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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 110 +4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 弓竹人戈弓 (NHOIN), four-corner 18227, composition)

  1. pity, feel sorry for, show sympathy for

References

  • KangXi: page 822, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23852
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1233, character 29
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2764, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+77DC

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʰluːm'
*l̥ʰuːmʔ
*l̥ʰuːms, *luːms
*qʰɯːm, *qlamʔ, *qlɯːms
*qʰɯːm
*qʰɯːm
*qʰɯːm, *ɡɯːms
*ɡɯːm
*ɡɯːm, *ɡɯːmʔ
*ɡɯːm, *ɡɯːmʔ
*ɡɯːm
*ɡɯːm
*ɡɯːm
*ɡɯːmʔ, *ɡɯːms
*ɡɯːms
*ɡɯːms
*qɯːm, *qaːb
*qɯːm, *qrɯːms
*krɯːm
*qʰrɯːm, *kʰjam, *qʰlɯːm, *ɡrɯms
*qʰrɯːmʔ, *qʰram, *kʰlam, *kʰlamʔ, *qʰlɯːm
*ɡram, *ɡrɯm
*ɡram
*ɡram
*ɡram, *ɡrɯm
*nɯːms
*sɡɯm, *sɡrɯm
*sɢrɯm
*sɡrɯm
*sɡrɯm, *ɡrɯms
*sɡrɯm
*ɡjɯms
*krɯm
*krɯm
*krɯm
*kʰrɯm
*kʰrɯmʔ
*kʰrɯms
*ɡrɯm
*ɡrɯm
*ɡrɯm
*ɡrɯm
*ɡrɯm
*ɡrɯm
*ɡrɯm
*ɡrɯm
*ɡrɯms
*ŋɡrɯm, *ŋɡrɯms
*ŋɡrɯm
*qʰrɯm, *qʰrɯmʔ
*qrɯm
*qrɯm
*qrɯmʔ, *qrɯms
*qrɯms
*qrɯms
*ɡrɯn, *ɡɯn, *kɯŋ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (133)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kɨŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/kɨŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/kieŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kiŋ/
Li
Rong
/kiəŋ/
Wang
Li
/kĭəŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ki̯əŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jīng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jīn jīn qín
Middle
Chinese
‹ king › ‹ king › ‹ gin ›
Old
Chinese
/*k-riŋ/ (dialect: *k-r- > k-, *-iŋ > MC -ing) /*k-riŋ/ /*ɡriŋ/
English pity (v.) boastful kind of lance

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 # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 6629 6630 6631
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
𥎊
Old
Chinese
/*ɡrɯn/ /*ɡɯn/ /*kɯŋ/
Notes 𥎊 𥎊

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 不矜
  • 不矜不伐
  • 不矜名節不矜名节
  • 不矜細行不矜细行
  • 剛而自矜刚而自矜
  • 可矜
  • 哀矜
  • 奮矜奋矜
  • 好自矜誇好自矜夸
  • 弔詭矜奇弔诡矜奇
  • 恃才矜己
  • 棘矜
  • 矜人
  • 矜伐
  • 矜免
  • 矜功
  • 矜功不立
  • 矜功伐善
  • 矜功恃寵矜功恃宠
  • 矜功自伐
  • 矜功負勝矜功负胜
  • 矜功負氣矜功负气
  • 矜名嫉能
  • 矜哀
  • 矜奇立異矜奇立异
  • 矜寡孤獨矜寡孤独
  • 矜寵矜宠
  • 矜己任智
  • 矜己自飾矜己自饰
  • 矜式
  • 矜張矜张
  • 矜張顯著矜张显著
  • 矜恤
  • 矜惜
  • 矜愍
  • 矜憫矜悯
  • 矜才使氣矜才使气
  • 矜持 (jīnchí)
  • 矜智負能矜智负能
  • 矜滿矜满
  • 矜矜
  • 矜矜業業矜矜业业
  • 矜糾收繚矜纠收缭
  • 矜育
  • 矜能負才矜能负才
  • 矜莊矜庄
  • 矜誇矜夸
  • 矜貧恤獨矜贫恤独
  • 矜貧救厄矜贫救厄
  • 矜貴矜贵 (jīnguì)
  • 矜重
  • 矜鑒矜鉴
  • 矜飾矜饰
  • 自矜
  • 驕矜骄矜
  • 驕矜狂妄骄矜狂妄
  • 驕矜自喜骄矜自喜

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(geung, geun) (hangeul , , revised geung, geun, McCune-Reischauer kŭng, kŭn, Yale kung, kun)

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