槿

槿 U+69FF, 槿 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-69FF ← 槾 [U+69FE] CJK Unified Ideographs 樀 → [U+6A00]

Translingual

Han character

槿 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 木廿中一 (DTLM), four-corner 4491₄, composition ⿰木堇)

1. (botany) a type of rose known as Chinese hibiscus, Chinese rose, Hawaiian hibiscus, shoeblackplant (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 548, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15395
• Dae Jaweon: page 936, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1273, character 6
• Unihan data for U+69FF

Chinese

simp. and trad.		槿

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jǐn (jin³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gan²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jǐn
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jǐn
    • Wade–Giles: chin³
    • Yale: jǐn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiin
    • Palladius: цзинь (czinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕin²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gan²
    • Yale: gán
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gan²
    • Guangdong Romanization: gen²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐn³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: kj+nX

Rime
Character	槿
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	欣 (57)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	居隱切
Baxter	kj+nX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɨnX/
Pan Wuyun	/kɨnX/
Shao Rongfen	/kiənX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɨnX/
Li Rong	/kiənX/
Wang Li	/kĭənX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ki̯ənX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jǐn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gan2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kɯnʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	槿
Reading #	1/1
No.	6745
Phonetic component	堇
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	謹
Old Chinese	/*kɯnʔ/

Definitions

槿

1. hibiscus, especially Hibiscus syriacus

Compounds

• 朝槿
• 木槿 (mùjǐn)
• 朱槿

 

Japanese

Kanji

槿

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: こん (kon)
• Kan-on: きん (kin)
• Kun: むくげ (mukuge, 槿); あさがお (asagao, 槿)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
槿
むくげ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 槿 – see the following entry.

【むくげムクゲ】 [noun] hibiscus; rose of Sharon Alternative spelling 木槿

(This term, 槿, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

槿 • (geun) (hangeul 근, revised geun, McCune–Reischauer kŭn, Yale kun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

槿: Hán Nôm readings: cẩn

1. Chinese hibiscus, Chinese rose, Hawaiian hibiscus, shoeblackplant