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仞

仞	U+4EDE, 仞 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EDE

← 仝
[U+4EDD]

CJK Unified Ideographs

仟 →
[U+4EDF]

See also: 仭

Translingual

Han character

仞 (radical 9 人+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 人尸竹戈 (OSHI), four-corner 2722₀, composition ⿰亻刃)

ancient unit of measure (8 feet)
'fathom' (unit of depth measure)

References

KangXi: page 93, character 4

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 379

Dae Jaweon: page 197, character 1

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 115, character 7

Unihan data for U+4EDE

Chinese

simp. and trad.		仞

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 仞

Small seal script

**Small seal script**
s05661

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
Liushutong (large seal) and
Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (刃) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
涊	nɯːnʔ, njɯnʔ
紉	*nɯn
忍	*njɯnʔ
荵	*njɯnʔ
刃	*njɯns
認	njɯns, njɯŋs
仞	*njɯns
軔	*njɯns
韌	*njɯns
肕	*njɯns
牣	*njɯns
杒	*njɯns
訒	*njɯns

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): rèn (ren⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄖㄣˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jan⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: rèn
  - Zhuyin: ㄖㄣˋ
  - Wade-Giles: jên⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: renn
  - IPA ^(key): /ʐən⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: jan⁶
  - Yale: yahn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jan⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /jɐn²²/

Middle Chinese: /ȵiɪn^H/▼

Rime
Character	仞
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	日 (38)
Final (韻)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	而振切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ȵiɪn^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ȵin^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ȵʑjen^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ȵin^H/
Li Rong	/ȵiĕn^H/
Wang Li	/ȵʑĭĕn^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȵʑi̯ĕn^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	rèn

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*njɯns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	仞
Reading #	1/1
No.	10833
Phonetic component	刃
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	刃
Old Chinese	/*njɯns/

Definitions

仞

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Japanese

Kanji

仞

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

On: じん (jin)

Kun: はかる (hakaru)

Noun

仞 ‎(hiragana じん, romaji jin)

ren, ancient Chinese unit of measure

Korean

Hanja

仞 • ‎(in) (hangeul 인, revised in, McCune-Reischauer in)

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