斤

See also: 觔 and 斥

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

斤 (radical 69 斤+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹一中 (HML), four-corner 7222₁)

1. a catty (approximately 500 g)
2. an axe / ax
3. keen, shrewd
4. KangXi radical number 69

See also

• 斥

References

• KangXi: page 479, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13534
• Dae Jaweon: page 837, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2022, character 1
• Unihan data for U+65A4

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		斤

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jīn (jin¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gan¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): kin
• 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/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gan¹
    • Yale: gān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gan¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kɐn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kin
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /kin⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kin / kun
    • Tâi-lô: kin / kun
    • IPA (Taipei): /kin⁴⁴/, /kun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kin³⁴/, /kun³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (斤, reconstructed)
Character (斤), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 欣 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 舉欣切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kɨn/	/ki̯ən/	/kiən/	/kɨn/	/kɨn/	/kĭən/	/kiən/
Character (斤), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 欣 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 居焮切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kɨnH/	/ki̯ənH/	/kiənH/	/kɨnH/	/kɨnH/	/kĭənH/	/kiənH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (斤, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
斤								jīn								‹ kjɨn ›								/*[k]ər/								axe; catty
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
斤					6649					斤					文					1					斤					/*kɯn/
斤					6653					斤					文					1					靳					/*kɯns/

Definitions

斤

1. (Hong Kong) catty or kan, a traditional unit of weight, legally defined as equal to 0.60478982 kilograms (公斤)

References

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

See also

• 担, 兩, 錢, 分, 金衡兩, 金衡錢, 金衡分
• 公斤, 克

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Japanese

Kanji

斤

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: きん (kin), こん (kon)
• Kun: おの (ono)

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Korean

Hanja

斤 (geun) (hangeul 근, revised geun, McCune-Reischauer kŭn, Yale kun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

斤 (cân, rìu, gần)

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