懄

See also: 慬 and 懃

懄 U+61C4, 懄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-61C4 ← 懃 [U+61C3] CJK Unified Ideographs 懅 → [U+61C5]

Translingual

Han character

懄 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+13, 16 strokes, Cangjie input 心廿一尸 (PTMS), four-corner 9402₇, composition ⿰忄勤)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 405, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11322
• Dae Jaweon: page 745, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2360, character 1
• Unihan data for U+61C4

Chinese

simp. and trad.		懄

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (堇) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
囏	*krɯːn
螼	*kʰrɯnʔ, *kʰrɯns
堇	*ɡrɯn, *kɯnʔ
墐	*ɡrɯn, *ɡrɯns
𥎊	*ɡrɯn
僅	*ɡrɯns
瑾	*ɡrɯns
覲	*ɡrɯns
殣	*ɡrɯns
饉	*ɡrɯns
廑	*ɡrɯns
瘽	*ɡrɯns, *ɡɯn, *ɡɯnʔ
歏	*ɡrɯns
鄞	*ŋɡrɯn, *ŋɡɯn
謹	*kɯnʔ
槿	*kɯnʔ
漌	*kɯnʔ
慬	*kɯnʔ, *ɡɯn
勤	*ɡɯn
懃	*ɡɯn
懄	*ɡɯn

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡɯn): semantic 心 (“heart”) + phonetic 勤 (OC *ɡɯn).

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 懄 – see 慬 (“sorrowful”). (This character is recorded in one or more historical dictionaries as a variant form of 慬).

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 懄 – see 懃. (This character is a variant form of 懃).

Further reading

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B01171-001
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B01206-001

Japanese

Kanji

懄

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): きん (kin)

Korean

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [kɯn]
• Phonetic hangul: [근]

Hanja

懄 (eumhun 근심할 근 (geunsimhal geun))

1. alternative form of 慬 (“to worry”)