蓳

蓳

蓳 U+84F3, 蓳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-84F3 ← 蓲 [U+84F2] CJK Unified Ideographs 蓴 → [U+84F4]

蓳 U+2F9A9, 蓳 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F9A9 ← 蓱 [U+2F9A8] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 蔖 → [U+2F9AA]

Translingual

Traditional	蓳
Shinjitai	菫
Simplified	堇

Han character

蓳 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 廿廿中一 (TTLM), four-corner 4410₄, composition ⿱艹堇)

References

• KangXi: page 1052, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31732
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3275, character 10
• Unihan data for U+84F3
• Unihan data for U+2F9A9

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Chinese

trad.		蓳/菫/堇*
simp.		堇*

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
囏	*krɯːn
螼	*kʰrɯnʔ, *kʰrɯns
堇	*ɡrɯn, *kɯnʔ
墐	*ɡrɯn, *ɡrɯns
𥎊	*ɡrɯn
僅	*ɡrɯns
瑾	*ɡrɯns
覲	*ɡrɯns
殣	*ɡrɯns
饉	*ɡrɯns
廑	*ɡrɯns
瘽	*ɡrɯns, *ɡɯn, *ɡɯnʔ
歏	*ɡrɯns
鄞	*ŋɡrɯn, *ŋɡɯn
謹	*kɯnʔ
槿	*kɯnʔ
漌	*kɯnʔ
慬	*kɯnʔ, *ɡɯn
勤	*ɡɯn
懃	*ɡɯn
懄	*ɡɯn

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kɯnʔ) : semantic 艸 + phonetic 堇 (OC *ɡrɯn, *kɯnʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jǐn (jin³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gan²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jǐn
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jǐn
    • Wade–Giles: chin³
    • Yale: jǐn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiin
    • Palladius: цзинь (czinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕin²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gan²
    • Yale: gán
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gan²
    • Guangdong Romanization: gen²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐn³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /kɨn^X/

Rime
Character	蓳
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	欣 (57)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	居隱切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɨnX/
Pan Wuyun	/kɨnX/
Shao Rongfen	/kiənX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɨnX/
Li Rong	/kiənX/
Wang Li	/kĭənX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ki̯ənX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jǐn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gan2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kə[r]ʔ/, /*kə[r]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kɯnʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蓳	蓳
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jìn	jìn
Middle Chinese	‹ kjɨnX ›	‹ kjɨnH ›
Old Chinese	/*kə[r]ʔ/	/*kə[r]-s/
English	(kind of vegetable)	aconite
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	蓳
Reading #	1/1
No.	6746
Phonetic component	堇
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	謹
Old Chinese	/*kɯnʔ/

Definitions

蓳

1. Viola verecunda, a kind of violet.