朕

Translingual

Etymology

月 + 关

Han character

朕 (radical 74 月+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 月廿大 (BTK), four-corner 7823₄)

1. pronoun 'I' (reserved for use by the emperor after the Qin Dynasty)

Derived characters

• 勝, 塍, 螣, 縢, 𠗲, 滕, 黱, 騰, 幐, 賸, 榺, 謄

References

• KangXi: page 505, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14361
• Dae Jaweon: page 884, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2071, character 5
• Unihan data for U+6715

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Cantonese

Hanzi

朕 (Yale jam6)

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Japanese

Kanji

朕 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: ちん (chin), じん (jin), ちむ (chimu), ぢむ (jimu)
• Kun: われ (ware), わが (waga),　きざし (kizashi)

Pronoun

朕 (hiragana ちん, romaji chin)

1. we (used by royalty)

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Korean

Hanja

朕 (hangeul 짐, revised jim, McCune-Reischauer chim, Yale cim)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

朕 (pinyin zhèn (zhen4), Wade-Giles chen⁴)