品

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See also: 晶 and 㗊
品 U+54C1, 品
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54C1
← 哀
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 哂 →

Translingual

Stroke order
9 strokes

Han character

品 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 口口口 (RRR), four-corner 60660, composition ⿱口吅)

  1. Shuowen Jiezi radical №42

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 188, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3581
  • Dae Jaweon: page 407, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 615, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+54C1

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 品
alternative forms 𠯮

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 品
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (品) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
臨 *b·rɯm, *b·rɯms
瀶 *b·rɯm
品 *pʰrɯmʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : Triplication of 口, representing various objects. Also occurs in 區.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • bing2 - Chaozhou, Shantou, Chenghai;
  • bêng2/pêng2/ - Jieyang;
  • ping2 - Raoping, Puning.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 品
Mandarin Beijing /pʰin²¹⁴/
Harbin /pʰin²¹³/
Tianjin /pʰin¹³/
Jinan /pʰiẽ⁵⁵/
Qingdao /pʰiə̃⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /pʰin⁵³/
Xi'an /pʰiẽ⁵³/
Xining /pʰiə̃⁵³/
Yinchuan /pʰiŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /pʰĩn⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /pʰiŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /pʰin⁴²/
Chengdu /pʰin⁵³/
Guiyang /pʰin⁴²/
Kunming /pʰĩ⁵³/
Nanjing /pʰin²¹²/
Hefei /pʰin²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /piəŋ⁵³/
Pingyao /pʰiŋ⁵³/
Hohhot /pʰĩŋ⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /pʰiŋ³⁵/
Suzhou /pʰin⁵¹/
Hangzhou /pʰin⁵³/
Wenzhou /pʰeŋ³⁵/
Hui Shexian /pʰiʌ̃³⁵/
Tunxi /pʰin³¹/
Xiang Changsha /pʰin⁴¹/
Xiangtan /pʰin⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /pʰin²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /pʰin³¹/
Taoyuan /pin³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /pɐn³⁵/
Nanning /pɐn³⁵/
Hong Kong /pɐn³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /pʰin⁵³/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /pʰiŋ³²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /pʰeiŋ²¹/
Shantou (Teochew) /piŋ⁵³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /fin²¹³/
Rime
Character 品
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 滂 (2)
Final (韻) 侵 (140)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 丕飲切
Baxter phimX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pʰˠiɪmX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pʰᵚimX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/pʰiemX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/pʰjimX/
Li
Rong 		/pʰjəmX/
Wang
Li 		/pʰĭĕmX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/pʰi̯əmX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		pǐn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		pan2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 品
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		pǐn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ phimX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*pʰrmʔ/
English kind, class

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 品
Reading # 1/1
No. 9804
Phonetic
component 		品
Rime
group 		侵
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		品
Old
Chinese 		/*pʰrɯmʔ/

Definitions

品

  1. article; item; product; commodity
    商品  ―  shāngpǐn  ―  merchandise
    食品  ―  shípǐn  ―  foodstuff
  2. personality; character
  3. grade; level; rank; class
    正一品  ―  zhèng yī pǐn  ―  (of officials) upper first rank
  4. (music, of a string instrument) fret
  5. to taste
  6. a surname

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (品):
  • → Japanese: 品(ひん) (hin); 品(ほん) (hon)
  • → Korean: 품(品) (pum)
  • → Vietnamese: phẩm (品)

Others:

References

Japanese

Kanji

品

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: ほん (hon)
  • Kan-on: ひん (hin, Jōyō)
  • Kun: しな (shina, 品, Jōyō)

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
品
しな
Grade: 3
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
𠯮

Pronunciation

Noun

品(しな) • (shina) 

  1. article, goods
  2. stock
  3. quality

Counter

品(しな) • (-shina) 

  1. an item (on the menu) or dish
    一(ひと)品(しな)
    hitoshina
    1 item/dish

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
品
ひん
Grade: 3
kan'on
Alternative spelling
𠯮

Pronunciation

Noun

品(ひん) • (hin) 

  1. grace, elegance
  2. refinement
  3. article, goods
  4. course, dish

Counter

品(ひん) • (-hin) 

  1. an item (on the menu) or dish
    一(いっ)品(ぴん)
    ippin
    1 item/dish
    三(さん)品(ぴん)
    sanpin
    3 items/dishes

See also

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
品
ほん
Grade: 3
goon
Alternative spelling
𠯮

Noun

品(ほん) • (hon) 

  1. (history) a type of rank for officials in East Asian courts

Counter

品(ほん) • (-hon) 

  1. (history) a type of rank for officials in East Asian courts
    一(いっ)品(ぽん)
    ippon
    rank 1
    三(さん)品(ぼん)
    sanbon
    rank 3

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 品 (MC phimX).

Historical readings

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

品 (eumhun 물건(物件) 품)

  1. hanja form? of 품 (“article; goods”)
  2. hanja form? of 품 (“personality; character”)
  3. hanja form? of 품 (“quality”)

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.

Old Japanese

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 品 (MC phimX).

Phonogram

品 (po2)

  1. Denotes phonographic syllable po2.

Usage notes

Only used in the prose of the Kojiki of 712 CE (Miyake (2003) p. 254).

Further reading

Vietnamese

Han character

品: Hán Nôm readings: phẩm

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