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Translingual
Han character
侵 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 人尸一水 (OSME), four-corner 27247, composition ⿰亻𠬶)
Derived characters
- 𠸬, 寑, 葠, 䈜, 𩮕, 蘉, 𨃏, 𣷽, 𦺭, 𣋨, 𭁾, 𩤨, 𱆷
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 103, character 19
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 646
- Dae Jaweon: page 218, character 30
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 166, character 12
- Unihan data for U+4FB5
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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鋟
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*ʔsem, *sʰem, *sʰimʔ
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綅
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*sem, *ʔsim, *sʰim
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祲
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*ʔsim, *ʔsims
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埐
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*ʔsim, *zim
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梫
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*ʔsim, *sʰimʔ, *sʰrim
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濅
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*ʔsimʔ, *ʔsims
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浸
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*ʔsims, *sʰim
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侵
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*sʰim
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駸
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*sʰim, *sʰrim
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寢
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*sʰimʔ
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寑
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*sʰimʔ
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薓
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*srim
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According to Shuowen, an ideogrammic compound (會意/会意) : 人 (“person”) + 帚 (“broom”) + 又 (“hand”) – a person with a broom in hand.
Etymology 1
Two Sino-Tibetan etymologies are possible:
- Cognate with Tibetan སྟིམ་པ (stim pa, “to enter; to penetrate”), Tibetan ཐིམ་པ (thim pa, “to dissolve; to disappear; absorbed”), though the two terms agree just as well with 浸 (OC *ʔsims, *sʰim) (Schuessler, 2007), or
- From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *syim (“sweep”) (STEDT); cognate with Anong śim (“to sweep”), Lhao Vo śam (“to sweep”), Burmese သိမ်း (sim:, “to gather in; to take possession of”). Note the graph 侵 shows a broom (帚) which may carry a semantic function (Schuessler, 2007).
Pronunciation
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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Character
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侵
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Reading #
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1/1
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Modern Beijing (Pinyin)
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qīn
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Middle Chinese
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‹ tshim ›
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Old Chinese
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/*m/
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English
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invade
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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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Definitions
侵
- (literary) to gradually go in
- to invade; to encroach
- 侵略 ― qīnlüè ― to invade
- approaching
- 侵晨 ― qīnchén ― the approach of daybreak
- a surname
Compounds
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Definitions
侵 (Cantonese)
- to add in (water or other fluid)
- to allow (somebody) to join
佢哋唔侵我玩。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]- keoi5 dei6 m4 cam1 ngo5 waan4-2.
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Japanese
Shinjitai
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侵
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Kyūjitai
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侵󠄁 侵+󠄁 ? (Adobe-Japan1)
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侵󠄃 侵+󠄃 ? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji
侵
(common “Jōyō” kanji)
- to invade
- to raid
- to encroach, to trespass
- to violate
Readings
References
- ^ “侵”, in 漢字ぺディア (Kanjipedia) (in Japanese), 日本漢字能力検定協会, 2015–2024
Korean
Hanja
侵 (eum 침 (chim))
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Vietnamese
Han character
侵: Hán Nôm readings: xâm, xăm, xơm
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References