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秦

秦

See also: 奉, 奏, and 泰

Translingual

Han character

秦 (radical 115 禾+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 手大竹木 (QKHD), four-corner 50904, composition ⿱𡗗禾)

  1. feudal state of Qin
  2. the Qin Dynasty
  3. an ash tree

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 851, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24995
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1275, character 28
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2597, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+79E6

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 秦

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 秦
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (秦) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
轃 *ʔsiːn, *ʔsrin
秦 *zin
螓 *zin
臻 *ʔsrin
蓁 *ʔsrin
搸 *ʔsrin
溱 *ʔsrin
榛 *ʔsrin

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 秦
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕʰin³⁵/
Harbin /t͡ɕʰin²⁴/
Tianjin /t͡ɕʰin⁴⁵/
Jinan /t͡ɕʰiẽ⁴²/
Qingdao /t͡sʰiə̃⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡sʰin⁴²/
Xi'an /t͡ɕʰiẽ²⁴/
Xining /t͡ɕʰiə̃²⁴/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕʰĩn⁵³/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡ɕʰin²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡ɕʰin³¹/
Guiyang /t͡ɕʰin²¹/
Kunming /t͡ɕʰĩ²¹²/
Nanjing /t͡ɕʰin²⁴/
Hefei /t͡ɕʰin⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕʰiəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /t͡sʰəŋ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡ɕʰiŋ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ʑiŋ²³/
Suzhou /zin¹³/
Hangzhou /d͡ʑin²¹³/
Wenzhou /zaŋ³¹/
Hui Shexian /t͡sʰiʌ̃⁴⁴/
Tunxi /t͡sʰin⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /t͡sin¹³/
Xiangtan /d͡zin¹²/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕʰin²⁴/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰin¹¹/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰøn²¹/
Nanning /t͡sʰɐn²¹/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰøn²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡sin³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡siŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡seiŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sʰiŋ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /sun³¹/
Rime
Character 秦
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 從 (15)
Final (韻) 眞 (43)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 匠鄰切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ziɪn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡zin/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡zjen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡zin/
Li
Rong		 /d͡ziĕn/
Wang
Li		 /d͡zĭĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /d͡zʱi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 qín
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 秦
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 qín
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzin ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[dz]i[n]/
English Qín (place name)

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 秦
Reading # 1/1
No. 10497
Phonetic
component		 秦
Rime
group		 眞
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 秦
Old
Chinese		 /*zin/

Definitions

秦

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Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji

秦

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Proper noun

秦 ‎(hiragana しん, romaji Shin)

  1. Qin dynasty

秦 ‎(hiragana はた, romaji Hata)

  1. A surname​.

Korean

Hanja

秦 • ‎(jin) (hangeul 진, revised jin, McCune-Reischauer chin, Yale cin)

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Vietnamese

Han character

秦 (tần, thái)

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