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See also:
U+50C5, 僅
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-50C5

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Alternative forms

Note that in Japanese, the official version of the character is written ⿰ (the component on the right, is not simplified to 𦰌). However, handwritten form of ⿰𦰌 is allowed.

Han character

(Kangxi radical 9, +11, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人廿中一 (OTLM), four-corner 24214, composition or 𦰌)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 115, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1048
  • Dae Jaweon: page 246, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 208, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+50C5

Chinese

trad.
simp. *
alternative forms ancient

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character


References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *ɡrɯns) : semantic + phonetic (OC *ɡrɯn, *kɯnʔ).

Pronunciation 1


Note: gan6 - rare variant.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (30)
Final () (44)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter ginH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɡˠiɪnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɡᵚinH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɡienH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/gjinH/
Li
Rong
/ɡjĕnH/
Wang
Li
/ɡǐĕnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/gi̯ĕnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jìn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gan6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jìn
Middle
Chinese
‹ ginH ›
Old
Chinese
/*rə-s/
English barely

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 6734
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡrɯns/

Definitions

  1. only; merely
  2. a surname

Compounds

Pronunciation 2



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (30)
Final () (44)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter ginH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɡˠiɪnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɡᵚinH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɡienH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/gjinH/
Li
Rong
/ɡjĕnH/
Wang
Li
/ɡǐĕnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/gi̯ĕnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jìn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gan6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jìn
Middle
Chinese
‹ ginH ›
Old
Chinese
/*rə-s/
English barely

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 6734
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡrɯns/

Definitions

  1. (literary) nearly; almost

References

Japanese

Shinjitai
(extended)
Shinjitai
(extended)

僅󠄀
+&#xE0100;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
僅󠄂
+&#xE0102;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
Kyūjitai
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Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. merely, small quantity

Readings

  • Go-on: ごん (gon)
  • Kan-on: きん (kin, Jōyō)
  • Kun: わずか (wazuka, 僅か, Jōyō)

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun 겨우 (gyeou geun))

  1. hanja form? of (only, merely, solely, just)

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: cẩn, cận, cấn, cẫn

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