吟

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See also: 呤
吟 U+541F, 吟
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-541F
← 吞
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 吠 →

Translingual

Han character

吟 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口人戈弓 (ROIN), four-corner 68027, composition ⿰口今)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 177, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3330
  • Dae Jaweon: page 395, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 591, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+541F

Chinese

trad. 吟
simp. # 吟
alternative forms 唫
訡
噖
䪩
㕂

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 吟
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (今) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
貪 *kʰl'uːm
嗿 *l̥ʰuːmʔ
僋 *l̥ʰuːms, *luːms
酓 *qʰɯːm, *qlamʔ, *qlɯːms
馠 *qʰɯːm
谽 *qʰɯːm
唅 *qʰɯːm, *ɡɯːms
含 *ɡɯːm
肣 *ɡɯːm, *ɡɯːmʔ
頷 *ɡɯːm, *ɡɯːmʔ
筨 *ɡɯːm
梒 *ɡɯːm
鋡 *ɡɯːm
莟 *ɡɯːmʔ, *ɡɯːms
琀 *ɡɯːms
浛 *ɡɯːms
盦 *qɯːm, *qaːb
韽 *qɯːm, *qrɯːms
玪 *krɯːm
妗 *qʰrɯːm, *kʰjam, *qʰlɯːm, *ɡrɯms
欦 *qʰrɯːmʔ, *qʰram, *kʰlam, *kʰlamʔ, *qʰlɯːm
黔 *ɡram, *ɡrɯm
鈐 *ɡram
鳹 *ɡram
雂 *ɡram, *ɡrɯm
念 *nɯːms
梣 *sɡɯm, *sɡrɯm
枔 *sɢrɯm
岑 *sɡrɯm
笒 *sɡrɯm, *ɡrɯms
涔 *sɡrɯm
侺 *ɡjɯms
今 *krɯm
黅 *krɯm
衿 *krɯm
衾 *kʰrɯm
坅 *kʰrɯmʔ
搇 *kʰrɯms
琴 *ɡrɯm
禽 *ɡrɯm
芩 *ɡrɯm
庈 *ɡrɯm
耹 *ɡrɯm
靲 *ɡrɯm
擒 *ɡrɯm
檎 *ɡrɯm
紟 *ɡrɯms
吟 *ŋɡrɯm, *ŋɡrɯms
訡 *ŋɡrɯm
廞 *qʰrɯm, *qʰrɯmʔ
陰 *qrɯm
霠
飲 *qrɯmʔ, *qrɯms
蔭 *qrɯms
廕 *qrɯms
矜 *ɡrɯn, *ɡɯn, *kɯŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋɡrɯm, *ŋɡrɯms) : semantic 口 + phonetic 今 (OC *krɯm).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 吟 吟
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 疑 (31) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 侵 (140) 侵 (140)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 魚金切 宜禁切
Baxter ngim ngimH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ŋˠiɪm/ /ŋˠiɪmH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ŋᵚim/ /ŋᵚimH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ŋiem/ /ŋiemH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ŋjim/ /ŋjimH/
Li
Rong 		/ŋjəm/ /ŋjəmH/
Wang
Li 		/ŋĭĕm/ /ŋĭĕmH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ŋi̯əm/ /ŋi̯əmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yín yìn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		ngam4 ngam6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 吟
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yín
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ngim ›
Old
Chinese 		/*m-qʰ(r)m/
English chant, intone

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 吟 吟
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 6618 6620
Phonetic
component 		今 今
Rime
group 		侵 侵
Rime
subdivision 		1 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		吟 吟
Old
Chinese 		/*ŋɡrɯm/ /*ŋɡrɯms/

Definitions

吟

  1. to recite; to chant
  2. to groan
  3. (literature) a type of poetry
  4. (of animals) to cry; to call

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

吟

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

吟 • (eum) (hangeul 음, revised eum, McCune–Reischauer ŭm)

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Tày

Han character

吟 (transliteration needed)

  1. Nôm form of gằm.

References

  • Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

Vietnamese

Han character

吟: Hán Việt readings: ngâm (魚(ngư)音(âm)切(thiết))
吟: Nôm readings: ngẫm, ngậm, ngâm, cầm, ngắm, gầm, gặm, gẫm, ngăm, ngăn, câm, căm, cằm, ngầm, ngẩm, ngợm

  1. chữ Hán form of ngâm (“to recite; to read in a singing voice”).

References

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Nguyễn (2014).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Nguyễn et al. (2009).
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 Trần (2004).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Hồ (1976).
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