津

Translingual

Etymology

氵 (“water”) + 聿 – a kind of liquid, saliva.

Han character

津 (radical 85 水+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 水中手 (ELQ), four-corner 3510₇)

1. dropping, shrinking water will run out (Latin humor, humere)
2. saliva
3. ferry
4. ford
5. moisten

See also

• 港

References

• KangXi: page 621, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17396
• Dae Jaweon: page 1017, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1616, character 11
• Unihan data for U+6D25

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Baekje

Noun

津 (nari)

1. ferry

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Cantonese

Hanzi

津 (Yale jeun1)

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Japanese

Kanji

津 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: しん (shin)
• Kun: つ (tsu)

Compounds

• 津液
• 津関
• 津頭
• 津要
• 津々浦々, 津津浦浦
• 津波, 津浪 (つなみ, tsunami)
• 口津

Proper noun

津 (hiragana つ, romaji Tsu)

1. a place name, such as Tsu City in Mie Prefecture

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Korean

Hanja

津 (hangeul 진, revised jin, McCune-Reischauer chin, Yale cin)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

津 (pinyin jīn (jin1), Wade-Giles chin¹)

Compounds

• 津巴布韦
• 津渡
• 津筏
• 津津
• 津津乐道
• 津津有味
• 津贴 / 津貼
• 津液

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Middle Chinese

Han character

津 (*tsin)

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Vietnamese

Han character

津 (tân, lọt, lụt)