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See also:
U+73CD, 珍
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-73CD

[U+73CC]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+73CE]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 96, +5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一土人竹竹 (MGOHH), four-corner 18122, composition 𤣩)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 730, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20920
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1141, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1107, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+73CD

Chinese

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simp. and trad.
alternative forms

𨱅
𧟪

Glyph origin

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔl'ɯn) : semantic + phonetic (). Originally meant a rich, robust gemstone (玉), and then also developed the meaning of "rare".

Etymology 1

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Compare Tibetan རིན (rin, price; value) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

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Note: chin - used in 珍珠, also written as 真珠 (chin-chu).
Note:
  • diêng1 - Chaozhou;
  • diang1 - Shantou.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (9)
Final () (44)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter trin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʈˠiɪn/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈᵚin/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȶien/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈjin/
Li
Rong
/ȶjĕn/
Wang
Li
/ȶǐĕn/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ȶi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhēn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zan1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhēn
Middle
Chinese
‹ trin ›
Old
Chinese
/*trə[n]/
English precious thing

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 17091
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔl'ɯn/

Definitions

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  1. treasure
  2. precious; valuable; rare
  3. to treasure; to value

Compounds

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Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Definitions

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  1. (Hokkien) Alternative form of (tiⁿ, sweet)

References

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  • ”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
  • (Min Nan) 厦门大学中国语言文学研究所汉语方言研究室, editor (1982), “”, in 《普通话闽南方言词典》 Putonghua Minnan Fangyan Cidian, Fuzhou: Fujian People's Publishing House, page 995.

Japanese

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Kanji

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(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

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Compounds

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Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
ちん
Grade: S
goon

From Middle Chinese (MC trin, “treasure, precious thing”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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(ちん) (chin-na (adnominal (ちん) (chin na), adverbial (ちん) (chin ni))

  1. rare, strange
Inflection
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Noun

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(ちん) (chin

  1. rarity

Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term
めずらし
Grade: S
nanori

From the Old Japanese and classical Japanese 終止形 (shūshikei, terminal or sentence-ending form) of modern adjective 珍しい (mesurashii, novel, curious, rare).

Perhaps fittingly, the name itself is unusual.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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(めずらし) (Mezurashiめづらし (Medurasi)?

  1. a surname

References

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  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation

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Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 보배 (bobae jin))

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Compounds

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: trân, trằn

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