恁
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See also: 㤛
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Translingual
Han character
恁 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人土心 (OGP), four-corner 22331, composition ⿱任心)
Related characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 383, character 16
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10518
- Dae Jaweon: page 713, character 7
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2291, character 3
- Unihan data for U+6041
Chinese
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 恁 |
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| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Small seal script |
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *njɯm, *njɯmʔ) : phonetic 任 (OC *njɯm, *njɯms) + semantic 心 (“heart”).
Etymology 1
| trad. | 恁 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. # | 恁 | |
| alternative forms | 㤛 𢗖 | |
- “to think”
- From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-njam (“to think”). Cognate with 念 (OC *nɯːms, “to think”). See there for more.
This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄖㄣˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: rèn
- Wade–Giles: jên4
- Yale: rèn
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: renn
- Palladius: жэнь (žɛnʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ʐən⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: jam6
- Yale: yahm
- Cantonese Pinyin: jam6
- Guangdong Romanization: yem6
- Sinological IPA (key): /jɐm²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Southern Min
- Middle Chinese: nyim, nyimX
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*nmʔ/
- (Zhengzhang): /*njɯm/, /*njɯmʔ/
Definitions
恁
Compounds
Etymology 2
| trad. | 恁 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. # | 恁 | |
| alternative forms | 按 Hakka 咹 Hakka | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄋㄣˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: nèn
- Wade–Giles: nên4
- Yale: nèn
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nenn
- Palladius: нэнь (nɛnʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /nən⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan; variant in Mainland)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄖㄣˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: rèn
- Wade–Giles: jên4
- Yale: rèn
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: renn
- Palladius: жэнь (žɛnʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ʐən⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: jam6 / jam5
- Yale: yahm / yáhm
- Cantonese Pinyin: jam6 / jam5
- Guangdong Romanization: yem6 / yem5
- Sinological IPA (key): /jɐm²²/, /jɐm¹³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
Note:
- jam6 - original reading;
- jam5 - vernacular reading.
- Southern Min
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: rim2
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: jím
- Sinological IPA (key): /d͡zim⁵²/
- (Teochew)
Definitions
恁
- (literary or dialectal) so
- (literary or dialectal) this; that
- (literary or dialectal) how
- (literary or dialectal) what
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 這麼 (“this; so; such (modifies adj.)”)
Compounds
Etymology 3
| trad. | 恁 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. # | 恁 | |
| alternative forms | 按 Hakka 咹 Hakka | |
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: án
- Hakka Romanization System: anˋ
- Hagfa Pinyim: an3
- Sinological IPA: /an³¹/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
- Hakka Romanization System: anˇ / anˊ / anˋ / an
- Sinological IPA: /an¹¹/, /an²⁴/, /an⁵³/, /an⁵⁵/
- (Meixian)
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
Definitions
恁
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 這麼 (“this; so; such (modifies adj.)”)
Compounds
Etymology 4
| trad. | 恁 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. # | 恁 | |
| alternative forms | 您 | |
Allegedly a contraction of 汝儂／汝侬 (lí-nâng, “you people”). See 儂 (“person; pronoun suffix”) for more.
Pronunciation
- Southern Min
Note:
- ning2 - Chaozhou, Shantou;
- neng2 - Shantou, Chenghai;
- nêng2 - Jieyang.
Definitions
恁
- (dialectal) you (singular)
- (Southern Min) you (plural)
- 恁食飽未？／恁食饱未？ [Hokkien] ― Lín chia̍h-pá--bōe? [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― Have y'all eaten?
- (Southern Min) your (singular or plural)
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 你 (“you (singular)”)
Dialectal synonyms of 你們 (“you (plural)”)
Compounds
Etymology 4
| For pronunciation and definitions of 恁 – see 您 (“(Mandarin, polite form) you”). (This character is a variant form of 您). |
Etymology 5
| For pronunciation and definitions of 恁 – see 飪 (“to cook thoroughly”). (This character is recorded in one or more historical dictionaries as an ancient form of 飪). |
Etymology 6
| For pronunciation and definitions of 恁 – see 諗 (“(Cantonese) to think; to consider”). (This character is a variant form of 諗). |
References
- Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B01102
- Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01365-003
- “恁”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
- (Cantonese) 粵音資料集叢
- (Cantonese) 《漢語方言大詞典》 (中華書局, 1999), Page 4948
- “Entry #5971”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.
Japanese
Kanji
恁
- thus; so; in this way
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Readings
Alternative forms
Korean
Hanja
恁 • (im) (hangeul 임, revised im, McCune–Reischauer im, Yale im)
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Vietnamese
Han character
恁: Hán Nôm readings: nhắm, nhẩm, nhậm, nhẫm
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