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欣

See also: 忻
欣 U+6B23, 欣
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6B23
← 欢
[U+6B22] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 欤 →
[U+6B24]

Translingual

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Han character

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欣 (Kangxi radical 76, 欠+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹中弓人 (HLNO), four-corner 77282, composition ⿰斤欠)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 566, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16008
  • Dae Jaweon: page 954, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2135, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+6B23

Chinese

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simp. and trad.
 欣
alternative forms 訢／䜣
忻
惞

Glyph origin

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Characters in the same phonetic series (斤) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蘄 *ɡɯ, *kɯl, *ɡɯn
祈 *ɡɯl
頎 *ɡɯl
旂 *ɡɯl
圻 *ɡɯl, *ŋɡɯːn, *ŋɡɯn
蚚 *ɡɯl, *ɡɯːls
岓 *ɡɯl
玂 *ɡɯl
沂 *ŋɡɯl
掀 *qʰan
釿 *ŋɡrɯnʔ, *ŋkɯn
齗 *ŋɡrɯnʔ, *ŋɡɯn
听 *ŋɡrɯnʔ, *ŋɡɯnʔ
垽 *ŋrɯns, *qɯns
斤 *kɯn, *kɯns
菦 *kɯnʔ
靳 *kɯns
劤 *kɯns
勁 *kɯns, *keŋs
赾 *kʰɯnʔ
芹 *ɡɯn
近 *ɡɯnʔ, *ɡɯns
斦 *ŋɡɯn
欣 *qʰɯn
忻 *qʰɯn
昕 *qʰɯn
訢 *qʰɯn
炘 *qʰɯn, *qʰɯns
邤 *qʰɯn
庍 *qʰɯns, *mpreːɡs
焮 *qʰɯns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qʰɯn): phonetic 斤 (OC *kɯn, *kɯns) + semantic 欠.

Etymology 1

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Probably from the same word family as 喜 (OC *qʰlɯʔ) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • hin - literary;
  • him/herm - vernacular.
Note:
  • heng1 - Chaozhou, Shantou;
  • hng1 - Chaozhou.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 欣
Mandarin Beijing /ɕin⁵⁵/
Harbin /ɕin⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ɕin²¹/
Jinan /ɕiẽ²¹³/
Qingdao /siə̃²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ɕin²⁴/
Xi'an /ɕiẽ²¹/
Xining /ɕiə̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ɕiŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ɕĩn³¹/
Ürümqi /ɕiŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /ɕin⁵⁵/
Chengdu /ɕin⁵⁵/
Guiyang /ɕin⁵⁵/
Kunming /ɕĩ⁴⁴/
Nanjing /ɕin³¹/
Hefei /ɕin²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕiəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /ɕiŋ¹³/
Hohhot /ɕĩŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɕiŋ⁵³/
Suzhou /ɕin⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ɕin³³/
Wenzhou /ɕaŋ³³/
Hui Shexian /ɕiʌ̃³¹/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /ɕin³³/
Xiangtan /ɕin³³/
Gan Nanchang /ɕin⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /hiun⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /huŋ²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jɐn⁵³/
Nanning /jɐn⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /jɐn⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /him⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /hyŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /xeiŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /hɯŋ³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /hin²³/
/huaŋ²³/ 訓歡
Rime
Character 欣
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 欣 (57)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 許斤切
Baxter xj+n
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/hɨn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/hɨn/
Shao
Rongfen 		/xiən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/hɨn/
Li
Rong 		/xiən/
Wang
Li 		/xĭən/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/xi̯ən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xīn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jan1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 欣
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		xīn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ xjɨn ›
Old
Chinese 		/*qʰər/
English rejoice

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 欣
Reading # 1/1
No. 6665
Phonetic
component 		斤
Rime
group 		文
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		欣
Old
Chinese 		/*qʰɯn/

Definitions

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欣

  1. happy; joyous; delighted
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to submit willingly; to submit happily
  3. used in 欣欣 (xīnxīn, “lush”)
  4. a surname

Compounds

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Etymology 2

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For pronunciation and definitions of 欣 – see 鑫 (“abundant in wealth; prosperous”).
(This character is the second-round simplified form of 鑫).
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References

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  • “欣”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
  • 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “欣”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 237.

Japanese

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Kanji

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欣

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. to rejoice
    Synonym: 忻

Readings

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Korean

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Hanja

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欣 • (heun) (hangeul 흔, revised heun, McCune–Reischauer hŭn, Yale hun)

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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欣: Hán Nôm readings: hân, hơn, hoen, hớn, hăng

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References

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  • Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
  • Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
  • Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
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