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巾

巾

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

巾 (radical 50 巾+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 中月 (LB), four-corner 40227, composition ⿻冂丨)

  1. kerchief
  2. towel
  3. turban
  4. Kangxi radical #50, ⼱ ‎(“turban”).

References

  • KangXi: page 327, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8771
  • Dae Jaweon: page 632, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 727, character 17
  • Unihan data for U+5DFE

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 巾

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 巾
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (巾) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
巾 *krɯn
帘 *sɡrɯn, *rem

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 巾
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕin⁵⁵/
Harbin /t͡ɕin⁴⁴/
Tianjin /t͡ɕin²¹/
Jinan /t͡ɕiẽ²¹³/ 紅領～
/t͡ɕiẽ⁵⁵/ 毛～
Qingdao /t͡ɕiə̃²¹³/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕin²⁴/
Xi'an /t͡ɕiẽ²¹/
Xining /t͡ɕiə̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕiŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕĩn³¹/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕiŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /t͡ɕin⁵⁵/
Chengdu /t͡ɕin⁵⁵/
Guiyang /t͡ɕin⁵⁵/
Kunming /t͡ɕĩ/
Nanjing /t͡ɕin³¹/
Hefei /t͡ɕin²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕiəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /t͡ɕiŋ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡ɕĩŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /t͡ɕiŋ⁵³/
Suzhou /t͡ɕin⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡ɕin³³/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕaŋ³³/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕiʌ̃³¹/
Tunxi /t͡ɕin¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕin³³/
Xiangtan /t͡ɕin³³/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕin⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /kin⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /kin²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kɐn⁵³/
Nanning /kɐn⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /kɐn⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kun⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kyŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kœyŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /lɯŋ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kin²³/
/fɛ³⁵/ 訓帕
Rime
Character 巾
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 眞 (44)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 居銀切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠiɪn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚin/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kien/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kjin/
Li
Rong		 /kjĕn/
Wang
Li		 /kǐĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jīn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 巾
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jīn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kin ›
Old
Chinese		 /*krən/
English kerchief

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 巾
Reading # 1/1
No. 6550
Phonetic
component		 巾
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 巾
Old
Chinese		 /*krɯn/

Definitions

巾

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Compounds

  • 巾仔

References

Japanese

Kanji

巾

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. width

Readings

Korean

Hanja

巾 • ‎(geon) (hangeul 건, revised geon, McCune-Reischauer kŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

巾 (cân, khăn, khân)

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