禽

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogram (指事) – an animal (离, bottom) being captured by a mouth (亼, top); compare 离. In current form, graphically 人 + 离.

Han character

禽 (radical 114 禸+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人卜山月 (OYUB), four-corner 8042₇, composition ⿱𠆢离)

1. birds, fowl
2. used as a surname
3. capture

References

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

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		禽

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qín (qin²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kam⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: qín
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄣˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'in²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyn
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰin³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: kam⁴
    • Yale: kàhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kam⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰɐm²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (禽, reconstructed)
Character (禽), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 群 (30) Final: 侵 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 巨金切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɡiɪm/	/gi̯əm/	/ɡiəm/	/ɡim/	/gim/	/ɡĭĕm/	/ɡjem/

Old Chinese pronunciation (禽, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
禽								qín								‹ gim ›								/*[C.ɢ](r)[ə]m/								bird; animal
禽								qín								‹ gim ›								/*[C.ɢ](r)[ə]m/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
禽					6607					今					侵					1					琴					/*ɡrɯm/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

禽

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• Goon: ごん (gon)
• Kan’on: きん (kin)
• Kun: とりこ (toriko), とり (tori)

Compounds

• 家禽 (かきん, kakin, “domestic fowls, poultry”)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

禽 (cầm)

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