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僅

僅

僅 U+50C5, 僅
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-50C5
← 僄
[U+50C4] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 僆 →
[U+50C6]
See also: 仅

Translingual

Han character

僅 (radical 9 人+11, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人廿中一 (OTLM), four-corner 24214, composition ⿰亻堇 (GTKV) or ⿰亻𦰌 (J))

  1. only, merely, solely, just

References

  • KangXi: page 115, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1048
  • Dae Jaweon: page 246, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 208, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+50C5

Chinese

trad. 僅
simp. 仅

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 僅
Large seal script

L31353
Small seal script

s05795
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 (堇) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
囏 *krɯːn
螼 *kʰrɯnʔ, *kʰrɯns
堇 *ɡrɯn, *kɯnʔ
墐 *ɡrɯn, *ɡrɯns
𥎊 *ɡrɯn
僅 *ɡrɯns
瑾 *ɡrɯns
覲 *ɡrɯns
殣 *ɡrɯns
饉 *ɡrɯns
廑 *ɡrɯns
瘽 *ɡrɯns, *ɡɯn, *ɡɯnʔ
歏 *ɡrɯns
鄞 *ŋɡrɯn, *ŋɡɯn
謹 *kɯnʔ
槿 *kɯnʔ
漌 *kɯnʔ
慬 *kɯnʔ, *ɡɯn
勤 *ɡɯn
懃 *ɡɯn
懄 *ɡɯn

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 僅
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 眞 (44)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 渠遴切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɡˠiɪnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɡᵚinH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɡienH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /gjinH/
Li
Rong		 /ɡjĕnH/
Wang
Li		 /ɡǐĕnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /gi̯ĕnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jìn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 僅
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jìn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ginH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɡ]rə[r]-s/
English barely

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 僅
Reading # 1/1
No. 6734
Phonetic
component		 堇
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 僅
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡrɯns/

Definitions

僅

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Compounds

  • 僅可／仅可
  • 僅夠／仅够
  • 僅容旋馬／仅容旋马
  • 僅有／仅有 (jǐnyǒu)
  • 功僅補過／功仅补过
  • 碩果僅存／硕果仅存
  • 絕無僅有／绝无仅有

References

Japanese

Kanji

僅

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

僅 • ‎(geun) (hangeul 근, revised geun, McCune-Reischauer kŭn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

僅 (cận, cẩn)

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