吟

Translingual

Han character

吟 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口人戈弓 (ROIN), four-corner 6802₇, composition ⿰口今)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 177, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3330
• Dae Jaweon: page 395, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 591, character 10
• Unihan data for U+541F

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Chinese

trad.		吟
simp. #		吟

Glyph origin

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

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
霠
飲	*qrɯmʔ, *qrɯms
蔭	*qrɯms
廕	*qrɯms
矜	*ɡrɯn, *ɡɯn, *kɯŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋɡrɯm, *ŋɡrɯms) : semantic 口 + phonetic 今 (OC *krɯm).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 吟

1. to recite; to chant
2. to groan
3. (literature) a type of poetry
4. (of birds or insects) to sing

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Japanese

Kanji

吟

(Jōyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ごん (gon)^{←ごん (gon, historical)←ごむ (gomu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: ぎん (gin, Jōyō)^{←ぎん (gin, historical)←ぎむ (gimu, ancient)}
• On: きん (kin); こん (kon)
• Kun: うたう (utau, 吟う)^{←うたふ (utafu, 吟ふ, historical)}; なく (naku, 吟く)

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Korean

Hanja

吟 • (eum) (hangeul 음, revised eum, McCune–Reischauer ŭm)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 吟 (ngâm, gặm, gẫm, ngăm, ngăn, ngậm, ngẫm, gầm, ngẩm, ngắm, ngợm)

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