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禽
禽
Translingual
Han character
禽 (radical 114 禸+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人卜山月 (OYUB), four-corner 80427, composition ⿱𠆢离)
Derived characters
References
- KangXi: page 848, character 13
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24893
- Dae Jaweon: page 1270, character 6
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 199, character 4
- Unihan data for U+79BD
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
禽 | |
|---|---|---|
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄣˊ
- Wade-Giles: ch'in2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyn
- IPA (key): /t͡ɕʰin³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: kam4
- Yale: kàhm
- Cantonese Pinyin: kam4
- IPA (key): /kʰɐm²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 禽 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 群 (30) |
| Final (韻) | 侵 (140) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | Chongniu III |
| Fanqie | 巨金切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ɡˠiɪm/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ɡᵚim/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ɡiem/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/gjim/ |
| Li Rong |
/ɡjəm/ |
| Wang Li |
/ɡĭĕm/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/gi̯əm/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
qín |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 禽 | 禽 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
qín | qín |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ gim › | ‹ gim › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[C.ɢ](r)[ə]m/ | /*[C.ɢ](r)[ə]m/ |
| English | bird; animal | catch, capture |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | ||
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 禽 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 6607 |
| Phonetic component |
今 |
| Rime group |
侵 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
琴 |
| Old Chinese |
/*ɡrɯm/ |
Noun
禽
Verb
禽
Proper noun
禽
- A surname.
Japanese
Kanji
禽
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)
Readings
Compounds
Usage notes
Rarely used in modern Japanese. The character 鳥 is used instead to spell the tori reading.
Korean
Hanja
禽 • (geum) (hangeul 금, revised geum, McCune-Reischauer kŭm, Yale kum)
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Vietnamese
Han character
禽 (cầm)
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Etymology
| Historical forms of the character 禽
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|---|---|---|---|
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (今) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 貪 | *kʰluːm' |
| 嗿 | *l̥ʰuːmʔ |
| 僋 | *l̥ʰuːms, *luːms |
| 酓 | *qʰɯːm, *qlamʔ, *qlɯːms |
| 馠 | *qʰɯːm |
| 谽 | *qʰɯːm |
| 唅 | *qʰɯːm, *ɡɯːms |
| 含 | *ɡɯːm |
| 肣 | *ɡɯːm, *ɡɯːmʔ |
| 頷 | *ɡɯːm, *ɡɯːmʔ |
| 筨 | *ɡɯːm |
| 梒 | *ɡɯːm |
| 鋡 | *ɡɯːm |
| 莟 | *ɡɯːmʔ, *ɡɯːms |
| 琀 | *ɡɯːms |
| 浛 | *ɡɯːms |
| 盦 | *qɯːm, *qaːb |
| 韽 | *qɯːm, *qrɯːms |
| 玪 | *krɯːm |
| 妗 | *qʰrɯːm, *kʰjam, *qʰlɯːm, *ɡrɯms |
| 欦 | *qʰrɯːmʔ, *qʰram, *kʰlam, *kʰlamʔ, *qʰlɯːm |
| 黔 | *ɡram, *ɡrɯm |
| 鈐 | *ɡram |
| 鳹 | *ɡram |
| 雂 | *ɡram, *ɡrɯm |
| 念 | *nɯːms |
| 梣 | *sɡɯm, *sɡrɯm |
| 枔 | *sɢrɯm |
| 岑 | *sɡrɯm |
| 笒 | *sɡrɯm, *ɡrɯms |
| 涔 | *sɡrɯm |
| 侺 | *ɡjɯms |
| 今 | *krɯm |
| 黅 | *krɯm |
| 衿 | *krɯm |
| 衾 | *kʰrɯm |
| 坅 | *kʰrɯmʔ |
| 搇 | *kʰrɯms |
| 琴 | *ɡrɯm |
| 禽 | *ɡrɯm |
| 芩 | *ɡrɯm |
| 庈 | *ɡrɯm |
| 耹 | *ɡrɯm |
| 靲 | *ɡrɯm |
| 擒 | *ɡrɯm |
| 檎 | *ɡrɯm |
| 紟 | *ɡrɯms |
| 吟 | *ŋɡrɯm, *ŋɡrɯms |
| 訡 | *ŋɡrɯm |
| 廞 | *qʰrɯm, *qʰrɯmʔ |
| 陰 | *qrɯm |
| 霠 | *qrɯm |
| 飲 | *qrɯmʔ, *qrɯms |
| 蔭 | *qrɯms |
| 廕 | *qrɯms |
| 矜 | *ɡrɯn, *ɡɯn, *kɯŋ |
Ideogram (指事) – an animal (离, bottom) being captured by a mouth (亼, top); compare 离. In current form, graphically 人 + 离.