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引

引 U+5F15, 引
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F15
← 弔
[U+5F14] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 弖 →
[U+5F16]

TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

引 (radical 57, 弓+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 弓中 (NL), four-corner 12200, composition ⿰弓丨)

Derived charactersEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • KangXi: page 356, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9699
  • Dae Jaweon: page 672, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 988, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5F15

ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.
 引

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 引
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
     
Characters in the same phonetic series (引) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
紖 *l'inʔ
矧 *hlinʔ
訠 *hlinʔ
弞 *hlinʔ, *linʔ
引 *linʔ, *lins
蚓 *linʔ
鈏 *linʔ, *lins
靷 *linʔ, *lins

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 弓 (“bow”) + 丨 (“line”) – the line radical represents a bow string which is pulled.

PronunciationEdit

Note:
  • íⁿ - vernacular;
  • ín - literary.
Rime
Character 引 引
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 以 (36) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 眞 (43) 眞 (43)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 余忍切 羊晉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/jiɪnX/ /jiɪnH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/jinX/ /jinH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/jenX/ /jenH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/jinX/ /jinH/
Li
Rong 		/iĕnX/ /iĕnH/
Wang
Li 		/jĭĕnX/ /jĭĕnH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/i̯ĕnX/ /i̯ĕnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yǐn yìn
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 引 引
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yǐn yǐn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ yinX › ‹ yinH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*li[n]ʔ/ /*li[n]ʔ-s/
English draw the bow draw the bow

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 引 引
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 15306 15312
Phonetic
component 		引 引
Rime
group 		眞 眞
Rime
subdivision 		1 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		引 𦙍
Old
Chinese 		/*linʔ/ /*lins/

DefinitionsEdit

引

  1. to pull, draw out, attract
  2. to stretch
  3. to lead
  4. to induce
  5. to recommend
  6. to reference, to quote
  7. to leave
  8. (music) prelude

CompoundsEdit

Derived terms from 引

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

引

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. pull
  2. tug
  3. admit

ReadingsEdit

CompoundsEdit

AntonymsEdit

  • 押 (“push”)

Derived termsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Kanji in this term
引
いん
Grade: 2
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 引 (MC jiɪnX, jiɪnH).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

引 (hiragana いん, rōmaji in)

  1. the preface to a book; introduction; foreword

AffixEdit

引 (hiragana いん, rōmaji in)

  1. pull; draw out; stretch
  2. lead; induce
  3. bear; undertake; accept
  4. quote; reference
  5. leave

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

引 • (in)

  • Eumhun:
    • Sound (hangeul): 인 (revised: in, McCune–Reischauer: in, Yale: in)
    • Name (hangeul): 끌
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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

引 (dẫn, dợn, giỡn, dận, giận)

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