井

See also: 丼 and 幷

Translingual

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – a square well, with supports on four sides. Compare 丼.

Han character

井 (radical 7 二+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 廿廿 (TT), four-corner 5500₀)

1. well, mineshaft, pit
2. 48th hexagram of the I Ching

Synonyms

• (well): 丼

Descendants

• ヰ

References

• KangXi: page 86, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 258
• Dae Jaweon: page 183, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 10, character 4
• Unihan data for U+4E95

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		井

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jǐng (jing³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zeng², zing²
• Min Nan (POJ): chéⁿ / chíⁿ / chíng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jǐng
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄥˇ
    • Wade-Giles: ching³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiing
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕiŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zeng², zing²
    • Yale: jéng, jíng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzeng², dzing²
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɛːŋ³⁵/, /t͡sɪŋ³⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chéⁿ / chíⁿ / chíng
    • Tâi-lô: tsénn / tsínn / tsíng
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sẽ⁴¹/, /t͡ɕĩ⁴¹/, /t͡ɕiŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sẽ⁵³/, /t͡ɕĩ⁵³/, /t͡ɕiŋ⁵³/
  • Note: chéⁿ, chíⁿ - vernacular, chíng - literary.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (井, reconstructed)
Character (井), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 精 (13) Final: 清 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 子郢切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡siᴇŋX/	/t͡si̯ɛŋX/	/t͡siɛŋX/	/t͡siɛŋX/	/t͡siajŋX/	/t͡sĭɛŋX/	/t͡siæŋX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (井, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
井								jǐng								‹ tsjengX ›								/*C.tseŋʔ/								well (n.)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
井					6852					井					耕					0					井					/*skeŋʔ/					丼注今體甲金文爲型初文

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

A well (井, 丼)

Kanji

井

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. well

Readings

• Goon: しょう (shō)
• Kan’on: せい (sei)
• Kun: い (i), いど (ido), ゐ (wi, outdated)

Compounds

• 井堰
• 井桁
• 井戸
• 井綱
• 井守
• 井泉
• 井底
• 井筒
• 井目

Etymology

wi > i.

Noun

井 (hiragana い, romaji i, historical hiragana ゐ)

1. a well

Derived terms

• 井の中の蛙大海を知らず

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Korean

Hanja

井 (jeong) (hangeul 정, revised jeong, McCune-Reischauer chŏng, Yale ceng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

井 (tỉnh)

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