忖

忖

忖 U+5FD6, 忖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5FD6 ← 忕 [U+5FD5] CJK Unified Ideographs 志 → [U+5FD7]

Translingual

Han character

忖 (radical 61, 心+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 心木戈 (PDI), four-corner 9400₀, composition ⿰忄寸)

1. guess, suppose, conjecture

References

• KangXi: page 376, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10326
• Dae Jaweon: page 703, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2272, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5FD6

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		忖

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (寸) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
村	*sʰuːn
忖	*sʰuːnʔ
刌	*sʰuːnʔ
寸	*sʰuːns

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cǔn (cun³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: cǔn
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄣˇ
    • Wade–Giles: ts'un³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsoen
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu̯ən²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cyun²
    • Yale: chyún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn²
    • Guangdong Romanization: qun²
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃʰyːn³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡sʰuən^X/▼

Rime
Character	忖
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	倉本切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰuənX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰuonX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰuənX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰwənX/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰuənX/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰuənX/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰuənX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cǔn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[tsʰ]ˤu[n]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰuːnʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	忖
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cǔn
Middle Chinese	‹ tshwonX ›
Old Chinese	/*[tsʰ]ˁu[n]ʔ/
English	measure, consider
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	忖
Reading #	1/1
No.	1911
Phonetic component	寸
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	忖
Old Chinese	/*sʰuːnʔ/

Definitions

忖

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Compounds

忖前思後／忖前思后 忖度 (cǔnduó) 忖測／忖测

忖著勁兒／忖著劲儿 忖量 思忖

暗忖 (àncǔn) 自忖

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Japanese

Kanji

忖

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: そん (son)
• Kan-on: そん (son)
• Kun: はかる (hakaru)

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Korean

Hanja

忖 • (chon)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 촌 (revised: chon, McCune–Reischauer: ch'on, Yale: chon)
  • Name (hangeul): 헤아릴 (revised: hearil, McCune–Reischauer: hearil, Yale: healil)

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Vietnamese

Han character

忖: Hán Nôm readings: thổn

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