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晉

晉

See also: 晋

Translingual

Shinjitai 晋
Simplified 晋
Traditional 晉

Han character

晉 (radical 72 日+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一戈戈日 (MIIA), four-corner 10601, composition ⿱⿳一⿰厶厶一日)

  1. advance, increase
  2. promote
  3. Chinese feudal state of Jin (11th century BCE–376 BCE), a state of the Zhou Dynasty in northern China
  4. Chinese Jin dynasty (265-420)
  5. 35th hexagram of the I Ching

References

  • KangXi: page 494, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13898
  • Dae Jaweon: page 860, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1507, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6649

Chinese

trad. 晉
simp. 晋

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (晉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鄑 *ʔsel
戩 *ʔsenʔ
榗 *ʔsens
晉 *ʔsins
縉 *ʔsins
搢 *ʔsins
瑨 *ʔsins

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 晉
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕin⁵¹/
Harbin /t͡ɕin⁵³/
Tianjin /t͡ɕin⁵³/
Jinan /t͡ɕiẽ²¹/
Qingdao /t͡siə̃⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡sin³¹²/
Xi'an /t͡ɕiẽ⁴⁴/
Xining /t͡ɕiə̃²¹³/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕiŋ¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕiñ¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕiŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡ɕin³⁵/
Chengdu /t͡ɕin¹³/
Guiyang /t͡ɕin²¹³/
Kunming /t͡ɕĩ⁴⁴/
Nanjing /t͡sin⁴⁴/
Hefei /t͡ɕin⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕiəŋ⁴⁵/
Pingyao /t͡ɕiŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /t͡ɕĩŋ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /t͡ɕiŋ³⁵/
Suzhou /t͡sin⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /t͡ɕin⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡saŋ⁴²/
Hui Shexian /t͡siʌ̃³²⁴/
Tunxi /t͡sin⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /t͡sin⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /t͡sin⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕin⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sin³¹/
Taoyuan /t͡sin³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡søn³³/
Nanning /t͡sɐn³³/
Hong Kong /t͡søn³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡sin²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sɛiŋ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡seiŋ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡siŋ²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /t͡sin³⁵/
Rime
Character 晉
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 眞 (43)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 即刃切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡siɪnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sinH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sjenH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sinH/
Li
Rong		 /t͡siĕnH/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sĭĕnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡si̯ĕnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jìn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 晉
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jìn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsinH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tsi[n]-s/
English Jìn (place name)

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 晉
Reading # 1/1
No. 6770
Phonetic
component		 晉
Rime
group		 眞
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 晉
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsins/

Definitions

晉

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Japanese

Kanji

晉

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 晋)

  1. to proceed

Readings

Korean

Hanja

晉 • ‎(jin) (hangeul 진, revised jin, McCune-Reischauer chin, Yale cin)

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Vietnamese

Han character

晉 (tấn, tắn, tớn)

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