筠

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筠 U+7B60, 筠
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B60
← 筟
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 筡 →

Translingual

Han character

筠 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹土心一 (HGPM), four-corner 88127, composition ⿱𥫗均)

  1. bamboo skin
  2. bamboo
  3. name of a Chinese prefecture

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 884, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26032
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1313, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2971, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+7B60

Chinese

trad. 筠
simp. # 筠

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (匀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
枃 *skins
笉 *skʰinʔ
郇 *ɡʷreːn, *sqʰʷin
絢 *qʰʷiːns
眴 *qʰʷiːns, *ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷin, *qʰʷjins, *ŋʷjin
盷 *ɡʷiːn
訇 *ɡʷiːn, *qʰʷreːŋ
迿 *ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷins
姰 *ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷin
畇 *l'iːŋ, *sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin, *ɢʷin
荀 *sqʰʷin
詢 *sqʰʷin
洵 *sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin
恂 *sqʰʷin
峋 *sqʰʷin
珣 *sqʰʷin
槆 *sqʰʷin
筍 *sqʰʷinʔ
箰 *sqʰʷinʔ
旬 *sɢʷin
殉 *sɢʷins
徇 *sɢʷins
侚 *sɢʷins
均 *kʷin
鈞 *kʷin
袀 *kʷin
汮 *kʷin, *kʷrin
呁 *kʷins
筠 *ɡʷin
荺 *ɢʷin, *ɡʷinʔ
匀 *ɢʷin
韵 *ɢʷins
輷 *qʰʷreːŋ, *qʰʷreːŋs
揈 *qʰʷreːŋ
鍧 *qʰʷreːŋ
渹 *qʰʷreːŋ
赹 *ɡʷeŋ
憌 *ɡʷeŋ
惸 *ɡʷeŋ
咰 *sqʰʷrid

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡʷin): semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 均 (OC *kʷin).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 筠
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 眞 (45)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 爲贇切
Baxter hwin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦˠiuɪn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦʷᵚin/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣiuen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦjin/
Li
Rong 		/ɣjuĕn/
Wang
Li 		/ɣǐĕn/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/i̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yún
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		wan4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 筠
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yún
Middle
Chinese 		‹ hwin ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ʷri/
English rind of bamboo

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 筠
Reading # 1/1
No. 16409
Phonetic
component 		匀
Rime
group 		眞
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		筠
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡʷin/
Notes 見史記原列眞韻

Definitions

筠

  1. (literary) skin of bamboo
  2. (literary) bamboo

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Definitions

筠

  1. (historical) Jun prefecture

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

筠

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): いん (in)、うん (un)
  • Kun: たけ (take)

Korean

Hanja

筠 • (gyun) (hangeul 균, revised gyun, McCune–Reischauer kyun, Yale kyun)

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