尋

See also: 寻

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 工 (“work”) + 口 (“mouth, talk”) + 又 (“hand”) – to seek out, with hands and mouth (asking).

Note that top hand is not in 又 shape, but rather resembles 彐; this is an earlier form of hand (fingers); see etymology of 又.

Han character

尋 (radical 41 寸+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 尸一一口戈 (SMMRI), four-corner 1734₆, composition ⿳彐⿰工口寸)

References

• KangXi: page 295, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7447
• Dae Jaweon: page 586, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 510, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5C0B

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Chinese

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trad.		尋
simp.		寻

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xún, xín (xun², xin²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄣˊ, ㄒㄧㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cam⁴
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): chhìm
• Min Nan (POJ): siâm / sîm

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xún
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄣˊ
    • Wade-Giles: hsün²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyun
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕyn³⁵/

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  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xín
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄣˊ
    • Wade-Giles: hsin²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyn
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕin³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cam⁴
    • Yale: chàhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsam⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɐm²¹/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhìm
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /t͡ɕʰim¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siâm / sîm
    • Tâi-lô: siâm / sîm
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕiam²³/, /ɕim²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiam¹³/, /ɕim¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (尋, reconstructed)
Character (尋), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 邪 (17) Final: 侵 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 徐林切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ziɪm/	/zi̯əm/	/ziəm/	/zim/	/zim/	/zĭĕm/	/zjem/

Old Chinese pronunciation (尋, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
尋								xún								‹ zim ›								/*sə-l[ə]m (< *-um ?)/								warm up
尋								xún								‹ zim ›								/*sə-l[ə]m/								measure of 8 chǐ 尺
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
尋					14127					尋					侵					3					尋					/*ljum/					象度兩臂間距，說文加彡聲

Definitions

尋

1. to seek, search, look for
2. ancient

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Japanese

Kanji

尋

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: じん (jin)
• Kun: たずねる (tazuneru), ひろ (hiro), つね (tsune)

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Korean

Hanja

尋 (sim) (hangeul 심, revised sim, McCune-Reischauer sim)

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Vietnamese

Han character

尋 (tầm, tìm, tùm, chầm)

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