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尋

尋

See also: 寻

Translingual

Note that top hand is not in 又 shape, but rather resembles 彐; this is an earlier form of hand (fingers); see etymology of 又.

Han character

尋 (radical 41 寸+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 尸一一口戈 (SMMRI), four-corner 17346, composition ⿳彐⿰工口寸)

References

  • KangXi: page 295, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7447
  • Dae Jaweon: page 586, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 510, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5C0B

Chinese

trad. 尋
simp. 寻

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 尋
Mandarin Beijing /ɕyn³⁵/
/ɕin³⁵/
Harbin /ɕyn²⁴/ ～找
/ɕin²⁴/ ～思
Tianjin /ɕin⁴⁵/
/ɕyn⁴⁵/
Jinan /ɕyẽ⁴²/
Qingdao /syə̃⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /syn⁴²/
Xi'an /ɕiẽ²⁴/
Xining /ɕiə̃²⁴/
Yinchuan /ɕyŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /ɕỹn⁵³/
Ürümqi /ɕyŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /ɕin²¹³/
Chengdu /ɕyn³¹/
Guiyang /ɕin²¹/
Kunming /ɕĩ¹/
Nanjing /t͡sʰin²⁴/
/sin²⁴/
/syn²⁴/
Hefei /ɕin⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕiəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /ɕiŋ¹³/
Hohhot /ɕĩŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ʑiŋ²³/
Suzhou /zin¹³/
Hangzhou /d͡ʑin²¹³/
Wenzhou /zaŋ³¹/
Hui Shexian /t͡sʰiʌ̃⁴⁴/
Tunxi /t͡sʰin⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /t͡sin¹³/
Xiangtan /d͡zin¹²/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰin²⁴/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰim¹¹/
Taoyuan /t͡sʰim¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰɐm²¹/
Nanning /t͡sʰɐm²¹/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰɐm²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /sim³⁵/
/siam³⁵/ 量词
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /siŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡seiŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sʰim⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /sim³¹/
Rime
Character 尋
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 邪 (17)
Final (韻) 侵 (139)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 徐林切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ziɪm/
Pan
Wuyun		 /zim/
Shao
Rongfen		 /zjem/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /zim/
Li
Rong		 /ziəm/
Wang
Li		 /zĭĕm/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /zi̯əm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xín
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 尋 尋
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xún xún
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ zim › ‹ zim ›
Old
Chinese		 /*sə-l[ə]m/ (< *-um ?) /*sə-l[ə]m/
English warm up measure of 8 chǐ 尺

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 尋
Reading # 1/1
No. 14127
Phonetic
component		 尋
Rime
group		 侵
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 尋
Old
Chinese		 /*ljum/
Notes 象度兩臂間距，說文加彡聲

Definitions

尋

  1. to seek, search, look for
    喂，儂尋啥人？ [Shanghainese, trad.]
    喂，侬寻啥人？ [Shanghainese, simp.]
    Hello, who are you looking for?
  2. ancient

Japanese

Kanji

尋

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. fathom

Readings

Korean

Hanja

尋 • ‎(sim) (hangeul 심)

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Vietnamese

Han character

尋 (tầm, tìm, tùm, chầm)

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Etymology

Historical forms of the character 尋
Oracle bone script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (尋) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
襑 *l̥ʰuːmʔ, *ljum
憳 *l̥ʰuːmʔ
蕁 *l'uːm
撏 *zluːm, *ɦljom, *ljum
燖 *ljom, *ljum
尋 *ljum
潯 *ljum
樳 *ljum
鄩 *ljum

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 工 ‎(“work”) + 口 ‎(“mouth, talk”) + 又 ‎(“hand”) – to seek out, with hands and mouth (asking).

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