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津
津
Translingual
Han character
津 (radical 85 水+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 水中手 (ELQ), four-corner 35107, composition ⿰氵聿)
See also
References
- KangXi: page 621, character 9
 - Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17396
 - Dae Jaweon: page 1017, character 7
 - Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1616, character 11
 - Unihan data for U+6D25
 
Chinese
| 
simp. and trad. | 
津 | |
|---|---|---|
| alt. forms | 
𣸁 𦪉  | 
|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (津) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 葏 | *ʔslen | 
| 津 | *ʔslin | 
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔslin) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 𦘔 – a ferry crossing. 𦘔 has been simplified into the unrelated 聿 (OC *b·lud) in the clerical script.
Etymology
From 濟 (OC *ʔsliːls, “to ferry”) + nominal suffix *-n (Schuessler, 2007).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
 - Cantonese (Jyutping): zeon1
 - Min Dong (BUC): cĭng
 - Min Nan (POJ): tin / chin
 - Wu (Wiktionary): jin (T1)
 
-  Mandarin
-  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
 - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣ
 - Wade-Giles: chin1
 - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jin
 - IPA (key): /t͡ɕin⁵⁵/
 
 
 -  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
 -  Cantonese
-  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: zeon1
 - Yale: jēun
 - Cantonese Pinyin: dzoen1
 - IPA (key): /t͡ɕɵn⁵⁵/
 
 
 -  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
 -  Min Dong
-  (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: cĭng
 - IPA (key): /t͡siŋ⁵⁵/
 
 
 -  (Fuzhou)
 -  Min Nan
-  (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tin
 - Tâi-lô: tin
 - Phofsit Daibuun: dyn
 - IPA (Xiamen): /tin⁴⁴/
 - IPA (Quanzhou): /tin³³/
 - IPA (Taipei): /tin⁴⁴/
 - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tin⁴⁴/
 
 -  (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chin
 - Tâi-lô: tsin
 - Phofsit Daibuun: cyn
 - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕin⁴⁴/
 - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕin³³/
 - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕin⁴⁴/
 - IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕin⁴⁴/
 - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕin⁴⁴/
 - Note: (excluding Zhangzhou) tin - vernacular; chin - literary.
 
 
 -  (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
 -  Wu
-  (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: jin (T1)
 - IPA (key): /t͡ɕɪɲ⁵³/
 
 
 -  (Shanghainese)
 
-  Dialectal data▼
 
| Variety | Location | 津 | 
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /t͡ɕin⁵⁵/ | 
| Harbin | 
/t͡ɕyn⁴⁴/  /t͡ɕiŋ⁴⁴/ /t͡ɕin⁴⁴/  | 
|
| Tianjin | /t͡ɕiŋ²¹/ | |
| Jinan | 
/t͡ɕiẽ²¹³/  /t͡ɕyẽ²¹³/  | 
|
| Qingdao | /t͡siə̃⁵⁵/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /t͡sin²⁴/ | |
| Xi'an | 
/t͡ɕiẽ²¹/ ~~有味 /t͡ɕiŋ²¹/ 天~  | 
|
| Xining | /t͡ɕiə̃⁴⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /t͡ɕiŋ⁴⁴/ | |
| Lanzhou | /t͡ɕiñ³¹/ | |
| Ürümqi | /t͡ɕiŋ⁴⁴/ | |
| Wuhan | /t͡ɕin⁵⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /t͡ɕin⁵⁵/ | |
| Guiyang | /t͡ɕin⁵⁵/ | |
| Kunming | /t͡ɕĩ⁴⁴/ | |
| Nanjing | /t͡sin³¹/ | |
| Hefei | /t͡ɕin²¹/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /t͡ɕiəŋ¹¹/ | 
| Pingyao | /t͡ɕiŋ¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /t͡ɕiŋ̃³¹/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /t͡ɕiŋ⁵³/ | 
| Suzhou | /t͡sin⁵⁵/ | |
| Hangzhou | /t͡ɕin³³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /t͡saŋ³³/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /t͡siʌ̃³¹/ | 
| Tunxi | /t͡ɕiɛ¹¹/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /t͡sin³³/ | 
| Xiangtan | /t͡sin³³/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /t͡ɕin⁴²/ | 
| Hakka | Meixian | /t͡sin⁴⁴/ | 
| Taoyuan | /t͡sin²⁴/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /t͡søn⁵³/ | 
| Nanning | /t͡sɐn⁵⁵/ | |
| Hong Kong | /t͡søn⁵⁵/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | 
/t͡sin⁵⁵/  /tin⁵⁵/  | 
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /t͡siŋ⁴⁴/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /t͡seiŋ⁵⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /t͡siŋ³³/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /t͡sin²³/ | 
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 津 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| Initial (聲) | 精 (13) | 
| Final (韻) | 眞 (43) | 
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | 
| Openness (開合) | Open | 
| Division (等) | III | 
| Fanqie | 將鄰切 | 
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang  | 
/t͡siɪn/ | 
| Pan Wuyun  | 
/t͡sin/ | 
| Shao Rongfen  | 
/t͡sjen/ | 
| Edwin Pulleyblank  | 
/t͡sin/ | 
| Li Rong  | 
/t͡siĕn/ | 
| Wang Li  | 
/t͡sĭĕn/ | 
| Bernard Karlgren  | 
/t͡si̯ĕn/ | 
| Expected Mandarin Reflex  | 
jīn | 
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 津 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin)  | 
jīn | 
| Middle Chinese  | 
‹ tsin › | 
| Old Chinese  | 
/*[ts]i[n]/ | 
| English | ford (n.) | 
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: 					* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;  | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 津 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| No. | 6725 | 
| Phonetic component  | 
津 | 
| Rime group  | 
眞 | 
| Rime subdivision  | 
1 | 
| Corresponding MC rime  | 
津 | 
| Old Chinese  | 
/*ʔslin/ | 
Definitions
津
Compounds
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Japanese
Kanji
津
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Readings
Compounds
Proper noun
| Kanji in this term | 
|---|
| 津 | 
| 
つ Grade: S  | 
| kun'yomi | 
Korean
Hanja
津 • (jin) (hangeul 진, revised jin, McCune-Reischauer chin, Yale cin)
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