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Translingual
Han character
緡 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 女火口心日 (VFRPA), four-corner 27964, composition ⿰糹昬)
- fishing line
- cord
- string of coins
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 930, character 15
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27652
- Dae Jaweon: page 1368, character 14
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3432, character 3
- Unihan data for U+7DE1
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 鍲
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*mrɯn
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| 抿
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*mrɯn, *mrɯn, *mrɯnʔ
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| 緡
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*mrɯn
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| 捪
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*mrɯnʔ
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| 湣
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*mrɯnʔ
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| 昏
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*hmɯːn
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| 婚
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*hmɯːn
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| 閽
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*hmɯːn
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| 惛
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*hmɯːn, *hmɯːnʔ, *hmɯːns
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| 棔
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*hmɯːn
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| 殙
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*hmɯːn
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Pronunciation 1
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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緡
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緡
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| Reading #
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1/2
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2/2
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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mín
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mín
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ min ›
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‹ min ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*m-ru/ (dialect: *m-r- > *mr-)
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/*m-run/ (dialect: *m-r- > *mr-)
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| English
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wrap around
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cord
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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.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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緡
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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5526
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Phonetic
component
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昏
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Rime
group
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文
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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珉
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Old
Chinese
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/*mrɯn/
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Definitions
緡
- (archaic) fishing line
- 鉤緡／钩缗 ― gōu mín ― fishing hook and fishing line
- (archaic) cord for stringing coins
- (literary) string of coins; money
- (archaic) Classifier for a string of money, equals to 1000 文 (wén).
- (historical) Name of a country at the northeast of what is now Jinxiang county, Shandong province.
- (dialectal, obsolete) to apply; to cover
緡、緜，施也。秦曰緡，趙曰緜，吴、越之間脱衣相被謂之緡緜。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
缗、绵，施也。秦曰缗，赵曰绵，吴、越之间脱衣相被谓之缗绵。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]- From: Yang Xiong, Fangyan, c. 1st century BCE
- Mín, mián, shī yě. Qín yuē mín, zhào yuē mián, wú, yuè zhījiān tuōyī xiàng bèi wèi zhī mínmián.
- Both mín and mián signify to apply—mín is used in the Qin region, and mián in Zhao. In Wu and Yue, mínmián refers to the act of taking off one's clothes and covering something with it.
- a surname
Pronunciation 2
For pronunciation and definitions of 緡 – see 綿 (“silk floss; to continue; to be continuous; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of 緜, which is in turn a variant form of 綿). |
Pronunciation 3
For pronunciation and definitions of 緡 – see 愍.
(This character is a variant form of 愍). |
Japanese
Kanji
緡
(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
緡 • (min) (hangeul 민, revised min, McCune–Reischauer min, Yale min)
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