琴
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Translingual[edit]
Han character[edit]
琴 (radical 96, 玉+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一土人戈弓 (MGOIN), four-corner 11207, composition ⿱玨今)
Derived characters[edit]
References[edit]
- KangXi: page 735, character 11
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21079
- Dae Jaweon: page 1147, character 8
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1119, character 7
- Unihan data for U+7434
Chinese[edit]
| trad. | 琴 | |
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| simp. # | 琴 | |
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Glyph origin[edit]
| Historical forms of the character 琴 |
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| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Small seal script |
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| Old Chinese | |
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| 貪 | *kʰl'uːm |
| 嗿 | *l̥ʰuːmʔ |
| 僋 | *l̥ʰuːms, *luːms |
| 酓 | *qʰɯːm, *qlamʔ, *qlɯːms |
| 馠 | *qʰɯːm |
| 谽 | *qʰɯːm |
| 唅 | *qʰɯːm, *ɡɯːms |
| 含 | *ɡɯːm |
| 肣 | *ɡɯːm, *ɡɯːmʔ |
| 頷 | *ɡɯːm, *ɡɯːmʔ |
| 筨 | *ɡɯːm |
| 梒 | *ɡɯːm |
| 鋡 | *ɡɯːm |
| 莟 | *ɡɯːmʔ, *ɡɯːms |
| 琀 | *ɡɯːms |
| 浛 | *ɡɯːms |
| 盦 | *qɯːm, *qaːb |
| 韽 | *qɯːm, *qrɯːms |
| 玪 | *krɯːm |
| 妗 | *qʰrɯːm, *kʰjam, *qʰlɯːm, *ɡrɯms |
| 欦 | *qʰrɯːmʔ, *qʰram, *kʰlam, *kʰlamʔ, *qʰlɯːm |
| 黔 | *ɡram, *ɡrɯm |
| 鈐 | *ɡram |
| 鳹 | *ɡram |
| 雂 | *ɡram, *ɡrɯm |
| 念 | *nɯːms |
| 梣 | *sɡɯm, *sɡrɯm |
| 枔 | *sɢrɯm |
| 岑 | *sɡrɯm |
| 笒 | *sɡrɯm, *ɡrɯms |
| 涔 | *sɡrɯm |
| 侺 | *ɡjɯms |
| 今 | *krɯm |
| 黅 | *krɯm |
| 衿 | *krɯm |
| 衾 | *kʰrɯm |
| 坅 | *kʰrɯmʔ |
| 搇 | *kʰrɯms |
| 琴 | *ɡrɯm |
| 禽 | *ɡrɯm |
| 芩 | *ɡrɯm |
| 庈 | *ɡrɯm |
| 耹 | *ɡrɯm |
| 靲 | *ɡrɯm |
| 擒 | *ɡrɯm |
| 檎 | *ɡrɯm |
| 紟 | *ɡrɯms |
| 吟 | *ŋɡrɯm, *ŋɡrɯms |
| 訡 | *ŋɡrɯm |
| 廞 | *qʰrɯm, *qʰrɯmʔ |
| 陰 | *qrɯm |
| 霠 | |
| 飲 | *qrɯmʔ, *qrɯms |
| 蔭 | *qrɯms |
| 廕 | *qrɯms |
| 矜 | *ɡrɯn, *ɡɯn, *kɯŋ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡrɯm): semantic 珡 + phonetic 今 (OC *krɯm).
Etymology 1[edit]
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Pronunciation[edit]
Definitions[edit]
琴
- (music) qin (“Chinese zithers”), referring to any of several traditional Chinese musical instruments, most famously the guqin
- † to play the qin
- (music) collective name for certain musical instruments, usually of string or keyboard types, such as piano, organ, violin, cello, huqin, accordion, harmonica, etc.
Descendants[edit]
Compounds[edit]
Derived terms from 琴
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Etymology 2[edit]
See 琴日.
Pronunciation[edit]
Definitions[edit]
琴
Compounds[edit]
Japanese[edit]
Kanji[edit]
琴
Readings[edit]
- Go-on: ごん (gon)←ごん (gon, historical)←ごむ (gomu, ancient)
- Kan-on: きん (kin, Jōyō)←きん (kin, historical)←きむ (kimu, ancient)
- Kun: こと (koto, 琴, Jōyō)
Compounds[edit]
Compounds
Etymology 1[edit]
| Kanji in this term |
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| 琴 |
| こと Grade: S |
| kun’yomi |
| Alternative spelling | 箏 (Japanese zither) |
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⟨ko2to2⟩ → */kətə/ → /koto/
From Old Japanese, attested in the three major literature works of the Nara period: the Kojiki (712 CE), the Nihon Shoki (720 CE), and the Man'yōshū (c. 759 CE).[1]
Possibly derived from a compound of elements 木 (ko, “tree, wood”, combining form) + 音 (oto, “sound”), with the additional medial o dropped by haplology.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
- koto: a Japanese zither derived from the Chinese guzheng
- (colloquial) guzheng: a Chinese zither where the koto was based on [since after the Edo period]
- Synonym: 箏 (sō)
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
- 琴頭 (kotogami)
- こと座 (Koto-za, “Lyra”)
- 琴柱 (kotoji, “bridge of a koto”)
- 琴尾, 琴後 (kotojiri)
- 琴爪 (kotozume, “koto plectrum”)
- 琴鳥 (kotodori, “superb lyrebird”)
- 琴弾き (kotohiki)
- 東琴 (azumagoto)
- 出雲琴 (Izumo-goto)
- 須磨琴 (Suma-goto)
- 小琴 (ogoto)
- 百済琴 (Kudara-goto)
- 新羅琴 (Shiragi-goto)
- 箏の琴 (sō no koto)
- 大正琴 (Taishō-goto)
- 竪琴 (tategoto)
- 玉琴 (tamagoto)
- 琵琶琴 (Biwa-goto)
- 八雲琴 (yakumo-goto)
- 大和琴 (Yamato-goto)
Proper noun[edit]
- a female given name
- a surname
Etymology 2[edit]
| Kanji in this term |
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| 琴 |
| きん Grade: S |
| kan’on |
/kimʉ/ → /kiɴ/
From Middle Chinese 琴 (MC ɡˠiɪm). The kan'on pronunciation, so likely a later borrowing.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
Affix[edit]
- guqin (ancient Chinese seven-stringed zither) or other related instruments
- any stringed or keyboard instrument
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
Proper noun[edit]
- a female given name
- a surname.
See also[edit]
- 箏 (sō, “guzheng, zheng”): a Chinese zither similar to the Japanese koto
- 瑟 (shitsu, “se”): another kind of ancient Chinese zither
Etymology 3[edit]
Various nanori readings.
Proper noun[edit]
- a surname.
- a surname.
- a female given name
- a surname.
- a female given name
References[edit]
Korean[edit]
Hanja[edit]
琴 • (geum) (hangeul 금, revised geum, McCune–Reischauer kŭm, Yale kum)
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Compounds[edit]
Vietnamese[edit]
Han character[edit]
琴 (cầm)
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