歆

歆	U+6B46, 歆 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6B46

← 歅
[U+6B45]

CJK Unified Ideographs

歇 →
[U+6B47]

Translingual

Han character

歆 (Kangxi radical 76, 欠+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜日弓人 (YANO), four-corner 0768₂, composition ⿰音欠)

Derived characters

噷, 𢣇, 𤐚, 𥋵, 𨮈, 𫘃, 𩪢, 𫉮, 𣋚, 𥵗, 𢋆, 𤻐, 嬜, 𫻎

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 570, character 13
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16139
Dae Jaweon: page 958, character 15
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2146, character 12
Unihan data for U+6B46

Chinese

simp. and trad.		歆

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 歆
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
諳	*qɯːm
腤	*qɯːm
嬜	qɯːm, qʰaːm, *qʰrɯm
喑	qɯːm, qrɯm, *qrɯms
揞	qɯːmʔ, qrɯːms
隌	qɯːmʔ, qrɯm
罯	qɯːmʔ, qɯːb
暗	*qɯːms
闇	*qɯːms
黯	qrɯːm, qrɯːmʔ
歆	*qʰrɯm
愔	*qɯm
韾	*qɯm
音	*qrɯm
瘖	*qrɯm
窨	*qrɯms
湆	*kʰrɯb

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xīn (xin¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jam¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xīn
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sin
  - Wade–Giles: hsin¹
  - Yale: syīn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shin
  - Palladius: синь (sinʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕin⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: jam¹
  - Yale: yām
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jam¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: yem¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐm⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: xim

Rime
Character	歆
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	侵 (140)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	許金切
Baxter	xim
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hˠiɪm/
Pan Wuyun	/hᵚim/
Shao Rongfen	/xiem/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hjim/
Li Rong	/xjəm/
Wang Li	/xĭĕm/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xi̯əm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xīn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ham¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[qʰ](r)əm/

(Zhengzhang): /*qʰrɯm/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	歆
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xīn
Middle Chinese	‹ xim ›
Old Chinese	/*[qʰ](r)əm/
English	enjoy (fragrance)
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	歆
Reading #	1/1
No.	15219
Phonetic component	音
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	歆
Old Chinese	/*qʰrɯm/

Definitions

歆

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Compounds

噫歆
歆享
歆動 / 歆动
歆嘗 / 歆尝
歆慕 (xīnmù)
歆歆 (xīnxīn)
歆羨 / 歆羡 (xīnxiàn)
歆艷 / 歆艳
歆豔 / 歆艳
歆饗 / 歆飨

Japanese

Kanji

歆

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

On (unclassified): きん (kin)、こん (kon)
Kun: うける (ukeru)

Korean

Hanja

歆 • (heum) (hangeul 흠, revised heum, McCune–Reischauer hŭm, Yale hum)

to envy, be jealous
to want, seek after

Vietnamese

Han character

歆: Hán Việt readings: hâm^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]
歆: Nôm readings: ham^[1]^[2]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8], hăm^[1]^[2]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8], hôm^[1]^[2]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8], hom^[1]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[8], hổm^[1]^[2]^[4]^[5], hum^[1]^[4]^[5]^[6], hẩm^[1]^[7]^[8], hâm^[1]^[7], hám^[2]^[5], hằm^[7]

chữ Nôm form of ham (“greedy”)
chữ Nôm form of hăm (“used in hăm hở (“eager; enthusiastic; impetuous”)”)
chữ Nôm form of hằm (“used in hằm hằm (“with compression of one's anger”)”)
chữ Nôm form of hẩm (“nasty; smelling or tasting sour or stale”)
chữ Nôm form of hôm (“day”)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 ^1.7 ^1.8 Trần (2004).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 Hồ (1976).
^ Thiều Chửu (1942).
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 ^4.3 ^4.4 ^4.5 ^4.6 Bonet (1899).
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 ^5.3 ^5.4 ^5.5 ^5.6 Génibrel (1898).
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 ^6.3 ^6.4 Taberd & Pigneau de Béhaine (1838).
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 ^7.2 ^7.3 ^7.4 ^7.5 Nguyễn (2014).
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 ^8.2 ^8.3 ^8.4 Nguyễn et al. (2009).