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Translingual

Han character

(radical 32 +6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一田土 (MWG) or X一田土 (XMWG), four-corner 10104, composition/西土(depending on font))

  1. to restrain
  2. to dam a stream and change its direction
  3. a mound

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 228, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5041
  • Dae Jaweon: page 463, character 27
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 438, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5794

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qriːn
*ken, *kin
*ken, *kjin
*ken, *kjin
*qiːn
*qiːn, *qin
*qin
*qin
*qin
*qin
*qin
*qin
*qin
*kʷens

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (34)
Final () (43)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔiɪn/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔin/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔjen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔin/
Li
Rong
/ʔiĕn/
Wang
Li
/ĭĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yīn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yīn
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔjin ›
Old
Chinese
/*[q]i[n]/
English dam up, block; mound

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. 15201
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qin/
Notes 西

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. to restrain
  2. to dam a stream and change its direction
  3. mound

Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

  1. stop up, close, block
  2. bury, get buried
  3. ladder