巾

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

巾 (radical 50 巾+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 中月 (LB), four-corner 4022₇)

1. kerchief
2. towel
3. turban
4. KangXi radical number 50

References

• KangXi: page 327, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8771
• Dae Jaweon: page 632, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 727, character 17
• Unihan data for U+5DFE

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		巾

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jīn (jin¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gan¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): kin, kiun
• Min Nan (POJ): kin / kun

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣ
    • Wade-Giles: chin¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jin
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕin⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gan¹
    • Yale: gān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gan¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kɐn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kin, kiun
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kin / kun
    • Tâi-lô: kin / kun
    • IPA (Taipei): /kin⁴⁴/, /kun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kin³⁴/, /kun³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (巾, reconstructed)
Character (巾), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 眞 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 居銀切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kiɪn/	/ki̯ĕn/	/kiĕn/	/kin/	/kin/	/kĭĕn/	/kjen/

Old Chinese pronunciation (巾, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
巾								jīn								‹ kin ›								/*krən/								kerchief
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
巾					6550					巾					文					1					巾					/*krɯn/

References

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

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Japanese

Kanji

巾

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: こん (kon)
• Kan’on: きん (kin)
• Kan’yōon: こ (ko)
• Kun: ふきん (fukin), おおい (ooi), はば (haba)

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Korean

Hanja

巾 (geon) (hangeul 건, revised geon, McCune-Reischauer kŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

巾 (cân, khăn, khân)

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