緊

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See also: 紧

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

緊 (radical 120 糸+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 尸水女戈火 (SEVIF), four-corner 77903)

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 929, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27603
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1367, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3410, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+7DCA

Chinese[edit]

-
trad. 緊
simp. 紧

Glyph origin[edit]

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 臤 + semantic 糸.

Pronunciation[edit]

Middle Chinese pronunciation (緊, reconstructed)
Character (緊), Pronunciation 1/1

Initial: 見 (28)
Final: 眞
Division: III

Openness: Open
Tone: Rising (X)

 Fanqie: 居忍切
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 Bernard
Karlgren		 Li
Rong		 Pan
Wuyun		 Edwin
Pulleyblank		 Wang
Li		 Shao
Rongfen
/kiɪnX/ /ki̯ĕnX/ /kiĕnX/ /kinX/ /kinX/ /kĭĕnX/ /kjenX/
Old Chinese pronunciation (緊, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character Modern Beijing
(Pinyin)		 Middle Chinese Old Chinese English
緊 jǐn ‹ kjinX › /*C.qi[n]ʔ (I! no palatalization)/ tight

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
緊 1346 臣 眞 1 緊 /*kinʔ/

Definitions[edit]

緊

  1. tense, tight, taut; tightly
    褲子太緊了。 [MSC, trad.]
    裤子太紧了。 [MSC, simp.]
    Kùzi tài jǐn le. [Pinyin]
    These pants are too tight.
    把瓶口塞緊。 [MSC, trad.]
    把瓶口塞紧。 [MSC, simp.]
    Bǎ píngkǒu sāi jǐn. [Pinyin]
    Stopper the bottle tightly.
  2. firm, secure
  3. to tighten
    緊一緊腰帶 / 紧一紧腰带  ―  jǐn yī jǐn yāodài  ―  to tighten the belt a little
  4. strict
    她把丈夫的收入管得很緊。 [MSC, trad.]
    她把丈夫的收入管得很紧。 [MSC, simp.]
    Tā bǎ zhàngfū de shōurù guǎn de hěn jǐn. [Pinyin]
    She strictly controls expenditure of her husband's income.
  5. pressing, urgent
  6. short of money; hard up
    最近手頭很緊。 [MSC, trad.]
    最近手头很紧。 [MSC, simp.]
    Zuìjìn shǒutóu hěn jǐn. [Pinyin]
    I'm short of money recently.
  7. violent, heavy
    雨下得緊。 [MSC, trad.]
    雨下得紧。 [MSC, simp.]
    Yǔ xià de jǐn. [Pinyin]
    It's raining quite heavily.
  8. critical, important
  9. † (Min Nan) quick, rapid; quickly
    不緊不慢 / 不紧不慢  ―  bùjǐnbùmàn  ―  not rushed and not slow; taking one's time
    伊走了真緊。 [Min Nan, trad.]
    伊走了真紧。 [Min Nan, simp.]
    I cháu liáu chin kín. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
    He runs really fast.
  10. (Cantonese) Grammatical particle used to express progressive aspect (an ongoing activity) which may undergo a change of state. Similar to the -ing form in English.
    我讀緊書。 [Cantonese, trad.]
    我读紧书。 [Cantonese, simp.]
    Ngo5 duk6 gan2 syu1. [Jyutping]
    I am reading a book.
    佢著緊衫。 [Cantonese, trad.]
    佢着紧衫。 [Cantonese, simp.]
    Keoi5 zoek3 gan2 saam1. [Jyutping]
    He/she is putting clothes on.

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Kanji[edit]

See also:
緊

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

緊 (gin) (hangeul 긴, revised gin, McCune-Reischauer kin, Yale kin)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

緊 (khẩn, lẳm)

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