胤

胤 U+80E4, 胤 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-80E4 ← 胣 [U+80E3] CJK Unified Ideographs 胥 → [U+80E5]

Translingual

Han character

胤 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 中女月山 (LVBU), four-corner 2201₀, composition ⿰𦙍乚)

Derived characters

• 湚, 𠸕, 𧎠, 𨢂

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 980, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29405
• Dae Jaweon: page 1432, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 39, character 16
• Unihan data for U+80E4

Chinese

trad.		胤
simp. #		胤
alternative forms		𦙍 𠉥 㣧 𦞩 𤗅

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
胤	*lins
酳	*lins

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 八 + 幺 + 肉. Explanation uncertain.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yìn (yin⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jan⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): īn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yìn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yìn
    • Wade–Giles: yin⁴
    • Yale: yìn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yinn
    • Palladius: инь (inʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /in⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jan⁶
    • Yale: yahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jan⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yen⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐn²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: īn
    • Tâi-lô: īn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: in
    • IPA (Xiamen): /in²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /in⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /in²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /in³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /in³³/

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• Middle Chinese: yinH

Rime
Character	胤
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	羊晉切
Baxter	yinH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiɪnH/
Pan Wuyun	/jinH/
Shao Rongfen	/jenH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jinH/
Li Rong	/iĕnH/
Wang Li	/jĭĕnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ĕnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yìn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jan6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ə[n]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*lins/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	胤
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yìn
Middle Chinese	‹ yinH ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ə[n]-s/
English	descendants
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	胤
Reading #	1/1
No.	15324
Phonetic component	胤
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	𦙍
Old Chinese	/*lins/
Notes	疑與洕同聲符

Definitions

胤

1. (literary) progeny; posterity; descendants
2. (literary) heir; successor

Compounds

• 子胤 (zǐyìn)
• 淑胤
• 祚胤
• 胤嗣 (yìnsì)
• 胤子
• 車胤囊螢／车胤囊萤

 

Japanese

Kanji

胤

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• Go-on: いん (in)
• Kan-on: いん (in)
• Kun: たね (tane, 胤)
• Nanori: つぎ (tsugi); つぐ (tsugu); かず (kazu)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
胤
たね Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Noun

胤(たね) • (tane) 

1. paternal blood, offspring

Derived terms

• 胤(たね)違(ちが)い (tanechigai, “half brother, half sister”)
• 落(おと)し胤(だね) (otoshidane, “nobleman's illegitimate child”)

Related terms

• 種(たね) (tane, “seed”)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
胤
いん Jinmeiyō
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 胤 (MC yinH).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ĩɴ]

Affix

胤(いん) • (in) 

1. lineage; descendant

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 胤(いん)裔(えい) (in'ei, “successor, descendant”)
• 皇(こう)胤(いん) (kōin, “Imperial descendant”)
• 後(こう)胤(いん) (kōin, “descendant, scion”)
• 落(らく)胤(いん) (rakuin, “nobleman's illegitimate child”)

Korean

Hanja

胤 (eum 윤 (yun))

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Vietnamese

Han character

胤: Hán Nôm readings: dận

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