泉

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泉 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹日水 (HAE), four-corner 2623₂, composition ⿱白水)

• 腺, 𫇋, 𧪒, 𤀁

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 615, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17274
• Dae Jaweon: page 1009, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1576, character 10
• Unihan data for U+6CC9

Historical forms of the character 泉
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形) or ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 白 (“spring mouth”) + 水 (“water”) – water flowing from the source of a spring. See also 原.

Schuessler (2007) minimally reconstructs the Old Chinese as *dzwan and also reconstructs Proto-Tibeto-Burman *tso (“to bubble; to boil”) (> Tibetan འཚོད་པ ('tshod pa, “to be boiled”), Tibetan བཙོས (btsos, “to cook in boiling water”), Burmese ဆူ (hcu, “to boil; to bubble”)), and considers 泉 (OC *sɡʷen, “spring (of water)”) to be cognate to it (with an n-suffix nominalization). However, STEDT considers the above three Tibeto-Burman terms to be descended from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *tsjow (“to boil; to burn; to bake; to bake”), to which 焦 (OC *ʔsew, “to roast; to burn; to scorch”) is cognate.

泉

1. springwater (Classifier: 口 m; 眼 m)

   溫泉／温泉  ―  wēnquán  ―  hot spring

   甘泉  ―  gānquán  ―  sweet springwater

2. mouth of a spring
3. mythical abode of the dead

   黃泉／黄泉  ―  huángquán  ―  netherworld

4. (historical) an ancient type of coin
5. Short for 泉州 (Quánzhōu, “Quanzhou”).

• (springwater):

• (mouth of a spring):

• “泉”, 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–
• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 , editor (2021), “泉”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 517.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “泉”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 194.

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. spring (source of water)

• Go-on: ぜん (zen)
• Kan-on: せん (sen, Jōyō)
• Kun: いずみ (izumi, 泉, Jōyō)^{←いづみ (idumi, 泉, historical)}
• Nanori: いず (izu)、ずい (zui)、ずみ (zumi)、ぜい (zei)、ぜん (zen)、の (no)

/idumi/ → /id͡zumi/ → (for most modern Japanese dialects; see also Yotsugana) /izumi/

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.

Compound of 出づ (ancient reading idu, modern izu, “to come out”) +‎ 水 (mi, “water”).^[1][2][3][4]

• (Tokyo) いずみ (Heiban – )^[2][5][4]
• IPA^(key):

泉(いずみ) • (izumi) ^{←いづみ (idumi)?}

1. natural spring, a wellspring

   Synonyms: 湧泉, 涌泉 (yūsen)

   若(わか)返(がえ)りの泉(いずみ)

   Wakagaeri no Izumi

   The Fountain of Youth

   • 1999 August 26, “泉(いずみ)の妖(よう)精(せい) [Fairy of the Fountain]”, in BOOSTER 4, Konami:

     泉(いずみ)を守(まも)る妖(よう)精(せい)。泉(いずみ)を汚(けが)す者(もの)を容(よう)赦(しゃ)なく攻(こう)撃(げき)。

     Izumi o mamoru yōsei. Izumi o kegasu mono o yōsha naku kōgeki.

     A fairy who mercilessly assaults anyone who dares contaminate the fountain she’s sworn protects.

泉(いずみ) • (Izumi) ^{←いづみ (Idumi)?}

1. a place name
2. a surname
3. a female given name

From Middle Chinese 泉 (MC dzjwen).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

泉

Wikisource

泉 (eumhun 샘 천 (saem cheon))

1. hanja form^? of 천 (“spring”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

泉: Hán Nôm readings: tuyền

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