緡

See also: 缗

緡 U+7DE1, 緡 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7DE1 ← 締 [U+7DE0] CJK Unified Ideographs 緢 → [U+7DE2]

Translingual

Han character

緡 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 女火口心日 (VFRPA), four-corner 2796₄, composition ⿰糹昬)

1. fishing line
2. cord
3. string of coins

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 930, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27652
• Dae Jaweon: page 1368, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3432, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7DE1

Chinese

trad.		緡
simp.		缗
alternative forms		緍／𦈏

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
鍲	*mrɯn
抿	*mrɯn, *mrɯn, *mrɯnʔ
緡	*mrɯn
捪	*mrɯnʔ
湣	*mrɯnʔ
昏	*hmɯːn
婚	*hmɯːn
閽	*hmɯːn
惛	*hmɯːn, *hmɯːnʔ, *hmɯːns
棔	*hmɯːn
殙	*hmɯːn

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mín (min²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁴, fan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mín
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mín
    • Wade–Giles: min²
    • Yale: mín
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: min
    • Palladius: минь (minʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /min³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: man⁴, fan¹
    • Yale: màhn, fān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: man⁴, fan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: men⁴, fen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐn²¹/, /fɐn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: min

Rime
Character	緡
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	眞 (44)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	武巾切
Baxter	min
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠiɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚin/
Shao Rongfen	/mien/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mjin/
Li Rong	/mjĕn/
Wang Li	/mǐĕn/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯ĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mín
Expected Cantonese Reflex	man4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m-ru[n]/, /*m-run/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mrɯn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	緡	緡
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mín	mín
Middle Chinese	‹ min ›	‹ min ›
Old Chinese	/*m-ru[n]/ (dialect: *m-r- > *mr-)	/*m-run/ (dialect: *m-r- > *mr-)
English	wrap around	cord
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	緡
Reading #	1/1
No.	5526
Phonetic component	昏
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	珉
Old Chinese	/*mrɯn/

Definitions

緡

1. (archaic) fishing line

   鉤緡／钩缗  ―  gōu mín  ―  fishing hook and fishing line

   • 其釣維何？維絲伊緡。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     其钓维何？维丝伊缗。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on Bernhard Karlgren's version

     Qí diào wéi hé? Wéi sī yī mín. [Pinyin]

     What do you use for angling? Of silk is the line.

2. (archaic) cord for stringing coins

   1. (literary) string of coins; money
   2. (archaic) Classifier for a string of money, equals to 1000 文 (wén).

      • 初算緡錢。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
        初算缗钱。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

        From: The Book of Han, circa 1^st century CE

        Chū suàn mín qián. [Pinyin]

        (Emperor Wu of Han) started the levying of the "1000 wén" tax.

3. (historical) Name of a country at the northeast of what is now Jinxiang county, Shandong province.
4. (dialectal, obsolete) to apply; to cover

   • 緡、緜，施也。秦曰緡，趙曰緜，吴、越之間脱衣相被謂之緡緜。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     缗、绵，施也。秦曰缗，赵曰绵，吴、越之间脱衣相被谓之缗绵。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Yang Xiong, Fangyan, c. 1^st century BCE

     Mín, mián, shī yě. Qín yuē mín, zhào yuē mián, wú, yuè zhījiān tuōyī xiàng bèi wèi zhī mínmián. [Pinyin]

     Both mín and mián signify to apply—mín is used in the Qin region, and mián in Zhao. In Wu and Yue, mínmián refers to the act of taking off one's clothes and covering something with it.

5. a surname

Pronunciation 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 緡 – see 綿 (“silk floss; to continue; to be continuous; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 緜, which is in turn a variant form of 綿).

Pronunciation 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 緡 – see 愍. (This character is a variant form of 愍).

Japanese

Kanji

緡

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): びん (bin); みん (min); こん (kon)
• Kun: つりいと (tsurīto); なわ (nawa)

Korean

Hanja

緡 • (min) (hangeul 민, revised min, McCune–Reischauer min, Yale min)

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