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U+79BD, 禽
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79BD

[U+79BC]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+79BE]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 114, +8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人卜山月 (OYUB), four-corner 80427, composition 𠆢)

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 848, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24893
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1270, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 199, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+79BD

Chinese[edit]

trad.
simp. #

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

In oracle bone inscriptions, pictogram (象形) of a net, originally the same character as 𠦒 and . In bronze inscriptions, the phonetic component (OC *krɯm) was added, making the character phono-semantic (形聲形声, OC *ɡrɯm). This form was borrowed for its modern meaning, and the original meaning of "capture" came to be represented by (OC *ɡrɯm).

In the modern form, has corrupted into and 𠦒 into . Compare with .

Pronunciation[edit]



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (30)
Final () (140)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter gim
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɡˠiɪm/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɡᵚim/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɡiem/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/gjim/
Li
Rong
/ɡjəm/
Wang
Li
/ɡĭĕm/
Bernard
Karlgren
/gi̯əm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
qín
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
kam4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
qín qín
Middle
Chinese
‹ gim › ‹ gim ›
Old
Chinese
/*[C.ɢ](r)[ə]m/ /*[C.ɢ](r)[ə]m/
English bird; animal catch, capture

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 6607
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡrɯm/

Definitions[edit]

  1. (literary) birds and beasts
  2. birds (as a general category); fowl
    流感  ―  qínliúgǎn  ―  bird flu
  3. Alternative form of (to capture; to catch)
  4. a surname

Synonyms[edit]

Compounds[edit]

References[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. bird
  2. (more specifically) chicken

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Usage notes[edit]

Rarely used in modern Japanese. The character is used instead to spell the tori reading.

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

(eumhun 날짐승 (naljimseung geum))

  1. Hanja form? of (birds, fowl, winged animals).

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

: Hán Nôm readings: cầm

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