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Translingual

Han character

(radical 167 +2, 10 strokes, cangjie input 金十 (CJ), four-corner 84100, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1296, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40165
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1799, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4168, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+91DD

Chinese

trad.
simp.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kjum, *kjums
*kjub
*kʰljub
*ɡjub
*ɡjub

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kjum, *kjums) : semantic  (metal) + phonetic  (OC *ɡjub).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (23) (23)
Final () (139) (139)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕiɪm/ /t͡ɕiɪmH/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕim/ /t͡ɕimH/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕjem/ /t͡ɕjemH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cim/ /cimH/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕiəm/ /t͡ɕiəmH/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕĭĕm/ /t͡ɕĭĕmH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕi̯əm/ /t͡ɕi̯əmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhēn zhèn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhēn
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsyim ›
Old
Chinese
/*t.[k]əm/
English needle

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 11448 11449
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3 3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kjum/ /*kjums/
Notes

Definitions

  1. needle
  2. needle-like object; pin; brooch; hand (of a clock or watch); tack
  3. injection
  4. stitch
  5. acupuncture
  6. to poke
  7. (Cantonese) spy; informer   (Classifier: )
  8. Classifier for the number of injections.
  9. Classifier for the number of stitches.

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
はり
Grade: 6
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana はり, romaji hari)

  1. pin, needle
  2. hand (of a clock or watch)
    時計 (とけい) (はり)3時 (さんじ) ()しています。
    Tokei no hari wa san-ji o sashiteimasu.
    The clock's hand is pointing to 3 o'clock.
  3. thorn
  4. staple (of a stapler)
    • 平沢唯 (CV: 豊崎愛生), 秋山澪 (CV: 日笠陽子) (lyrics 稲葉エミ), わたしの恋はホッチキス
      はじまりだけは  (かる)いノリで しらないうちに あつくなって もう (はり)がなんだか (とお)らない
      hajimari dake wa karui nori de shiranai uchi ni atsukunatte mō hari ga nandaka tōranai
      At first I started lightly, but before I knew it, it got so thick the staples won't go through anymore
  5. (fishing) hook
Derived terms

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

(chim) (hangeul , revised chim, McCune-Reischauer ch'im, Yale chim)

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Okinawan

Kanji

(hiragana はーい, romaji hāi)

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese (hari).

Alternative forms

Noun

(hiragana はーい, romaji hāi)

  1. needle

Vietnamese

Han character

(châm, chăm, chảm, găm, kim, trâm)

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