脣

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See also: 唇
脣 U+8123, 脣
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8123
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Translingual

Han character

脣 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 一女月 (MVB), four-corner 71227, composition ⿸辰⺼ or ⿱辰⺼)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 983, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29526
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1436, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2076, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+8123

Chinese

trad. 脣/唇*
simp. 唇*

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (辰) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
辴 *tʰɯl, *tʰɯnʔ, *tʰɯn
屒 *tɯnʔ, *djɯn
振 *tjɯn, *tjɯns
侲 *tjɯn, *tjɯn
桭 *tjɯn, *djɯn
唇 *tjɯn, *ɦljun
帪 *tjɯn
賑 *tjɯnʔ, *tjɯns
裖 *tjɯnʔ
敐 *tjɯnʔ, *djɯn
震 *tjɯn
娠 *tjɯns, *hljɯn
蜃 *djɯns, *djɯnʔ, *djins
辰 *djɯn
晨 *djɯn, *ɦljɯn
宸 *djɯn
鷐 *djɯn
麎 *djɯn
祳 *djɯnʔ
脤 *djɯnʔ
鋠 *djɯnʔ
磭 *ŋrɯnʔ, *ŋ̊ʰjaɡ, *ŋaɡ
陙 *djun
脣 *ɦljun
漘 *ɦljun

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɦljun) : phonetic 辰 (OC *djɯn) + semantic 肉 (“flesh”).

Etymology

Original meaning was apparently “edge”. Related to 漘 (OC *ɦljun, “bank of a river”), 宸 (OC *djɯn, “eave (i.e. edge of a roof)”) and 胗 (OC *kljɯnʔ, *klɯnʔ, “ulcer of the lip”) (Wang, 1982).

Further etymology is not clear. The various theories are:

Pronunciation

Note:
  • tûn - vernacular;
  • sûn - literary.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 脣 (唇)
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂʰuən³⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂuən²⁴/
Tianjin /ʈ͡ʂʰuən⁴⁵/
/t͡sʰuən⁴⁵/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂʰuẽ⁴²/
Qingdao /ʈ͡ʂʰuə̃⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰuən⁴²/
Xi'an /p͡fʰẽ²⁴/
Xining /fə̃²⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂʰuŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /p͡fʰə̃n⁵³/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂʰuŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /ɕyn²¹³/
Chengdu /suən³¹/
Guiyang /suen²¹/
Kunming /ʂuə̃¹/
Nanjing /ʂun²⁴/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂʰuən⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰuəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /suŋ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sʰũŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /zəŋ²³/
Suzhou /zən¹³/
Hangzhou /d͡zz̩ʷen²¹³/
Wenzhou /joŋ³¹/
Hui Shexian /ɕiʌ̃⁴⁴/
/ɕyʌ̃⁴⁴/
Tunxi /ɕyan⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /ʂən¹³/
Xiangtan /ʂən¹²/
Gan Nanchang /sun⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /sun¹¹/
Taoyuan /ʃun¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /søn²¹/
Nanning /sɐn²¹/
Hong Kong /søn²¹/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /sun³⁵/
/tun³⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /suŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /sœyŋ²¹/
/œyŋ²¹/
Shantou (Teochew) /tuŋ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /ʔdun³¹/
Rime
Character 脣
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 船 (27)
Final (韻) 諄 (47)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 食倫切
Baxter zywin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʑiuɪn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʑʷin/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʑjuen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʑwin/
Li
Rong 		/d͡ʑiuĕn/
Wang
Li 		/d͡ʑĭuĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/d͡ʑʰi̯uĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		shún
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		seon4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 脣
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		chún
Middle
Chinese 		‹ zywin ›
Old
Chinese 		/*sə.dur/
English lip

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 脣
Reading # 1/1
No. 1389
Phonetic
component 		辰
Rime
group 		文
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		脣
Old
Chinese 		/*ɦljun/
Notes 今作脣

Definitions

脣

  1. (anatomy) lip
  2. (figurative) lip-shaped thing
  3. (literary or Hakka, Southern Min) side; edge
    路脣／路唇 [Sixian Hakka]  ―  lu-sùn [Pha̍k-fa-sṳ]  ―  roadside
    耳仔脣／耳仔唇 [Hokkien]  ―  hī-á tûn [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  helix of the ear

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 嘴脣 (“lips”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 脣, 吻
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 嘴脣, 脣, 吻
Mandarin Beijing 嘴脣兒
Taiwan 嘴脣
Tianjin 嘴脣兒
Harbin 嘴脣, 嘴脣兒
Yantai (Muping) 嘴脣子
Jinan 嘴脣, 嘴脣兒
Luoyang 嘴脣兒
Xi'an 嘴脣兒
Yinchuan 嘴脣子
Xining 嘴脣兒, 嘴皮兒
Ürümqi 嘴脣子
Wuhan 嘴脣
Chengdu 嘴皮, 嘴皮子
Guilin 嘴脣
Liuzhou 嘴脣
Xuzhou 嘴脣兒, 嘴脣子
Yangzhou 嘴脣子
Hefei 嘴脣
Singapore 嘴脣
Cantonese Guangzhou 口脣, 嘴脣
Hong Kong 嘴脣, 口脣
Taishan 口脣, 嘴脣
Yangjiang 嘴脣
Singapore (Guangfu) 口脣
Gan Nanchang 嘴脣, 嘴脣皮, 嘴脣皮子
Lichuan 嘴脣, 嘴脣皮
Hakka Meixian 嘴脣
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 嘴脣
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 嘴脣
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 嘴脣
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 嘴脣
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 嘴脣
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 嘴脣
Hong Kong 嘴脣
Singapore (Dabu) 嘴脣
Huizhou Jixi 嘴脣皮
Jin Taiyuan 嘴脣
Xinzhou 嘴脣子
Northern Min Jian'ou 喙脣
Eastern Min Fuzhou 喙皮
Southern Min Xiamen 喙脣, 喙脣皮
Quanzhou 喙脣, 喙脣皮
Jinjiang 喙脣
Zhangzhou 喙脣, 喙脣皮
Taipei 喙脣
Kaohsiung 喙脣
Penang (Hokkien) 喙脣
Singapore (Hokkien) 喙脣
Manila (Hokkien) 喙脣
Chaozhou 喙脣
Ho Chi Minh City (Teochew) 喙脣
Haikou 喙脣
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 嘴脣, 口脣
Waxiang Guzhang (Gaofeng) 口皮
Wu Shanghai 嘴脣, 嘴脣皮
Shanghai (Chongming) 嘴脣
Suzhou 嘴脣, 嘴脣皮
Danyang 嘴板
Hangzhou 嘴脣皮兒
Ningbo 嘴脣皮
Wenzhou 嘴脣
Jinhua 口脣肉皮
Jinhua (Tangxi) 口脣皮
Xiang Changsha 嘴巴皮, 嘴巴皮子, 嘴脣子
Loudi 嘴脣皮, 嘴皮子
Shuangfeng 嘴巴皮

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

脣

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 脣 (MC zywin). Recorded as Middle Korean 슌 (syun) (Yale: syun) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

脣 (eumhun 입술 순 (ipsul sun))

  1. Hanja form? of 순 (“lip”).

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

脣 (thần)

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