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歆

歆

Translingual

Han character

歆 (radical 76 欠+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜日弓人 (YANO), four-corner 07682, composition ⿰音欠)

  1. like, admire
  2. willingly, gladly
  3. to quicken

References

  • KangXi: page 570, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16139
  • Dae Jaweon: page 958, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2146, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+6B46

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 歆

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 歆
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (音) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
諳 *qɯːm
腤 *qɯːm
嬜 *qɯːm, *qʰaːm, *qʰrɯm
喑 *qɯːm, *qrɯm, *qrɯms
揞 *qɯːmʔ, *qrɯːms
隌 *qɯːmʔ, *qrɯm
罯 *qɯːmʔ, *qɯːb
暗 *qɯːms
闇 *qɯːms
黯 *qrɯːm, *qrɯːmʔ
歆 *qʰrɯm
愔 *qɯm
韾 *qɯm
音 *qrɯm
瘖 *qrɯm
窨 *qrɯms
湆 *kʰrɯb

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 歆
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 侵 (140)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 許金切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /hˠiɪm/
Pan
Wuyun		 /hᵚim/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xiem/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hjim/
Li
Rong		 /xjəm/
Wang
Li		 /xĭĕm/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xi̯əm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xīn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 歆
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xīn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ xim ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[qʰ](r)əm/
English enjoy (fragrance)

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 歆
Reading # 1/1
No. 15219
Phonetic
component		 音
Rime
group		 侵
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 歆
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰrɯm/

Definitions

歆

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Japanese

Kanji

歆

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. like
  2. admire
  3. willingly
  4. gladly
  5. to quicken

Readings

Korean

Hanja

歆 • ‎(heum) (hangeul 흠, revised heum, McCune-Reischauer hŭm, Yale hum)

  1. to envy, be jealous
  2. to want, seek after

Vietnamese

Han character

歆 (hâm, ham, hăm, hôm, hổm, hum, hẩm)

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References

  • Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
  • Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
  • Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm , NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999

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