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Translingual

Han character

(radical 96 +5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一土口女心 (MGRVP))

  1. jade-like stone

References

  • KangXi: page 729, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20916
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1141, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1108, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+73C9

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*miːn
*min
*min, *minʔ
*min, *mɯːn
*mrin
*mrin
*mrin
*mrin, *minʔ
*mrin
*mrɯn, *mrɯn, *mrɯnʔ
*minʔ
*mrinʔ
*mrinʔ
*mrinʔ
*mɯn

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (44)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mˠiɪn/
Pan
Wuyun
/mᵚin/
Shao
Rongfen
/mien/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/mjin/
Li
Rong
/mjĕn/
Wang
Li
/mǐĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
mín
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
mín
Middle
Chinese
‹ min ›
Old
Chinese
/*mr[ə][n]/
English a kind of precious stone

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 9134
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mrin/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. jade-like stone

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(min) (hangeul , revised min, McCune-Reischauer min, Yale min)

  1. jade

Vietnamese

Han character

(mân, mần)

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