禁

Translingual

Han character

禁 (radical 113 示+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 木木一一火 (DDMMF), four-corner 4490₁, composition ⿱林示)

1. restrict, prohibit, forbid

References

• KangXi: page 844, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24743
• Dae Jaweon: page 1264, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2400, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7981

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		禁

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jīn, jìn (jin¹, jin⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄣ, ㄐㄧㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gam¹, gam³, kam¹
• Min Nan (POJ): kìm

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣ
    • Wade-Giles: chin¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jin
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕin⁵⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jìn
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣˋ
    • Wade-Giles: chin⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jinn
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕin⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gam¹, gam³, kam¹
    • Yale: gām, gam, kām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gam¹, gam³, kam¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kɐm⁵⁵/, /kɐm³³/, /kʰɐm⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kìm
    • Tâi-lô: kìm
    • IPA (Taipei): /kim¹¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kim²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (禁, reconstructed)
Character (禁), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 侵 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 居吟切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kiɪm/	/ki̯əm/	/kiəm/	/kim/	/kim/	/kĭĕm/	/kjem/
Character (禁), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 侵 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 居蔭切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kiɪmH/	/ki̯əmH/	/kiəmH/	/kimH/	/kimH/	/kĭĕmH/	/kjemH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (禁, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
禁								jìn								‹ kimH ›								/*kr[ə]m-s/								prohibit
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
禁					8180					林					侵					1					金					/*krɯm/
禁					8181					林					侵					1					禁					/*krɯms/

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Japanese

Kanji

禁

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

ban, prohibition

Readings

• Goon: こん (kon)
• Kan’on: きん (kin)
• On (unclassified): ごん (gon)
• Kun: とどめる (todomeru), たえる (taeru)

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Korean

Hanja

禁 (geum) (hangeul 금, revised geum, McCune-Reischauer kŭm, Yale kum)

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Vietnamese

Han character

禁 (cấm, bấm, quắm)

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