畛

畛 U+755B, 畛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-755B ← 畚 [U+755A] CJK Unified Ideographs 畜 → [U+755C]

Translingual

Han character

畛 (Kangxi radical 102, 田+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 田人竹竹 (WOHH), four-corner 6802₂, composition ⿰田㐱)

1. border, boundary
2. raised path

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 761, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21810
• Dae Jaweon: page 1171, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2536, character 11
• Unihan data for U+755B

Chinese

simp. and trad.		畛
alternative forms		𤱏 軫／轸 𤱼 𤱥

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (疹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
沴	*rɯːls
趁	*nlanʔ, *l̥ʰɯns, *l'ɯn
紾	*ʔl'anʔ, *kljɯnʔ
跈	*nlɯːnʔ, *l'ɯːnʔ
殄	*l'ɯːnʔ
抮	*hlɯːnʔ
駗	*rɯn, *kljɯnʔ
珍	*ʔl'ɯn
診	*l'ɯns, *kljɯnʔ
畛	*kljɯn, *kljɯnʔ
疹	*kljɯnʔ
軫	*kljɯnʔ
胗	*kljɯnʔ, *klɯnʔ
袗	*kljɯnʔ, *kljɯns
眕	*kljɯnʔ
飻	*l̥ʰɯːd
餮	*r̥ʰɯːd

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhěn (zhen³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zan²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhěn
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhěn
    • Wade–Giles: chên³
    • Yale: jěn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jeen
    • Palladius: чжэнь (čžɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂən²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zan²
    • Yale: ján
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzan²
    • Guangdong Romanization: zen²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐn³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyin, tsyinX

Rime
Character	畛	畛
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	章 (23)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	眞 (43)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	側鄰切	章忍切
Baxter	tsyin	tsyinX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiɪn/	/t͡ɕiɪnX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕin/	/t͡ɕinX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕjen/	/t͡ɕjenX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cin/	/cinX/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiĕn/	/t͡ɕiĕnX/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭĕn/	/t͡ɕĭĕnX/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ĕn/	/t͡ɕi̯ĕnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhēn	zhěn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zan1	zan2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tə[n]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kljɯn/, /*kljɯnʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	畛
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhěn
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyinX ›
Old Chinese	/*tə[n]ʔ/
English	path between fields
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	畛	畛
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	17095	17098
Phonetic component	疹	疹
Rime group	文	文
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime		軫
Old Chinese	/*kljɯn/	/*kljɯnʔ/
Notes	由側鄰切校改

Definitions

畛

1. (literary) path between farm fields
2. (literary) boundary; demarcation
3. (literary) to pray to

Compounds

• 不分畛域 (bùfēnzhěnyù)
• 畛域 (zhěnyù)
• 畛畦
• 畦畛
• 異畛／异畛

 

Japanese

Kanji

畛

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: しん (shin)
• Kan-on: しん (shin)
• Kun: あぜ (aze, 畛)

Korean

Hanja

畛 • (jin) (hangeul 진)

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