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忱

忱

Translingual

Han character

忱 (radical 61 心+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 心中月山 (PLBU), four-corner 94012, composition ⿰忄冘)

  1. truth, sincerity
  2. sincere

References

  • KangXi: page 378, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10382
  • Dae Jaweon: page 706, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2278, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+5FF1

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 忱

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 忱
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (冘) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
冘 *lu, *lum
抌 *lu, *ʔl'uːmʔ, *loʔ
狖 *lus
貁 *lus
耽 *ʔl'uːm
眈 *ʔl'uːm, *ʔl'uːmʔ, *l'uːm
酖 *ʔl'uːm
妉 *ʔl'uːm
黕 *ʔl'uːmʔ
衴 *ʔl'uːmʔ
瓭 *ʔl'uːmʔ
馾 *ʔl'uːms
髧 *l'uːmʔ
紞 *ʔl'oːmʔ
鈂 *zlum, *l'um
沈 *l'um, *l'ums, *hljumʔ
沉 *l'um
枕 *l'um, *ʔljumʔ, *ʔljums
莐 *l'um
霃 *l'um
鴆 *l'ums
訦 *ɦljum, *ɦljumʔ
忱 *ɦljum
邥 *hljumʔ
魫 *hljumʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 忱
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 常 (25)
Final (韻) 侵 (139)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 氏任切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ʑiɪm/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡ʑim/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡ʑjem/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡ʑim/
Li
Rong		 /ʑiəm/
Wang
Li		 /ʑĭĕm/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʑi̯əm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chén
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 忱
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 chén
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzyim ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[t.ɢ][u]m/
English sincere

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 忱
Reading # 1/1
No. 15265
Phonetic
component		 冘
Rime
group		 侵
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 諶
Old
Chinese		 /*ɦljum/
Notes 同訦

Noun

忱

  1. sincerity; honesty; sincere feeling

Japanese

Kanji

忱

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

忱 • ‎(chim) (hangeul 침, revised chim, McCune-Reischauer ch'im, Yale chim)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

忱 ‎(Pinyin chén (chen2), Wade-Giles ch'en2)

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Vietnamese

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