刃

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See also: 刄 and 刅
刃 U+5203, 刃
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5203
← 刂
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 刄 →

刃 U+2F81E, 刃
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F81E
← 凵
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 㓟 →

Translingual

Japanese 刃
Simplified 刃
Traditional 刃

Alternative forms

Note the compositional differences between Traditional, Simplified, and Japanese Shinjitai in the placement of the additional stroke.

Han character

Stroke order
3 strokes

刃 (Kangxi radical 18, 刀+1, 3 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹戈 (SHI), four-corner 17420, composition ⿹刀丿(G) or ⿹刀丶(HTKV) or ⿻刀丶(J))

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 136, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1850
  • Dae Jaweon: page 304, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 320, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5203

Chinese

trad. 刃
simp. # 刃

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 刃
Shang Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (刃) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
涊 *nɯːnʔ, *njɯnʔ
紉 *nɯn
忍 *njɯnʔ
荵 *njɯnʔ
刃 *njɯns
認 *njɯns, *njɯŋs
仞 *njɯns
軔 *njɯns
韌 *njɯns
肕 *njɯns
牣 *njɯns
杒 *njɯns
訒 *njɯns

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 刀 (“knife”) + 丶.

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Rime
Character 刃
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 日 (38)
Final (韻) 眞 (43)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 而振切
Baxter nyinH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ȵiɪnH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ȵinH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ȵʑjenH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ȵinH/
Li
Rong 		/ȵiĕnH/
Wang
Li 		/ȵʑĭĕnH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ȵʑi̯ĕnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		rèn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jan6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 刃
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		rèn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ nyinH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*nə-s/
English edge of a blade

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 刃
Reading # 1/1
No. 10831
Phonetic
component 		刃
Rime
group 		文
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		刃
Old
Chinese 		/*njɯns/

Definitions

刃

  1. blade; knife edge
  2. sword; knife
  3. (literary) to kill with a sword or knife

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (刃):
  • → Japanese: 刃(じん) (jin)
  • → Korean: 인(刃) (in)

Japanese

Shinjitai 刃
Kyūjitai
刃󠄁
刃+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
刃󠄃
刃+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

刃

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Alternative forms

Kanji in this term
刃
は
Grade: S
kun’yomi
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Etymology 1

/pa/ → /ɸa/ → /ha/

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *pa.

Cognate with 歯 (ha, “tooth”). Possibly also related to 葉 (ha, “leaf”), but the pitch accents do not match. Compare English blade.

Pronunciation

Noun

刃(は) • (ha) 

  1. any sharp and thin cutting implement: a blade, edge
Derived terms
Derived terms
Idioms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
刃
やいば
Grade: S
kun’yomi

/jaki ɸa/ → /jakiba/ → /jaĩba/ → /jaiba/

イ音便(おんびん) (i-onbin) form of 焼き刃 (yakiba), a compound of 焼き (yaki, “burned, fired”) +‎ 刃 (ha, “edge, blade”, see above). The ha changes to ba as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

First attested in the Taiheiki of the late 1300s.

Pronunciation

Noun

刃(やいば) • (yaiba) ←や𛀆ば (yayiba)?

  1. a forged blade, such as a sword
  2. the wavy pattern formed in the metal on the surface of a forged blade
  3. a sword or similar edged weapon
  4. something sharp like a sword
  5. someone or something powerful
Derived terms
Derived terms
Idioms
Proverbs

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
刃
じん
Grade: S
kan’on

From Middle Chinese 刃 (MC nyinH).

Pronunciation

Noun

刃(じん) • (jin) 

  1. a blade, edge
Idioms

Affix

刃(じん) • (jin) 

  1. blade, edge
  2. bladed object (knife, sword, etc.)
  3. kill with a bladed object, put to the sword
Derived terms
Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 281 (paper), page 190 (digital)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

刃 (eum 인 (in))

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Old Japanese

Etymology

Cognate with 歯 (pa, “tooth”). Possibly also related to 葉 (pa, “leaf”). Compare English blade.

Noun

刃 (pa) (kana は)

  1. any sharp and thin cutting implement: a blade, edge

Descendants

  • Japanese: 刃 (ha, yaiba)

References

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Further reading

Vietnamese

Han character

刃: Hán Nôm readings: nhẫn, nhấn, nhận

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