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Translingual

Han character

(radical 159 +3, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十十尸竹戈 (JJSHI), four-corner 57020)

  1. a block that keeps a wheel from moving

References

  • KangXi: page 1240, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38190
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1716, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3516, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+8ED4

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*nɯːnʔ, *njɯnʔ
*nɯn
*njɯnʔ
*njɯnʔ
*njɯns
*njɯns, *njɯŋs
*njɯns
*njɯns
*njɯns
*njɯns
*njɯns
*njɯns
*njɯns

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (38)
Final () (43)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ȵiɪnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ȵinH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȵʑjenH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ȵinH/
Li
Rong
/ȵiĕnH/
Wang
Li
/ȵʑĭĕnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȵʑi̯ĕnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
rèn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
rèn
Middle
Chinese
‹ nyinH ›
Old
Chinese
/*nər(ʔ)-s/
English wheel stopper

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. 10834
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*njɯns/
Notes

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 發軔发轫
  • 雲程發軔云程发轫

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. block that keeps wheel from moving

Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

  1. a piece of wood serving as a brake to halt a carriage