歆

歆 U+6B46, 歆 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6B46 ← 歅 [U+6B45] CJK Unified Ideographs 歇 → [U+6B47]

Translingual

Han character

歆 (radical 76, 欠+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜日弓人 (YANO), four-corner 0768₂, composition ⿰音欠)

1. like, admire
2. willingly, gladly
3. to quicken

References

• KangXi: page 570, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16139
• Dae Jaweon: page 958, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2146, character 12
• Unihan data for U+6B46

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		歆

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 歆
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (音) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
諳	*qɯːm
腤	*qɯːm
嬜	*qɯːm, *qʰaːm, *qʰrɯm
喑	*qɯːm, *qrɯm, *qrɯms
揞	*qɯːmʔ, *qrɯːms
隌	*qɯːmʔ, *qrɯm
罯	*qɯːmʔ, *qɯːb
暗	*qɯːms
闇	*qɯːms
黯	*qrɯːm, *qrɯːmʔ
歆	*qʰrɯm
愔	*qɯm
韾	*qɯm
音	*qrɯm
瘖	*qrɯm
窨	*qrɯms
湆	*kʰrɯb

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xīn (xin¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jam¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: xīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄣ
    • Wade–Giles: hsin¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shin
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕin⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jam¹
    • Yale: yām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yem¹
    • IPA ^(key): /jɐm⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /hˠiɪm/▼

Rime
Character	歆
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	侵 (140)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	Chongniu III
Fanqie	許金切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hˠiɪm/
Pan Wuyun	/hᵚim/
Shao Rongfen	/xiem/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hjim/
Li Rong	/xjəm/
Wang Li	/xĭĕm/
Bernard Karlgren	/xi̯əm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xīn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[qʰ](r)əm/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰrɯm/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	歆
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xīn
Middle Chinese	‹ xim ›
Old Chinese	/*[qʰ](r)əm/
English	enjoy (fragrance)
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	歆
Reading #	1/1
No.	15219
Phonetic component	音
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	歆
Old Chinese	/*qʰrɯm/

Definitions

歆

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Japanese

Kanji

歆

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. like
2. admire
3. willingly
4. gladly
5. to quicken

Readings

• On (unclassified): きん (kin), こん (kon)
• Kun: うける (ukeru)

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Korean

Hanja

歆 • (heum) (hangeul 흠, revised heum, McCune–Reischauer hŭm, Yale hum)

1. to envy, be jealous
2. to want, seek after

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Vietnamese

Han character

歆 (hâm, ham, hăm, hôm, hổm, hum, hẩm)

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References

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999