饉

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See also: 馑
饉 U+9949, 饉
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9949
← 饈
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 饊 →

Translingual

Han character

饉 (Kangxi radical 184, 食+11, 20 strokes, cangjie input 人戈廿中一 (OITLM), four-corner 84714, composition ⿰飠堇(GHTV) or ⿰𩙿堇(JK) or ⿰飠𦰌)

  1. time of famine or crop failure

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1425, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44366
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1950, character 34
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4469, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+9949

Chinese

trad. 饉
simp. 馑

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 饉
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (堇) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
囏 *krɯːn
螼 *kʰrɯnʔ, *kʰrɯns
堇 *ɡrɯn, *kɯnʔ
墐 *ɡrɯn, *ɡrɯns
𥎊 *ɡrɯn
僅 *ɡrɯns
瑾 *ɡrɯns
覲 *ɡrɯns
殣 *ɡrɯns
饉 *ɡrɯns
廑 *ɡrɯns
瘽 *ɡrɯns, *ɡɯn, *ɡɯnʔ
歏 *ɡrɯns
鄞 *ŋɡrɯn, *ŋɡɯn
謹 *kɯnʔ
槿 *kɯnʔ
漌 *kɯnʔ
慬 *kɯnʔ, *ɡɯn
勤 *ɡɯn
懃 *ɡɯn
懄 *ɡɯn

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 饉
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 眞 (44)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 渠遴切
Baxter ginH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɡˠiɪnH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɡᵚinH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɡienH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/gjinH/
Li
Rong 		/ɡjĕnH/
Wang
Li 		/ɡǐĕnH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/gi̯ĕnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		jìn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gan6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 饉
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		jìn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ginH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*rə-s/
English famine

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 饉
Reading # 1/1
No. 6738
Phonetic
component 		堇
Rime
group 		文
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		僅
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡrɯns/

Definitions

饉

  1. (fossil word) famine

Usage notes

  • Some ancient dictionaries including Shuowen Jiezi claimed that 饑 was used for shortage of grain and 饉 of vegetables, which however is not attested in the Old Chinese corpus.

Compounds

References

Japanese

Shinjitai
(extended) 		Shinjitai
(extended)
饉󠄃
饉+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
Kyūjitai 饉
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Kanji

饉

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: ごん (gon)
  • Kan-on: きん (kin)
  • Kun: うえる (ueru, 饉える)

Korean

Hanja

饉 • (geun) (hangeul 근, revised geun, McCune–Reischauer kŭn, Yale kun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

饉: Hán Việt readings: cận[1][2]
饉: Nôm readings: cận[3]

  1. chữ Hán form of cận (“famine, crop failure, starvation”).

References

  1. ^ Nguyễn (1974).
  2. ^ Thiều Chửu (1942).
  3. ^ Trần (2004).
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