紺

See also: 绀

紺 U+7D3A, 紺 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D3A ← 紹 [U+7D39] CJK Unified Ideographs 紻 → [U+7D3B]

Translingual

Han character

紺 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女火廿一 (VFTM), four-corner 2497₀, composition ⿰糸甘)

1. dark blue or reddish color

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 920, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27362
• Dae Jaweon: page 1352, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3378, character 12
• Unihan data for U+7D3A

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Chinese

trad.		紺
simp.		绀

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
紺	*kɯːms
姏	*mɡaːm
嵌	*sɡaːmʔ, *kʰraːm
甘	*kaːm
柑	*kaːm
苷	*kaːm
泔	*kaːm
坩	*kaːm, *kʰaːm
蚶	*ɢaːm, *ɢaːm
酣	*ɢaːm
甝	*ɢaːm
魽	*ɢaːm
邯	*ɡaːm, *ɡaːm
鉗	*ɡram
箝	*ɡram
黚	*ɡram, *ɡrɯm
拑	*ɡram

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kɯːms) : semantic 糸 (“silk; thread”) + phonetic 甘 (OC *kaːm).

Etymology 1

An area word. Compare Proto-Tai *klamᴮ (“dark (red)”) (whence Thai คล้ำ (klám, “dark”)), Proto-Austronesian *kelam (“dark”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 紺

1. purple; violet; blackish red

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese 紺 (kon), from Middle Chinese 紺 (kʌm^H), see previous etymology for detail.

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khóng

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khóng
    • Tâi-lô: khóng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qorng
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰɔŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰɔŋ⁵³/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 紺

1. (Taiwanese Hokkien) navy blue; dark blue

Synonyms

• 紺色／绀色

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

紺

(Jōyō kanji)

1. navy blue

Readings

• Go-on: こん (kon, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: かん (kan)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
紺
こん Grade: S
on'yomi

Noun

紺(こん) • (kon) 

1. navy blue, dark blue

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Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 紺 (MC komH). Recorded as Middle Korean 감〯 (kǎm) (Yale: kǎm) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ka̠m]
• Phonetic hangul: [감]

Hanja

Wikisource

紺 (eumhun 감색 감 (gamsaek gam))

1. hanja form^? of 감 (“navy blue; dark blue”)

Compounds

Compounds

• 감색 (紺色, gamsaek)
• 감벽 (紺碧, gambyeok)
• 감청 (紺靑, gamcheong)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

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Vietnamese

Han character

紺: Hán Nôm readings: cám, tim, tím

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