妊

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See also: 姙
妊 U+598A, 妊
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-598A
← 妉
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 妋 →

Translingual

Han character

妊 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 女竹土 (VHG), four-corner 42414, composition ⿰女壬)

  1. conceive
  2. be pregnant

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 256, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6072
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1031, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+598A

Chinese

trad. 妊
simp. # 妊

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (壬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
紝 *nɯm, *njɯm, *njɯms
鵀 *nɯm, *njɯm, *njɯms
拰 *nɯmʔ
賃 *nɯms
任 *njɯm, *njɯms
壬 *l̥ʰeːŋʔ, *njɯm
恁 *njɯm, *njɯmʔ
銋 *njɯm, *njɯmʔ
荏 *njɯmʔ
餁 *njɯmʔ
栠 *njɯmʔ
袵 *njɯmʔ
飪 *njɯmʔ
妊 *njɯms
衽 *njɯms

Etymology

Cognate with 任 (OC *njɯm, *njɯms, “to be burdened; to be loaded”). See there for more.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 妊
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 日 (38)
Final (韻) 侵 (139)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 汝鴆切
Baxter nyimH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ȵiɪmH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ȵimH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ȵʑjemH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ȵimH/
Li
Rong 		/ȵiəmH/
Wang
Li 		/ȵʑĭĕmH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ȵʑi̯əmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		rèn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jam6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 妊
Reading # 1/1
No. 10822
Phonetic
component 		壬
Rime
group 		侵
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		妊
Old
Chinese 		/*njɯms/

Definitions

妊

  1. pregnant

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

妊

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. pregnancy

Readings

  • Go-on: にん (nin, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: じん (jin)
  • Kun: はらむ (haramu, 妊む)

Korean

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 妊 (MC nyimH).

Historical Readings
Dongguk Jeongun Reading
Dongguk Jeongun, 1448 ᅀᅵᆷ〮 (Yale: zím)
Middle Korean
Text Eumhun
Gloss (hun) Reading
Hunmong Jahoe, 1527 ᄇᆡᆯ (Yale: pòyl) ᅀᅵᆷ〯 (Yale: zǐm)

Pronunciation

  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key):
  • Phonetic hangul:
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

妊 (eumhun 아이 밸 임 (ai bael im))

  1. hanja form? of 임 (“pregnancy”)

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

妊: Hán Nôm readings: nhâm

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