錦

See also: 锦

Translingual

Han character

錦 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 金竹日月 (CHAB), four-corner 8612₇, composition ⿰釒帛)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1311, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40569
• Dae Jaweon: page 1812, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4222, character 2
• Unihan data for U+9326

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Chinese

trad.		錦
simp.		锦

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
淦	*kɯːm, *kɯːms
顉	*ŋɯːmʔ, *ŋ̊ʰrɯm, *ŋ̊ʰɯmʔ
金	*krɯm
錦	*krɯmʔ
欽	*kʰrɯm
菳	*kʰrɯm
嶔	*kʰrɯm
撳	*kʰrɯms
捦	*ɡrɯm
鵭	*ɡrɯm
唫	*ɡrɯmʔ, *ŋɡrɯm
鈙	*ɡrɯms
崟	*ŋɡrɯm
趛	*ŋɡrɯmʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *krɯmʔ) : phonetic 金 (OC *krɯm) + semantic 帛.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jǐn (jin³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gam²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kím
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): kím / gím

  (Teochew, Peng'im): gim²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jǐn
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jǐn
    • Wade–Giles: chin³
    • Yale: jǐn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiin
    • Palladius: цзинь (czinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕin²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gam²
    • Yale: gám
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gam²
    • Guangdong Romanization: gem²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐm³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kím
    • Hakka Romanization System: gim^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: gim³
    • Sinological IPA: /kim³¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kím
    • Tâi-lô: kím
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kiem
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kim⁴¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kim⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /kim⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gím
    • Tâi-lô: gím
    • Phofsit Daibuun: giem
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /ɡim⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɡim⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: gim²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kím
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kim⁵²/

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• Middle Chinese: kimX

Rime
Character	錦
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	侵 (140)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	居飲切
Baxter	kimX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠiɪmX/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚimX/
Shao Rongfen	/kiemX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kjimX/
Li Rong	/kjəmX/
Wang Li	/kĭĕmX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ki̯əmX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jǐn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gam2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*Cə.k(r)[ə]mʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*krɯmʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	錦
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jǐn
Middle Chinese	‹ kimX ›
Old Chinese	/*Cə.k(r)[ə]mʔ/
English	brocade
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	錦
Reading #	1/1
No.	6680
Phonetic component	金
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	錦
Old Chinese	/*krɯmʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 錦

1. brocade; tapestry
2. embroidered
3. bright and beautiful

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Japanese

Kanji

錦

(Jōyō kanji)

1. brocade

Readings

• Go-on: こん (kon)^{←こん (kon, historical)←こむ (komu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: きん (kin, Jōyō)^{←きん (kin, historical)←きむ (kimu, ancient)}
• Kun: にしき (nishiki, 錦, Jōyō)
• Nanori: あや (aya)、かね (kane)

Compounds

Compounds

• 錦(きん)繍(しゅう) (kinshū)
• 錦(きん)嚢(のう) (kinnō)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
錦
にしき Grade: S
kun'yomi

Originally a compound of 丹 (ni, “red”) + 頻 (shiki, “repetition”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

錦(にしき) • (nishiki) 

1. brocade (generic name for weaving fabrics with various colored threads)
2. a word expressing beauty (for example, colors or patterns) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 高麗(こま)錦(にしき), 狛(こま)錦(にしき) (Koma nishiki)
• 紅葉(もみじ)の錦(にしき) (momiji no nishiki, “brocade of autumn leaves”)
• 大和(やまと)錦(にしき), 倭(やまと)錦(にしき) (Yamato nishiki)

Idioms

Idioms

• 錦(にしき)を飾(かざ)る (nishiki o kazaru)
• 錦(にしき)を着(き)て夜(よる)行(ゆ)くが如(ごと)し (nishiki o kite yoru yuku ga gotoshi)

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Korean

Hanja

錦 • (geum)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 금 (revised: geum, McCune–Reischauer: kŭm, Yale: kum)
  • Name (hangeul): 비단
    (revised: bidan, McCune–Reischauer: pidan)

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Compounds

• 地錦 (지금)
• 秋錦 (추금)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 錦 (cẩm, gấm)

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