軔

See also: 轫

軔 U+8ED4, 軔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8ED4 ← 軓 [U+8ED3] CJK Unified Ideographs 軕 → [U+8ED5]

軔 U+2F9DE, 軔 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F9DE ← 𠣞 [U+2F9DD] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 輸 → [U+2F9DF]

Translingual

Han character

軔 (Kangxi radical 159, 車+3, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十十尸竹戈 (JJSHI), four-corner 5702₀, composition ⿰車刃)

1. a block that keeps a wheel from moving

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1240, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38190
• Dae Jaweon: page 1716, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3516, character 7
• Unihan data for U+8ED4

• Unihan data for U+2F9DE

Chinese

trad.		軔
simp.		轫

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 軔
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
涊	*nɯːnʔ, *njɯnʔ
紉	*nɯn
忍	*njɯnʔ
荵	*njɯnʔ
刃	*njɯns
認	*njɯns, *njɯŋs
仞	*njɯns
軔	*njɯns
韌	*njɯns
肕	*njɯns
牣	*njɯns
杒	*njɯns
訒	*njɯns

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): rèn (ren⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄣˋ

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

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: rèn
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: rèn
    • Wade–Giles: jên⁴
    • Yale: rèn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: renn
    • Palladius: жэнь (žɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐən⁵¹/
• 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: līm
    • Tâi-lô: līm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lim
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lim²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lim⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lim²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /lim³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /lim³³/

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• Middle Chinese: nyinH

Rime
Character	軔
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	日 (38)
Final (韻)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	而振切
Baxter	nyinH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ȵiɪnH/
Pan Wuyun	/ȵinH/
Shao Rongfen	/ȵʑjenH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ȵinH/
Li Rong	/ȵiĕnH/
Wang Li	/ȵʑĭĕnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȵʑi̯ĕnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	rèn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jan6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*nər(ʔ)-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*njɯns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	軔
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	rèn
Middle Chinese	‹ nyinH ›
Old Chinese	/*nər(ʔ)-s/
English	wheel stopper
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	軔
Reading #	1/1
No.	10834
Phonetic component	刃
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	刃
Old Chinese	/*njɯns/
Notes	亦同肕

Definitions

軔

1. brake

Compounds

• 發軔／发轫 (fārèn)
• 軔致輻射／轫致辐射
• 雲程發軔／云程发轫

 

Japanese

Kanji

軔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. block that keeps wheel from moving

Readings

• On (unclassified): じん (jin); にん (nin); じ (ji); に (ni)
• Kun: はどめ (hadome)

Korean

Hanja

軔 • (in) (hangeul 인, revised in, McCune–Reischauer in, Yale in)

1. a piece of wood serving as a brake to halt a carriage