衿

衿 U+887F, 衿 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-887F ← 衾 [U+887E] CJK Unified Ideographs 袀 → [U+8880]

Translingual

Han character

衿 (Kangxi radical 145, 衣+4, 9 strokes, Cangjie input 中人戈弓 (LOIN), four-corner 3822₇, composition ⿰衤今)

1. collar or lapel of garment

Derived characters

• 𠸐

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1113, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34149
• Dae Jaweon: page 1578, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3079, character 5
• Unihan data for U+887F

Chinese

trad.		衿
simp. #		衿
alternative forms		紟／𫄛 sash 䘳

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
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
𩃬	*qrɯm
飲	*qrɯmʔ, *qrɯms
蔭	*qrɯms
廕	*qrɯms
矜	*ɡrɯn, *ɡɯn, *kɯŋ

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jīn, jìn (jin¹, jin⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄣ, ㄐㄧㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kam¹ / gam¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jin
    • Wade–Giles: chin¹
    • Yale: jīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jin
    • Palladius: цзинь (czinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕin⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jìn
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jìn
    • Wade–Giles: chin⁴
    • Yale: jìn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jinn
    • Palladius: цзинь (czinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕin⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: kam¹ / gam¹
    • Yale: kām / gām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kam¹ / gam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: kem¹ / gem¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɐm⁵⁵/, /kɐm⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: kim

Rime
Character	衿
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	侵 (140)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	居吟切
Baxter	kim
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠiɪm/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚim/
Shao Rongfen	/kiem/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kjim/
Li Rong	/kjəm/
Wang Li	/kĭĕm/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ki̯əm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jīn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gam1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.ɢ(r)[ə]m-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*krɯm/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	衿
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qìn
Middle Chinese	‹ gimH ›
Old Chinese	/*C.ɢ(r)[ə]m-s/
English	sash string
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	衿
Reading #	1/1
No.	6601
Phonetic component	今
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	金
Old Chinese	/*krɯm/

Definitions

衿

1. collar; lapel
2. sash used to tie a garment
3. gown
4. scholar
5. (archaic) to tie; to knot

Compounds

• 冰衿
• 割衿
• 喉衿
• 子衿
• 指腹割衿
• 施衿結褵 / 施衿结褵
• 紳衿 / 绅衿
• 衿假
• 衿喉
• 衿契
• 衿曲
• 青衿 (qīngjīn)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 衿 – see 襟 (“front of a garment; husbands of sisters; etc.”). (This character is the second-round simplified and variant form of 襟).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

References

• “衿”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

衿

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: こん (kon)
• Kan-on: きん (kin)
• Kun: えり (eri, 衿)

Definitions

Kanji in this term
衿
えり Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 衿 – see the following entry.

【襟えり】S [noun] a neckband; a collar; a lapel [noun] nape (back part of the neck) Alternative spelling 領

(This term, 衿, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

• “^▲衿”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

衿 (eum 금 (geum))

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