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今
今
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Han character
今 (radical 9 人+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 人戈弓 (OIN), four-corner 80207)
Derived characters
References
- KangXi: page 91, character 18
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 358
- Dae Jaweon: page 194, character 3
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 105, character 5
- Unihan data for U+4ECA
Chinese
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 今
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References:
Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (今) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 貪 | *kʰluːm' |
| 嗿 | *l̥ʰuːmʔ |
| 僋 | *l̥ʰuːms, *luːms |
| 酓 | *qʰɯːm, *qlamʔ, *qlɯːms |
| 馠 | *qʰɯːm |
| 谽 | *qʰɯːm |
| 唅 | *qʰɯːm, *ɡɯːms |
| 含 | *ɡɯːm |
| 肣 | *ɡɯːm, *ɡɯːmʔ |
| 頷 | *ɡɯːm, *ɡɯːmʔ |
| 筨 | *ɡɯːm |
| 梒 | *ɡɯːm |
| 鋡 | *ɡɯːm |
| 莟 | *ɡɯːmʔ, *ɡɯːms |
| 琀 | *ɡɯːms |
| 浛 | *ɡɯːms |
| 盦 | *qɯːm, *qaːb |
| 韽 | *qɯːm, *qrɯːms |
| 玪 | *krɯːm |
| 妗 | *qʰrɯːm, *kʰjam, *qʰlɯːm, *ɡrɯms |
| 欦 | *qʰrɯːmʔ, *qʰram, *kʰlam, *kʰlamʔ, *qʰlɯːm |
| 黔 | *ɡram, *ɡrɯm |
| 鈐 | *ɡram |
| 鳹 | *ɡram |
| 雂 | *ɡram, *ɡrɯm |
| 念 | *nɯːms |
| 梣 | *sɡɯm, *sɡrɯm |
| 枔 | *sɢrɯm |
| 岑 | *sɡrɯm |
| 笒 | *sɡrɯm, *ɡrɯms |
| 涔 | *sɡrɯm |
| 侺 | *ɡjɯms |
| 今 | *krɯm |
| 黅 | *krɯm |
| 衿 | *krɯm |
| 衾 | *kʰrɯm |
| 坅 | *kʰrɯmʔ |
| 搇 | *kʰrɯms |
| 琴 | *ɡrɯm |
| 禽 | *ɡrɯm |
| 芩 | *ɡrɯm |
| 庈 | *ɡrɯm |
| 耹 | *ɡrɯm |
| 靲 | *ɡrɯm |
| 擒 | *ɡrɯm |
| 檎 | *ɡrɯm |
| 紟 | *ɡrɯms |
| 吟 | *ŋɡrɯm, *ŋɡrɯms |
| 訡 | *ŋɡrɯm |
| 廞 | *qʰrɯm, *qʰrɯmʔ |
| 陰 | *qrɯm |
| 霠 | *qrɯm |
| 飲 | *qrɯmʔ, *qrɯms |
| 蔭 | *qrɯms |
| 廕 | *qrɯms |
| 矜 | *ɡrɯn, *ɡɯn, *kɯŋ |
Ideogram (指事) – in the mouth. The derivative 含 (OC *ɡɯːm) refers to the original word.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): gam1
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kîm
- Min Dong (BUC): gĭng
- Min Nan (POJ): kim / kin / taⁿ
- Wu (Wiktionary): jin (T1)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣ
- Wade-Giles: chin1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jin
- IPA (key): /t͡ɕin⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: gam1
- Yale: gām
- Cantonese Pinyin: gam1
- IPA (key): /kɐm⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kîm
- Hakka Romanization System: gim´
- Hagfa Pinyim: gim1
- IPA: /kim²⁴/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: gĭng
- IPA (key): /kiŋ⁵⁵/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kim / kin / taⁿ
- Tâi-lô: kim / kin / tann
- Phofsit Daibuun: kym, kyn, dvaf
- IPA (Xiamen): /kim⁴⁴/, /kin⁴⁴/, /tã⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /kim³³/, /kin³³/, /tã³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /kim⁴⁴/, /kin⁴⁴/, /tã⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /kim⁴⁴/, /kin⁴⁴/, /tã⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /kim⁴⁴/, /kin⁴⁴/, /tã⁴⁴/
- Note: kim - literary; kin - colloquial; taⁿ - semantic (also written as 旦 (dàn) or 當／当 (dāng)).
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: jin (T1)
- IPA (key): /t͡ɕɪɲ⁵³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
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| Character | 今 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 侵 (140) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | Chongniu III |
| Fanqie | 居吟切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/kˠiɪm/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/kᵚim/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/kiem/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/kjim/ |
| Li Rong |
/kjəm/ |
| Wang Li |
/kĭĕm/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ki̯əm/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
jīn |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
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| Character | 今 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
jīn |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ kim › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[k]r[ə]m/ |
| English | now |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 今 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 6599 |
| Phonetic component |
今 |
| Rime group |
侵 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
金 |
| Old Chinese |
/*krɯm/ |
| Notes | 文源謂含初文 |
Definitions
今
Compounds
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Japanese
Kanji
Readings
Compounds
| Kanji in this term |
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| 今 |
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いま Grade: 2 |
| kun'yomi |
Pronunciation
Adverb
See also
Noun
Synonyms
- 現在 (genzai)
Derived terms
Proper noun
- A surname.
References
- ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
- ↑ 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
今 • (geum)
Eumhun:
- Sound (hangeul): 금 (revised: geum, McCune-Reischauer: kŭm)
- Name (hangeul): 이제()
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Vietnamese
Han character
今 (kim)
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