慇

See also: 殷

慇 U+6147, 慇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6147 ← 慆 [U+6146] CJK Unified Ideographs 慈 → [U+6148]

Translingual

Han character

慇 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 竹水心 (HEP), four-corner 7733₄, composition ⿱殷心)

1. careful, anxious, attentive

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 397, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11045
• Dae Jaweon: page 736, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2334, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6147

Chinese

simp. and trad.		慇

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
殷	*qrɯːn, *qɯn
慇	*qɯn
溵	*qɯn
磤	*qɯnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qɯn) : phonetic 殷 (OC *qrɯːn, *qɯn) + semantic 心 (“heart”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yīn (yin¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yin
    • Wade–Giles: yin¹
    • Yale: yīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: in
    • Palladius: инь (inʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /in⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jan¹
    • Yale: yān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'j+n

Rime
Character	慇
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	欣 (57)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	於斤切
Baxter	'j+n
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɨn/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔɨn/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɨn/
Li Rong	/ʔiən/
Wang Li	/ĭən/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔi̯ən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yīn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jan1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔə[r]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qɯn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	慇
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yīn
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔjɨn ›
Old Chinese	/*ʔə[r]/
English	grieved
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	慇
Reading #	1/1
No.	15233
Phonetic component	殷
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	殷
Old Chinese	/*qɯn/

Definitions

慇

1. careful, anxious, attentive
2. Alternative form of 殷 (“courteous; intimate”)

Compounds

• 慇慇／殷殷
• 慇慇懃懃／殷殷勤勤
• 慇懃／殷勤 (yīnqín)

 

Japanese

Kanji

慇

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• On (unclassified): いん (in)
• Kun: いたむ (itamu, 慇む)、ねんごろ (nengoro, 慇ろ)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
慇
いん Hyōgai
kan'on

From Middle Chinese 慇 (MC 'j+n).

The kan'on pronunciation, so likely a later borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ĩɴ]

Affix

慇(いん) • (in) 

1. Only used in 慇懃 (ingin, “courteous; intimate”)

Korean

Hanja

慇 (eum 은 (eun))

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Vietnamese

Han character

慇: Hán Nôm readings: ân

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