荏
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Translingual edit
Han character edit
荏 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿人竹土 (TOHG), four-corner 44214, composition ⿱艹任)
Derived characters edit
References edit
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1031, character 5
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30950
- Dae Jaweon: page 1490, character 5
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3206, character 4
- Unihan data for U+834F
Chinese edit
trad. | 荏 | |
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simp. # | 荏 |
Glyph origin edit
Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *njɯmʔ) : semantic 艹 + phonetic 任 (OC *njɯm, *njɯms).
Etymology edit
- “a kind of big bean”
- Cognate with Burmese ညံ (nyam, “the legume Sesbania cannabina”) (Schuessler, 2007).
- “soft; weak”
- From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *njam (“soft”). Cognate with Burmese ညံ့ (nyam., “soft”), Mizo nêm (“soft”). Outside Sino-Tibetan, compare Thai นุ่ม (nûm, “soft”).
- Possibly related to 飪 (OC *njɯmʔ, “cooked”), 腍 (OC *njɯmʔ, “cooked; delicious”) (Schuessler, 2007).
Pronunciation edit
Definitions edit
荏
- † perilla (Perilla frutescens)
- † a kind of big bean; big
- † soft; weak; yielding
- (Singapore Hokkien) weak; feeble; frail
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Kanji edit
荏
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Korean edit
Hanja edit
荏 • (im) (hangeul 임, revised im, McCune–Reischauer im, Yale im)
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