()
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Vietnamese

Han character

(trân, trằn)

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