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Chinese
Etymology
Ferlus (2012b) and Pain (2020) propose that 九真 (OC kuˀ-cin) transcribed *k.cin, a local autonym which is reflected in Puoc (ksiːŋ muːl) & Thavung (ktiːŋ²) meaning "human being, people", the latter from Proto-Vietic *kciːŋ, which consists of prefix *k- and *ciɲ (“leg, foot”); thus, "human beings" are "(those who are) on foot, those who stand on their feet."
Pain further suggests that "Cửu Chân might therefore have been inhabited by some ancestors of the Southern Vietic Thavung - Aheu."
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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九
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真
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
|
jiǔ
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zhēn
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Middle
Chinese
|
‹ kjuwX ›
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‹ tsyin ›
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Old
Chinese
|
/*uʔ/
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/*ti/
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| English
|
nine
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true, real
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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Proper noun
九真
- (～郡) Jiuzhen (an ancient commandery of China; located in modern-day Vietnam)
- (～鎮) Jiuzhen (a town in Tianmen, Hubei, China)
Vietnamese
Proper noun
九真
- chữ Hán form of Cửu Chân (“Jiuzhen Commandery”).