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榛
榛
Translingual
Han character
榛 (radical 75 木+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 木手大木 (DQKD), four-corner 45994, composition ⿰木秦)
References
- KangXi: page 543, character 18
 - Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15240
 - Dae Jaweon: page 931, character 7
 - Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1259, character 5
 - Unihan data for U+699B
 
Chinese
| 
simp. and trad. | 
榛 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (秦) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 轃 | *ʔsiːn, *ʔsrin | 
| 秦 | *zin | 
| 螓 | *zin | 
| 臻 | *ʔsrin | 
| 蓁 | *ʔsrin | 
| 搸 | *ʔsrin | 
| 溱 | *ʔsrin | 
| 榛 | *ʔsrin | 
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔsrin) : semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 秦 (OC *zin).
Pronunciation
-  Mandarin
-  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
 - Zhuyin: ㄓㄣ
 - Wade-Giles: chên1
 - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jen
 - IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂən⁵⁵/
 
 
 -  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
 -  Cantonese
-  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: zeon1
 - Yale: jēun
 - Cantonese Pinyin: dzoen1
 - IPA (key): /t͡ɕɵn⁵⁵/
 
 
 -  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
 - Min Nan
 
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 榛 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| Initial (聲) | 莊 (18) | 
| Final (韻) | 臻 (46) | 
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | 
| Openness (開合) | Open | 
| Division (等) | III | 
| Fanqie | 側詵切 | 
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang  | 
/t͡ʃɪn/ | 
| Pan Wuyun  | 
/ʈ͡ʂɪn/ | 
| Shao Rongfen  | 
/t͡ʃien/ | 
| Edwin Pulleyblank  | 
/ʈ͡ʂin/ | 
| Li Rong  | 
/t͡ʃiĕn/ | 
| Wang Li  | 
/t͡ʃĭen/ | 
| Bernard Karlgren  | 
/ʈ͡ʂi̯æn/ | 
| Expected Mandarin Reflex  | 
zhēn | 
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 榛 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin)  | 
zhēn | 
| Middle Chinese  | 
‹ tsrin › | 
| Old Chinese  | 
/*tsri[n]/ | 
| English | hazel | 
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: 					* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;  | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 榛 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| No. | 10503 | 
| Phonetic component  | 
秦 | 
| Rime group  | 
眞 | 
| Rime subdivision  | 
1 | 
| Corresponding MC rime  | 
臻 | 
| Old Chinese  | 
/*ʔsrin/ | 
Definitions
榛
Japanese
Kanji
榛
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
榛 • (jin) (hangeul 진, revised jin, McCune-Reischauer chin, Yale cin)
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Vietnamese
Han character
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