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Translingual

Han character

(radical 61 +6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 田大心 (WKP), four-corner 60330, composition)

  1. kindness, mercy, charity

References

  • KangXi: page 385, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10591
  • Dae Jaweon: page 716, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2290, character 18
  • Unihan data for U+6069

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qrils
*qiːn, *qin
*qiːn
*qiːn, *qiːns, *qiːd
*qɯːn
*qɯːn
*qin
*qin
*qin
*qin
*qin
*qin
*qin, *qrin
*qin
*qin

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ən⁵⁵/
Harbin /ən⁴⁴/
/nən⁴⁴/
Tianjin /nən²¹/
Jinan /ŋẽ²¹³/
Qingdao /ɣə̃²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ən²⁴/
Xi'an /ŋẽ²¹/
Xining /nə̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /əŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ə̃n³¹/
Ürümqi /ɤŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /ŋən⁵⁵/
Chengdu /ŋən⁵⁵/
Guiyang /ŋen⁵⁵/
/en⁵⁵/
Kunming /ə̃⁴⁴/
Nanjing /ən³¹/
Hefei /ʐən²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /ɣəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /ŋəŋ¹³/
Hohhot /ŋə̃ŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /əŋ⁵³/
Suzhou /ən⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ʔen³³/
Wenzhou /ø³³/
Hui Shexian /ŋʌ̃³¹/
Tunxi /ŋɛ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ŋən³³/
Xiangtan /ŋən³³/
Gan Nanchang /ŋiɛn⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /en⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /en²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jɐn⁵³/
Nanning /ɐn⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /jɐn⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /un⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /ouŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /aiŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ɯŋ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /un²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (34)
Final () (53)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔən/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔən/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔən/
Li
Rong
/ʔən/
Wang
Li
/ən/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
ēn

Definitions

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Compounds

References


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Noun

(hiragana おん, romaji on)

  1. obligation

Korean

Hanja

(eun)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul):  (revised: eun, McCune-Reischauer: ǔn, Yale: un)
  • Name (hangeul): 은혜 (revised: eunhye, McCune-Reischauer: ǔnhye, Yale: unhyey)
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References


Vietnamese

Han character

(ân, ơn)

Derived terms