緊

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緊 U+7DCA, 緊
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7DCA
← 緉
[U+7DC9]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 緋 →
[U+7DCB]
See also: 紧

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

緊 (radical 120 糸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 尸水女戈火 (SEVIF), four-corner 77903, composition ⿱臤糸)

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 929, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27603
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1367, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3410, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+7DCA

Chinese[edit]

trad. 緊
simp. 紧

Glyph origin[edit]

Characters in the same phonetic series (臣) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
臤 *kʰaːn, *kʰriːn, *ɡiːn, *kʰins
掔 *kʰriːn, *kʰiːn
慳 *kʰriːn
藖 *ɡriːn, *ɡriːns
堅 *kiːn
鋻 *kiːn, *kiːns
鰹 *kiːn
蜸 *kʰiːnʔ
菣 *kʰiːns, *kʰins
賢 *ɡiːn
礥 *ɡiːn, *ɢrin
臔 *ɡiːnʔ
挋 *kiŋs
臣 *ɡiŋ
茞 *ɡiŋ
腎 *ɡjinʔ
頣 *hŋiŋʔ
緊 *kinʔ
嚚 *ŋɡriŋ
鏗 *kʰreːŋ
摼 *kʰreːŋ
硻 *kʰreːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kinʔ): phonetic 臤 (OC *kʰaːn, *kʰriːn, *ɡiːn, *kʰins) + semantic 糸.

Pronunciation[edit]

Rime
Character 緊
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 眞 (43)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 居忍切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kiɪnX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kinX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kjenX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kinX/
Li
Rong		 /kiĕnX/
Wang
Li		 /kĭĕnX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki̯ĕnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jǐn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 緊
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jǐn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kjinX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.qi[n]ʔ/ (I! no palatalization)
English tight

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 緊
Reading # 1/1
No. 1346
Phonetic
component		 臣
Rime
group		 眞
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 緊
Old
Chinese		 /*kinʔ/

Definitions[edit]

緊

  1. tense; tight; taut; tightly
  2. firm; secure
  3. to tighten
    • 緊一緊腰帶 / 紧一紧腰带  ―  jǐn yī jǐn yāodài  ―  to tighten the belt a little
  4. strict
  5. pressing; urgent
  6. short of money; hard up
  7. violent; heavy
    • 雨下得緊。 / 雨下得紧。  ―  Yǔ xià de jǐn.  ―  It's raining quite heavily.
  8. critical; important
  9. (literary or Min Nan) quick; rapid; quickly
  10. (Cantonese) Grammatical particle used to express progressive aspect (an ongoing activity) which may undergo a change of state. Similar to the -ing form in English.

See also[edit]

  • (particle used to express progressive aspect): (Mandarin) 正在 (zhèngzài)

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 緊

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

緊

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

緊 • (gin) (hangeul 긴, revised gin, McCune-Reischauer kin, Yale kin)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

緊 (khẩn, lẳm)

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References[edit]

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