稹

稹 U+7A39, 稹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7A39 ← 稸 [U+7A38] CJK Unified Ideographs 稺 → [U+7A3A]

Translingual

Han character

稹 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+10, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹木十月金 (HDJBC), four-corner 2498₆, composition ⿰禾真 or ⿰禾眞)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 857, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25212
• Dae Jaweon: page 1283, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2621, character 19
• Unihan data for U+7A39

Chinese

simp. and trad.		稹

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
寘	*tjels
䡩	*kʰriːn
黰	*ʔriːn, *ʔljinʔ
顛	*tiːn, *tʰiːns
滇	*tiːn, *tʰiːns, *diːn
齻	*tiːn
槙	*tiːn, *tjinʔ
瘨	*tiːn
傎	*tiːn
蹎	*tiːn
厧	*tiːn
巔	*tiːn
癲	*tiːn
瑱	*tʰiːns, *tins
填	*diːn, *diːns, *tin, *tins
窴	*diːn, *diːns
闐	*diːn, *diːns
磌	*diːn, *tjin
鷏	*diːn
嗔	*diːn, *tʰjin
搷	*diːn
鎮	*tin, *tins
縝	*tʰin, *ʔljinʔ, *tʰjin
真	*ʔljin
禛	*tjin
稹	*ʔljin, *ʔljinʔ
蒖	*tjin
鬒	*ʔljinʔ
瞋	*tʰjin
謓	*tʰjin
慎	*djins

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	稹	稹
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): /*ti[n]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔljin/, /*ʔljinʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	稹
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhěn
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyinX ›
Old Chinese	/*ti[n]ʔ/
English	dense, compact
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	稹	稹
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	17070	17074
Phonetic component	眞	眞
Rime group	眞	眞
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime		軫
Old Chinese	/*ʔljin/	/*ʔljinʔ/
Notes	側鄰切校改

Definitions

稹

1. ^† dense vegetation
2. ^† Alternative form of 縝／缜 (zhěn)

Japanese

Kanji

稹

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しん (shin)、てん (ten)、でん (den)、へん (hen)
• Kun: しげる (shigeru)

Korean

Hanja

稹 • (jin) (hangeul 진, revised jin, McCune–Reischauer chin, Yale cin)

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