芹

芹	U+82B9, 芹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82B9

← 芸
[U+82B8]

CJK Unified Ideographs

芺 →
[U+82BA]

Translingual

Han character

芹 (radical 140, 艸+4, 8 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 7 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿竹一中 (THML), four-corner 4422₁, composition ⿱艹斤)

References

KangXi: page 1021, character 8

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30742

Dae Jaweon: page 1480, character 7

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3182, character 3

Unihan data for U+82B9

Chinese

simp. and trad.		芹

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (斤) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
蘄	ɡɯ, kɯl, *ɡɯn
祈	*ɡɯl
頎	*ɡɯl
旂	*ɡɯl
圻	ɡɯl, ŋɡɯːn, *ŋɡɯn
蚚	ɡɯl, ɡɯːls
岓	*ɡɯl
玂	*ɡɯl
沂	*ŋɡɯl
掀	*qʰan
釿	ŋɡrɯnʔ, ŋkɯn
齗	ŋɡrɯnʔ, ŋɡɯn
听	ŋɡrɯnʔ, ŋɡɯnʔ
垽	ŋrɯns, qɯns
斤	kɯn, kɯns
菦	*kɯnʔ
靳	*kɯns
劤	*kɯns
勁	kɯns, keŋs
赾	*kʰɯnʔ
芹	*ɡɯn
近	ɡɯnʔ, ɡɯns
斦	*ŋɡɯn
欣	*qʰɯn
忻	*qʰɯn
昕	*qʰɯn
訢	*qʰɯn
炘	qʰɯn, qʰɯns
邤	*qʰɯn
庍	qʰɯns, mpreːɡs
焮	*qʰɯns

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): qín (qin²)
(Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): kan⁴
Min Nan (POJ): khûn / khîn

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: qín
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄣˊ
  - Wade–Giles: ch'in²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyn
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰin³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: kan⁴
  - Yale: kàhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: kan⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: ken⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /kʰɐn²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khûn
  - Tâi-lô: khûn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: quun
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen): /kʰun²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khîn
  - Tâi-lô: khîn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qiin
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰin²³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰin¹³/

Middle Chinese: /ɡɨn/▼

Rime
Character	芹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	欣 (57)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	巨斤切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡɨn/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡɨn/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡiən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/gɨn/
Li Rong	/ɡiən/
Wang Li	/ɡĭən/
Bernard Karlgren	/gi̯ən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qín

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*C.[ɢ]ər/
(Zhengzhang): /*ɡɯn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	芹
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qín
Middle Chinese	‹ gjɨn ›
Old Chinese	/*C.[ɢ]ər/
English	cress
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	芹
Reading #	1/1
No.	6657
Phonetic component	斤
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	勤
Old Chinese	/*ɡɯn/

Definitions

芹

celery (Apium graveolens)

Compounds

一芹
掇芹
採芹人／采芹人
曹雪芹
水芹 (shuǐqín)

獻芹／献芹
芹獻／芹献
芹菜 (qíncài)
芹藻

茴芹
采芹
野人獻芹／野人献芹
鴨兒芹／鸭儿芹

Japanese

Kanji

芹

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Go-on: ごん (gon)
Kan-on: きん (kin)
Kun: せり (seri, 芹)

Korean

Hanja

芹 • (geun) (hangeul 근, revised geun, McCune–Reischauer kŭn, Yale kun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

芹 (cần)

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