侵

侵 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 人尸一水 (OSME), four-corner 2724₇, composition ⿰亻𠬶)

• 寑, 葠, 䈜, 蘉

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 103, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 646
• Dae Jaweon: page 218, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 166, character 12
• Unihan data for U+4FB5

According to Shuowen, an ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 人 (“person”) + 帚 (“broom”) + 又 (“hand”) – a person with a broom in hand.

Two Sino-Tibetan etymologies are possible:

• Cognate with Tibetan སྟིམ་པ (stim pa, “to enter; to penetrate”), Tibetan ཐིམ་པ (thim pa, “to dissolve; to disappear; absorbed”), though the two terms agree just as well with 浸 (OC *ʔsims, *sʰim) (Schuessler, 2007), or
• From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *syim (“sweep”) (STEDT); cognate with Anong śim (“to sweep”), Lhao Vo śam (“to sweep”), Burmese သိမ်း (sim:, “to gather in; to take possession of”). Note the graph 侵 shows a broom (帚) which may carry a semantic function (Schuessler, 2007).

侵

1. (literary) to gradually go in
2. to invade; to encroach

   侵略  ―  qīnlüè  ―  to invade

   • 四年春，齊侯以諸侯之師侵蔡。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     四年春，齐侯以诸侯之师侵蔡。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Sì nián chūn, Qí hóu yǐ zhūhóu zhī shī qīn Cài. [Pinyin]

     In this year, in spring, the marquis of Qi, with the forces of many of the princes, made an incursion into Cai.

3. approaching

   侵晨  ―  qīnchén  ―  the approach of daybreak

4. a surname

侵 (Cantonese)

1. to add in (water or other fluid)
2. to allow (somebody) to join

   佢哋唔侵我玩。 [Guangzhou Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   keoi⁵ dei⁶ m⁴ cam¹ ngo⁵ waan². [Jyutping]

   They won't let me play with them.

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “侵”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 189.

(Jōyō kanji)

1. to invade
2. to raid
3. to encroach, to trespass
4. to violate

• Go-on: しん (shin, Jōyō)^{←しん (sin, historical)←しむ (simu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: しん (shin, Jōyō)^{←しん (sin, historical)←しむ (simu, ancient)}
• Kun: おかす (okasu, 侵す, Jōyō)

侵 (eum 침 (chim))

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侵: Hán Nôm readings: xâm, xăm, xơm

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