朕

Translingual

Etymology

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Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

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 (Jyutping zam6, Yale jam6)

1. I (used by emperor)

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Japanese

Kanji

朕

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. I (used by royalty)

Readings

• Goon: じん (jin) < ぢむ (dimu) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: ちん (chin) < ちむ (chimu)
• Kun: われ (ware), きざし (kizashi)

Pronoun

朕 (hiragana ちん, romaji chin)

1. I (used by royalty)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

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

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