沁

沁 U+6C81, 沁 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C81 ← 沀 [U+6C80] CJK Unified Ideographs 沂 → [U+6C82]

Translingual

Han character

沁 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+4, 7 strokes, Cangjie input 水心 (EP), four-corner 3310₀, composition ⿰氵心)

Derived characters

• 𫪍, 𦯹

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 609, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17182
• Dae Jaweon: page 1002, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1574, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6C81

Chinese

simp. and trad.		沁

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
沁	*sʰlɯms
吣	*sʰlɯms
心	*slɯm
杺	*slɯm
伈	*slɯmʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sʰlɯms): semantic 氵 + phonetic 心 (OC *slɯm).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qìn (qin⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sam³
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sim / sìm

  (Teochew, Peng'im): cim³ / sim²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qìn
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cìn
    • Wade–Giles: chʻin⁴
    • Yale: chìn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chinn
    • Palladius: цинь (cinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰin⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sam³
    • Yale: sam
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sam³
    • Guangdong Romanization: sem³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐm³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sim / sìm
    • Tâi-lô: sim / sìm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sym, sixm
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /sim⁴⁴/, /sim²¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /sim³³/, /sim⁴¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /sim⁴⁴/, /sim²¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /sim⁴⁴/, /sim¹¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /sim⁴⁴/, /sim²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: cim³ / sim²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshìm / sím
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰim²¹³/, /sim⁵²/

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• Middle Chinese: tshimH

Rime
Character	沁
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	侵 (139)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	七鴆切
Baxter	tshimH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰiɪmH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰimH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰjemH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰimH/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰiəmH/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰĭĕmH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡sʰi̯əmH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qìn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cam3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰlɯms/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	沁
Reading #	1/1
No.	13799
Phonetic component	心
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	沁
Old Chinese	/*sʰlɯms/

Definitions

沁

1. to soak into water; to seep in water
2. (～日) (telegraphy) the twenty-seventh day of a month

Compounds

• 沁人心肺
• 沁人心脾 (qìnrénxīnpí)
• 沁人肺腑
• 沁入心脾
• 沁入肺腑
• 沁寒
• 沁涼 / 沁凉
• 沁涼如水 / 沁凉如水
• 科爾沁 / 科尔沁 (Kē'ěrqìn)
• 邊沁主義 / 边沁主义 (biānqìnzhǔyì)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (沁):

• → Vietnamese: thấm (沁)

Japanese

Kanji

沁

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: しん (shin)
• Kan-on: しん (shin)
• Kun: しみる (shimiru, 沁みる)

Korean

Hanja

沁 (eum 심 (sim))

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Tày

Adjective

沁

1. Nôm form of têm (“full”).

References

• Dương Nhật Thanh; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[1] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]

Vietnamese

Han character

沁: Hán Việt readings: tấm, thấm, tâm, sấm, tẩm
沁: Nôm readings: tăm, tắm, tôm, tấm

1. chữ Hán form of thấm (“to imbibe; to absorb”)
2. chữ Nôm form of tăm (“small air bubbles”)
3. chữ Nôm form of tắm (“to wash a live body; to bathe, to shower”)
4. chữ Nôm form of tôm (“shrimp, prawn”)