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U+598A, 妊
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-598A

[U+5989]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+598B]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 38, +4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 女竹土 (VHG), four-corner 42414, composition )

  1. conceive
  2. be pregnant

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 256, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6072
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1031, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+598A

Chinese

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trad.
simp. #

Glyph origin

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Etymology

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Cognate with (OC *njɯm, *njɯms, “to be burdened; to be loaded”). See there for more.

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (38)
Final () (139)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter nyimH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ȵiɪmH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ȵimH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȵʑjemH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ȵimH/
Li
Rong
/ȵiəmH/
Wang
Li
/ȵʑĭĕmH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȵʑi̯əmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
rèn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jam6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 10822
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*njɯms/

Definitions

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  1. pregnant

Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Jōyō kanji)

  1. pregnancy

Readings

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  • Go-on: にん (nin, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: じん (jin)
  • Kun: はらむ (haramu, 妊む)

Korean

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Chinese (MC nyimH).

Historical Readings
Dongguk Jeongun Reading
Dongguk Jeongun, 1448 ᅀᅵᆷ〮 (Yale: zím)
Middle Korean
Text Eumhun
Gloss (hun) Reading
Hunmong Jahoe, 1527[1] ᄇᆡᆯ (Yale: pòyl) ᅀᅵᆷ〯 (Yale: zǐm)

Pronunciation

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  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [i(ː)m]
  • Phonetic hangul: [(ː)]
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 아이 (ai bael im))

  1. hanja form? of (pregnancy)

Compounds

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References

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  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [2]

Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: nhâm

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