Wiktionary

錦

See also: 锦
錦 U+9326, 錦
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9326
← 錥
[U+9325] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 錧 →
[U+9327]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

錦 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 金竹日月 (CHAB), four-corner 86127, composition ⿰釒帛)

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1311, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40569
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1812, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4222, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+9326

Chinese edit

trad. 錦
simp. 锦

Glyph origin edit

Characters in the same phonetic series (金) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
淦 *kɯːm, *kɯːms
顉 *ŋɯːmʔ, *ŋ̊ʰrɯm, *ŋ̊ʰɯmʔ
金 *krɯm
錦 *krɯmʔ
欽 *kʰrɯm
菳 *kʰrɯm
嶔 *kʰrɯm
撳 *kʰrɯms
捦 *ɡrɯm
鵭 *ɡrɯm
唫 *ɡrɯmʔ, *ŋɡrɯm
鈙 *ɡrɯms
崟 *ŋɡrɯm
趛 *ŋɡrɯmʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *krɯmʔ) : phonetic 金 (OC *krɯm) + semantic 帛.

Pronunciation edit

Rime
Character 錦
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 侵 (140)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 居飲切
Baxter kimX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kˠiɪmX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kᵚimX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kiemX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kjimX/
Li
Rong 		/kjəmX/
Wang
Li 		/kĭĕmX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ki̯əmX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		jǐn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gam2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 錦
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		jǐn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kimX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*Cə.k(r)[ə]mʔ/
English brocade

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 錦
Reading # 1/1
No. 6680
Phonetic
component 		金
Rime
group 		侵
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		錦
Old
Chinese 		/*krɯmʔ/

Definitions edit

錦

  1. brocade; tapestry; polychrome woven silk.
  2. embroidered
  3. bright and beautiful

Compounds edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

錦

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. brocade

Readings edit

Compounds edit

Compounds

Etymology edit

Kanji in this term
錦
にしき
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Originally a compound of 丹 (ni, “red”) + 頻 (shiki, “repetition”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

錦(にしき) • (nishiki) 

  1. brocade (generic name for weaving fabrics with various colored threads)
  2. a word expressing beauty (for example, colors or patterns) (Can we verify(+) this sense?)

Derived terms edit

Derived terms

Idioms edit

Idioms

References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Chinese 錦 (MC kimX). Recorded as Middle Korean 금〯 (kǔm) (Yale: kum) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja edit

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

錦 (eumhun 비단 금 (bidan geum))

  1. Hanja form? of 금 (“brocade”).

Compounds edit

Compounds

References edit

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

錦: Hán Nôm readings: cẩm, gấm

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