巾

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TranslingualEdit

Stroke order

Han characterEdit

巾 (radical 50 巾+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 中月 (LB), four-corner 4022₇, composition ⿻冂丨)

1. kerchief
2. towel
3. turban
4. Kangxi radical #50, ⼱ ‎(“turban”).

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 327, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8771
• Dae Jaweon: page 632, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 727, character 17
• Unihan data for U+5DFE

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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		巾

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 巾
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jīn (jin¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gan¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kîn
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): kin / kun

  (Teochew, Peng'im): geng¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣ
    • Wade-Giles: chin¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jin
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕin⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gan¹
    • Yale: gān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gan¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kɐn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kîn
    • Hakka Romanization System: gin´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: gin¹
    • IPA: /kin²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kin / kun
    • Tâi-lô: kin / kun
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kyn, kwn
    • IPA (Taipei): /kin⁴⁴/, /kun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kin⁴⁴/, /kun⁴⁴/
    • Note: kin - Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Taichung, Yilan; kun - Quanzhou, Xiamen, Taipei, Hsinchu, Kinmen, Magong; kirn - Sanxia.
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: geng¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kṳng
    • IPA ^(key): /kɯŋ³³/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 巾
Mandarin	Beijing	/t͡ɕin⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/t͡ɕin⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/t͡ɕin²¹/
	Jinan	/t͡ɕiẽ²¹³/ 紅領～ /t͡ɕiẽ⁵⁵/ 毛～
	Qingdao	/t͡ɕiə̃²¹³/
	Zhengzhou	/t͡ɕin²⁴/
	Xi'an	/t͡ɕiẽ²¹/
	Xining	/t͡ɕiə̃⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/t͡ɕiŋ⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/t͡ɕĩn³¹/
	Ürümqi	/t͡ɕiŋ⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/t͡ɕin⁵⁵/
	Chengdu	/t͡ɕin⁵⁵/
	Guiyang	/t͡ɕin⁵⁵/
	Kunming	/t͡ɕĩ/
	Nanjing	/t͡ɕin³¹/
	Hefei	/t͡ɕin²¹/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡ɕiəŋ¹¹/
	Pingyao	/t͡ɕiŋ¹³/
	Hohhot	/t͡ɕĩŋ³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/t͡ɕiŋ⁵³/
	Suzhou	/t͡ɕin⁵⁵/
	Hangzhou	/t͡ɕin³³/
	Wenzhou	/t͡ɕaŋ³³/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡ɕiʌ̃³¹/
	Tunxi	/t͡ɕin¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡ɕin³³/
	Xiangtan	/t͡ɕin³³/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡ɕin⁴²/
Hakka	Meixian	/kin⁴⁴/
	Taoyuan	/kin²⁴/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/kɐn⁵³/
	Nanning	/kɐn⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/kɐn⁵⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/kun⁵⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/kyŋ⁴⁴/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/kœyŋ⁵⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/lɯŋ³³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/kin²³/ /fɛ³⁵/ 訓帕

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• Middle Chinese: /kˠiɪn/▼

Rime
Character	巾
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	眞 (44)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	Chongniu III
Fanqie	居銀切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠiɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚin/
Shao Rongfen	/kien/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kjin/
Li Rong	/kjĕn/
Wang Li	/kǐĕn/
Bernard Karlgren	/ki̯ĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jīn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*krən/

  (Zhengzhang): /*krɯn/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	巾
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jīn
Middle Chinese	‹ kin ›
Old Chinese	/*krən/
English	kerchief
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	巾
Reading #	1/1
No.	6550
Phonetic component	巾
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	巾
Old Chinese	/*krɯn/

DefinitionsEdit

巾

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CompoundsEdit

• 巾仔

ReferencesEdit

• (Min Nan) “Entry #211”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

巾

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. width

ReadingsEdit

• Goon: こん (kon)
• Kan’on: きん (kin)
• Kan’yōon: こ (ko)
• Kun: ふきん (fukin), おおい (ooi), はば (haba)

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

巾 • ‎(geon) (hangeul 건, revised geon, McCune-Reischauer kŏn)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

巾 (cân, khăn, khân)

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