臣

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Han character

臣 (Kangxi radical 131, 臣+0, 6 strokes in Chinese, 7 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 尸中尸中 (SLSL), four-corner 7171₇, composition ⿺⿳丅𠃍丅𠃊 or ⿷匚⿳丨コ丨 or ⿻巨⿱丨丨)

1. Kangxi radical #131, ⾂.

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/臣

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 999, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30068
• Dae Jaweon: page 1450, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2801, character 1
• Unihan data for U+81E3

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		臣

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 臣
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

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

Pictogram (象形) – A vertical eye of a man looking downwards. As the individual character it is used as a metaphor meaning “to surrender”, while the meaning relating to eyes appears when used as a radical, such as in 臨 (“to look down at”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 臣

1. minister; statesman; official
2. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

臣

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: じん (jin, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: しん (shin, Jōyō)
• Kun: おみ (omi, 臣); けらい (kerai, 臣)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
臣
おみ Grade: 4
kun'yomi

/omi₁/ *[omi] → /omi/ [omi]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [omi]

Noun

臣(おみ) • (omi) 

1. one who serves a lord; a vassal, subject

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Korean

Hanja

臣 • (sin) (hangeul 신)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 臣 (thần, thườn)

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