稔

稔 U+7A14, 稔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7A14 ← 稓 [U+7A13] CJK Unified Ideographs 稕 → [U+7A15]

Translingual

Han character

稔 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+8, 13 strokes, Cangjie input 竹木人戈心 (HDOIP), four-corner 2893₂, composition ⿰禾念)

Derived characters

• 𡀝, 𣿇

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 854, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25107
• Dae Jaweon: page 1280, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2614, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7A14

Chinese

trad.		稔
simp. #		稔

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
淰	*rnɯːmʔ, *nɯːmʔ, *hnjɯmʔ
唸	*tɯːms, *tɯːns
埝	*tɯːms, *nɯːb
趝	*klɯːms, *n̥ʰɯːms
諗	*hnjɯmʔ
稔	*njɯːm
棯	*njɯmʔ
腍	*njɯmʔ
捻	*nɯːb
錜	*nɯːb
敜	*nɯːb
惗	*nɯːb, *sens
菍	*nɯːb, *nɯːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *njɯːm): semantic 禾 (“grain”) + phonetic 念 (OC *nɯːms).

Etymology 1

“year”

Austroasiatic (Benedict, 1990; Schuessler, 2003; Schuessler, 2007): compare Proto-Austroasiatic *c<n>am ~ *c<n>ɨm (“year”), whence Khmer ឆ្នាំ (chnam), Mon သၞာံ (hnam), Vietnamese năm.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): rěn (ren³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jam⁵ / nam⁵
• Eastern Min (BUC): sīng / īng
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶zen

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: rěn
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: rěn
    • Wade–Giles: jên³
    • Yale: rěn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: reen
    • Palladius: жэнь (žɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐən²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jam⁵ / nam⁵
    • Yale: yáhm / náhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jam⁵ / nam⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: yem⁵ / nem⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐm¹³/, /nɐm¹³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: sīng / īng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siŋ³³/, /iŋ³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶zen
    • MiniDict: zen^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³zen
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zən²³/

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• Middle Chinese: nyimX

Rime
Character	稔
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	日 (38)
Final (韻)	侵 (139)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	如甚切
Baxter	nyimX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ȵiɪmX/
Pan Wuyun	/ȵimX/
Shao Rongfen	/ȵʑjemX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ȵimX/
Li Rong	/ȵiəmX/
Wang Li	/ȵʑĭĕmX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȵʑi̯əmX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	rěn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jam5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*nimʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*njɯːm/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	稔
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	rěn
Middle Chinese	‹ nyimX ›
Old Chinese	/*nimʔ/
English	harvest, year
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	稔
Reading #	1/1
No.	9496
Phonetic component	念
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	荏
Old Chinese	/*njɯːm/

Definitions

稔

1. year

   • 鍼聞之：「國無道而年穀和熟．天贊之也。鮮不五稔。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     针闻之：「国无道而年谷和熟．天赞之也。鲜不五稔。」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE

     Zhēn wén zhī: “Guó wúdào ér niángǔ héshú. Tiān zàn zhī yě. Xiǎn bù wǔ rěn.” [Pinyin]

     I have heard the warning that: "When a state is immoral yet the yearly harvests are plentiful, Heaven is helping it; seldom not for five years."

2. (of crops, grains) to ripen; ripe; mature; fully-grown
3. Classifier for number of crops grown in a year: crop; harvest

   • 虢公敗戎于桑田。晉卜偃曰：「虢必亡矣。亡下陽不懼，而又有功，是天奪之鑒，而益其疾也！必易晉而不撫其民矣，不可以五稔。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     虢公败戎于桑田。晋卜偃曰：「虢必亡矣。亡下阳不惧，而又有功，是天夺之鉴，而益其疾也！必易晋而不抚其民矣，不可以五稔。」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE

     Guógōng bài róng yú Sāngtián. Jìn bǔ Yǎn yuē: “Guó bì wáng yǐ. Wáng Xiàyáng bùjù, ér yòu yǒugōng, shì tiān duó zhī jiàn, ér yì qí jí yě! Bì yì jìn ér bùfǔ qí mín yǐ, bùkě yǐ wǔ rěn.” [Pinyin]

     The Duke of Guo defeated the Rong at Sangtian. The Jin soothsayer Yan said: "Guo shall surely lose. He lost at Xiayang yet he was not afraid and again has done a (military) feat. Verily, Heaven is taking away his vigilance and increasing his sickness. He will surely take Jin lightly and won't comfort his people; he shan't be able to last for five harvests."

4. to accumulate in the course of time; to collect; to pile up
5. to be familiar with; to know
6. usually; normally
7. beautiful
8. alternative form of 飪 / 饪 (rèn, “to steam (till cooked)”)

Compounds

• 一稔
• 中稔
• 五穀豐稔 / 五谷丰稔
• 來稔 / 来稔
• 再稔
• 多歷年稔 / 多历年稔
• 大稔
• 失稔
• 小稔
• 年稔
• 年豐時稔 / 年丰时稔
• 年豐歲稔 / 年丰岁稔
• 恣凶稔惡
• 惡盈罪稔 / 恶盈罪稔
• 惡稔 / 恶稔
• 惡稔禍盈 / 恶稔祸盈
• 惡稔罪盈 / 恶稔罪盈
• 惡稔貫盈 / 恶稔贯盈
• 時和歲稔 / 时和岁稔
• 期稔
• 歲稔 / 岁稔
• 歲稔年豐 / 岁稔年丰
• 歲豐年稔 / 岁丰年稔
• 歷稔 / 历稔
• 民和年稔
• 熟稔 (shúrěn)
• 登稔
• 禍盈惡稔 / 祸盈恶稔
• 禍稔惡盈 / 祸稔恶盈
• 禍稔惡積 / 祸稔恶积
• 禍稔蕭牆 / 祸稔萧墙
• 秋稔
• 稔亂 / 稔乱
• 稔姦 / 稔奸
• 稔寇
• 稔山
• 稔年
• 稔悉
• 稔惡 / 稔恶
• 稔惡不悛 / 稔恶不悛
• 稔惡盈貫 / 稔恶盈贯
• 稔惡藏奸
• 稔慝
• 稔成
• 稔戾
• 稔收
• 稔歲 / 稔岁
• 稔泰
• 稔熟
• 稔知
• 稔禍 / 稔祸
• 稔禍胎 / 稔祸胎
• 稔稔膩膩 / 稔稔腻腻
• 稔究
• 稔聞 / 稔闻
• 稔育
• 稔膩 / 稔腻
• 稔色
• 稔謀 / 稔谋
• 稔轉 / 稔转
• 稔釁 / 稔衅
• 積稔 / 积稔
• 窮稔 / 穷稔
• 累稔
• 習稔 / 习稔
• 豐年稔歲 / 丰年稔岁
• 豐稔 / 丰稔 (fēngrěn)
• 貫盈惡稔 / 贯盈恶稔
• 連稔 / 连稔
• 釁稔惡盈 / 衅稔恶盈

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nim¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: nim¹
    • Yale: nīm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nim¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: nim¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /niːm⁵⁵/

Definitions

稔

1. (Cantonese) alternative form of 棯 (nim1, “rose myrtle”)

Japanese

Kanji

稔

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: にん (nin)^{←にむ (nimu, historical)}
• Kan-on: じん (jin)^{←じむ (zimu, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: ねん (nen)
• Kun: みのる (minoru, 稔る)、みのり (minori, 稔)
• Nanori: とし (toshi)

Proper noun

稔(みのる) • (Minoru) 

1. a male given name

Korean

Hanja

稔 • (im, yeom) (hangeul 임, 염, revised im, yeom, McCune–Reischauer im, yŏm, Yale im, yem)

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Vietnamese

Han character

稔: Hán Việt readings: nẫm, nhẫm, nhâm
稔: Nôm readings: nậm, nấm, nẫm, núm, rấm

1. chữ Nôm form of nấm (“mushroom; fungus”)
2. chữ Nôm form of nậm (“pot (used to contain alcohol)”)
3. chữ Nôm form of núm (“used in khúm núm (“obsequious, submissive”)”)
4. chữ Nôm form of rấm (“to cover (fruit, seeds) to artificially accelerate their ripening or development”)

Compounds

• 坎稔 (khúm núm)
• 稔稔 (nẫm nẫm)