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U+8693, 蚓
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8693

[U+8692]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8694]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 142, +4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 中戈弓中 (LINL), four-corner 52100, composition )

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1077, character 35
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32866
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1546, character 29
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2841, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+8693

Chinese

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simp. and trad.
2nd round simp.
alternative forms

Glyph origin

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *linʔ) : semantic (insect; worm) + phonetic (OC *linʔ, *lins).

Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *zril (worm); cognate with Tibetan སྲིལ (sril, silkworm), Japhug qandʐe (earthworm), Burmese တီ (ti, earthworm) (STEDT; Paul, 1972; Schuessler, 2007; Zhang, Jacques and Lai, 2019). See also (OC *lin, *linʔ), (OC *djanʔ).

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (36)
Final () (43)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter yinX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/jiɪnX/
Pan
Wuyun
/jinX/
Shao
Rongfen
/jenX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/jinX/
Li
Rong
/iĕnX/
Wang
Li
/jĭĕnX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i̯ĕnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yǐn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jan5
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yǐn
Middle
Chinese
‹ yinX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɢ](r)ə[r]ʔ/
English earth-worm (khjuw.yinX)

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. 15307
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*linʔ/
Notes

Definitions

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  1. (biology or in fossilized compounds or dialectal) earthworm

Synonyms

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Compounds

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References

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. earthworm

Readings

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  • Go-on: いん (in)
  • Kan-on: いん (in)
  • Kun: みみず (mimizu, )

Compounds

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Korean

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Hanja

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(in) (hangeul , revised in, McCune–Reischauer in, Yale in)

  1. (지렁이) earthworm, rainworm

Synonyms

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Compounds

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