今

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

今 (radical 9 人+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 人戈弓 (OIN), four-corner 8020₇)

1. now, today, modern era

Derived characters

• 念 吟 含

References

• KangXi: page 91, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 358
• Dae Jaweon: page 194, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 105, character 5
• Unihan data for U+4ECA

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		今

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jīn (jin¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gam¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): kîm
• Min Nan (POJ): kim / taⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣ
    • Wade-Giles: chin¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jin
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕin⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gam¹
    • Yale: gām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gam¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kɐm⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kîm
    • IPA (Siyen, including Miaoli): /kim²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kim / taⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: kim / tann
    • IPA (Taipei): /kim⁴⁴/, /tã⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kim³⁴/, /tã³⁴/

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

Old Chinese pronunciation (今, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
今								jīn								‹ kim ›								/*[k]r[ə]m/								now
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
今					6599					今					侵					1					金					/*krɯm/					文源謂含初文

Definitions

今

1. today, now
2. present, current

Compounds

• 今天 (jīntiān)

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Japanese

Kanji

今

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. now

Readings

• Goon: こん (kon)
• Kan’on: きん (kin)
• Kun: いま (ima)
• Nanori: な (na)

Compounds

• 今頃
• 今時
• 今迄
• 今際
• 今一度
• 今夏
• 今回
• 今期
• 今暁
• 今月
• 今古
• 今後
• 今更
• 今国会
• 今々, 今今
• 今次
• 今秋
• 今週
• 今出来
• 今春
• 今宵
• 今尚
• 今上

• 今人
• 今世界
• 今世紀
• 今是昨非
• 今生
• 今昔
• 今川焼
• 今朝
• 今程
• 今度
• 今冬
• 今道心
• 今日 (kyō): today
• 今年
• 今般
• 今晩
• 今風
• 今方
• 今明日
• 今夜
• 今夕
• 今様

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) い​ま [ímà] (Atamadaka - [1])
• IPA^(key): [ima̠]

Noun

今 (hiragana いま, romaji ima)

1. now, present

Synonyms

• 現在 (げんざい) (genzai)

Derived terms

• 今が今まで
• 今ごろ
• 今し方
• 今直ぐ
• 今では
• 今どき
• 今の所
• 今一つ
• 今まで
• 今めかしい
• 今めかす
• 今もって
• 今や
• 今や遅しと
• 今思うと
• 今少し

Proper noun

今 (hiragana こん, romaji Kon)

1. A surname​.

Adverb

今 (hiragana いま, romaji ima)

1. now
2. just now
3. soon

See also

• すぐ (sugu)
• すぐに (sugu ni)

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Korean

Hanja

今 (geum)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 금 (revised: geum, McCune-Reischauer: kŭm)

• Name (hangeul): 이제()

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Vietnamese

Han character

今 (kim)

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