尹

Translingual

Han character

尹 (radical 44 尸+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 尸大 (SK), X尸大 (XSK), four-corner 1750₇, composition ⿻彐丿)

1. govern
2. oversee
3. director
4. a surname

References

• KangXi: page 299, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7631
• Dae Jaweon: page 595, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 964, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5C39

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		尹

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǐn (yin³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wan⁵
• Min Nan (POJ): ún

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yǐn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄣˇ
    • Wade-Giles: yin³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yiin
    • IPA ^(key): /in²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: wan⁵
    • Yale: wáhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wan⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /wɐn¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ún
    • Tâi-lô: ún
    • IPA (Taipei): /un⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /un⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (尹, reconstructed)
Character (尹), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 以 (36) Final: 諄 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 余準切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/jiuɪnX/	/i̯uĕnX/	/iuĕnX/	/jʷinX/	/jwinX/	/jĭuĕnX/	/juenX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (尹, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
尹								yǐn								‹ ywinX ›								/*m-qurʔ/								govern; governor
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
尹					15300					尹					眞					1					尹					/*ɢʷlinʔ/

References

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

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Japanese

Kanji

尹

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: いん (in)
• Kun: おさ (osa), ただす (tadasu)

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Korean

Hanja

尹 (yun)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 윤 (revised: yun, McCune-Reischauer: yun, Yale: yun)

• Name (hangeul): 성 윤()

1. A common family name.

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: doãn, duẫn

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References

• Nom Foundation