紉

See also: 纫

紉 U+7D09, 紉 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D09 ← 紈 [U+7D08] CJK Unified Ideographs 紊 → [U+7D0A]

Translingual

Han character

紉 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 女火尸竹戈 (VFSHI), four-corner 2792₀, composition ⿰糹刃)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 916, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27248
• Dae Jaweon: page 1345, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3367, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7D09

Chinese

trad.		紉
simp.		纫

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 紉
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
涊	*nɯːnʔ, *njɯnʔ
紉	*nɯn
忍	*njɯnʔ
荵	*njɯnʔ
刃	*njɯns
認	*njɯns, *njɯŋs
仞	*njɯns
軔	*njɯns
韌	*njɯns
肕	*njɯns
牣	*njɯns
杒	*njɯns
訒	*njɯns

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): rèn (ren⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jan⁶ / jan⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): līm / jīm / līn / jīn / lín

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: rèn
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: rèn
    • Wade–Giles: jên⁴
    • Yale: rèn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: renn
    • Palladius: жэнь (žɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐən⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jan⁶ / jan⁴
    • Yale: yahn / yàhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jan⁶ / jan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yen⁶ / yen⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐn²²/, /jɐn²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: līm
    • Tâi-lô: līm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lim
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lim²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lim⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jīm
    • Tâi-lô: jīm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: jim
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡zim²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: līn
    • Tâi-lô: līn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lin
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lin²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lin⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jīn
    • Tâi-lô: jīn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: jin
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡zin²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lín
    • Tâi-lô: lín
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lien
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lin⁵⁵⁴/

Note:

• līm/jīm/līn/jīn - literary;
• lín - vernacular (俗).

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• Middle Chinese: nrin

Rime
Character	紉
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	娘 (12)
Final (韻)	眞 (44)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	女鄰切
Baxter	nrin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɳˠiɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/ɳᵚin/
Shao Rongfen	/nien/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɳjin/
Li Rong	/njĕn/
Wang Li	/nǐĕn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ni̯ĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	nín
Expected Cantonese Reflex	nan4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*nɯn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	紉
Reading #	1/1
No.	10827
Phonetic component	刃
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	紉
Old Chinese	/*nɯn/

Definitions

紉

1. to string; to thread (needles)​
2. to sew; to stitch
3. (literary) to esteem highly

Compounds

• 感紉 / 感纫 (gǎnrèn)
• 紉佩 / 纫佩 (rènpèi)
• 縫紉 / 缝纫 (féngrèn)
• 縫紉機 / 缝纫机 (féngrènjī)

References

• “紉”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

紉

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: にん (nin)
• Kan-on: じん (jin)^{←ぢん (din, historical)}
• Kun: なわ (nawa, 紉)、むすぶ (musubu, 紉ぶ)