沁

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沁 U+6C81, 沁
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C81
← 沀
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 沂 →

Translingual

Han character

沁 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 水心 (EP), four-corner 33100, composition ⿰氵心)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 609, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17182
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1002, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1574, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6C81

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 沁

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (心) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
沁 *sʰlɯms
吣 *sʰlɯms
心 *slɯm
杺 *slɯm
伈 *slɯmʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰlɯms) : semantic 氵 + phonetic 心 (OC *slɯm).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 沁
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 侵 (139)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 七鴆切
Baxter tshimH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡sʰiɪmH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡sʰimH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡sʰjemH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/t͡sʰimH/
Li
Rong 		/t͡sʰiəmH/
Wang
Li 		/t͡sʰĭĕmH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/t͡sʰi̯əmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		qìn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		cam3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 沁
Reading # 1/1
No. 13799
Phonetic
component 		心
Rime
group 		侵
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		沁
Old
Chinese 		/*sʰlɯms/

Definitions

沁

  1. to soak into water; to seep in water

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (沁):
  • → Vietnamese: thấm (沁)

Japanese

Kanji

沁

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: しん (shin)
  • Kan-on: しん (shin)
  • Kun: しみる (shimiru, 沁みる)

Korean

Hanja

沁 (eum 심 (sim))

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Tày

Adjective

沁 (transliteration needed)

  1. Nôm form of têm (“full”).

References

  • Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

Vietnamese

Han character

沁: Hán Nôm readings: tắm, tăm, tấm, thấm

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