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Translingual

Han character

(radical 184 +11, 20 strokes, cangjie input 人戈廿中一 (OITLM), four-corner 84714)

  1. time of famine or crop failure

References

  • KangXi: page 1425, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44366
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1950, character 34
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4469, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+9949

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*krɯːn
*kʰrɯnʔ, *kʰrɯns
*ɡrɯn, *kɯnʔ
*ɡrɯn, *ɡrɯns
𥎊 *ɡrɯn
*ɡrɯns
*ɡrɯns
*ɡrɯns
*ɡrɯns
*ɡrɯns
*ɡrɯns
*ɡrɯns, *ɡɯn, *ɡɯnʔ
*ɡrɯns
*ŋɡrɯn, *ŋɡɯn
*kɯnʔ
槿 *kɯnʔ
*kɯnʔ
*kɯnʔ, *ɡɯn
*ɡɯn
*ɡɯn
*ɡɯn

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (30)
Final () (44)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɡˠiɪnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɡᵚinH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɡienH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/gjinH/
Li
Rong
/ɡjĕnH/
Wang
Li
/ɡǐĕnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/gi̯ĕnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jìn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jìn
Middle
Chinese
‹ ginH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɡ]rə[r]-s/
English famine

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. 6738
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡrɯns/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 饑饉之歲饥馑之岁
  • 饑饉荐臻饥馑荐臻
  • 饑饉薦臻饥馑荐臻

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(geun) (hangeul , revised geun, McCune-Reischauer kŭn, Yale kun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(cận)

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