巨人

Chinese

very large; huge; tremendous
very large; huge; tremendous; gigantic
 
 man; person; people
trad. (巨人) 巨 人
simp. #(巨人) 巨 人

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 巨 人
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 群 (30) 日 (38)
Final (韻) 魚 (22) 眞 (43)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 其吕切 如鄰切
Baxter gjoX nyin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɡɨʌX/ /ȵiɪn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɡiɔX/ /ȵin/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɡiɔX/ /ȵʑjen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/gɨə̆X/ /ȵin/
Li
Rong 		/ɡiɔX/ /ȵiĕn/
Wang
Li 		/ɡĭoX/ /ȵʑĭĕn/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/gi̯woX/ /ȵʑi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		jù rén
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		geoi6 jan4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 人
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		rén
Middle
Chinese 		‹ nyin ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ni[ŋ]/
English (other) person

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 巨 人
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 7047 10800
Phonetic
component 		巨 人
Rime
group 		魚 眞
Rime
subdivision 		0 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		仁
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡaʔ/ /*njin/

Noun

巨人

  1. giant
    站在巨人的肩膀上 [MSC, trad. and simp.]
    zhàn zài jùrén de jiānbǎng shàng [Pinyin]
    to stand on the shoulders of giants

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (巨人):
  • → Japanese: 巨人(きょじん) (kyojin)
  • → Korean: 거인(巨人) (geoin)
  • → Vietnamese: cự nhân (巨人)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
巨 人
きょ
Grade: S 		じん
Grade: 1
kan'on

Etymology

Ultimately from Middle Chinese 巨人 (MC gjoX nyin).

The professional baseball team is an abbreviation of one of its original names, the 東京巨人軍 (Tōkyō Kyojin-gun, “Tokyo Giants”).

Pronunciation

Noun

巨(きょ)人(じん) • (kyojin) 

  1. [early 1900s] a giant:
    1. (mythology) a human of very great size, titan
      進(しん)撃(げき)の巨(きょ)人(じん) ― Shingeki no Kyojin ― Attack on Titan (literally, “the Advancing Giants”)
    2. a very tall person
      Synonyms: 大男 (ōotoko), 巨漢 (kyokan)
      Antonym: 小人 (kobito)
    3. a person of extraordinary strength or power, bodily or intellectual
      Synonym: 偉人 (ijin)

Derived terms

  • 巨(きょ)人(じん)症(しょう) (kyojinshō, “gigantism”)
  • 巨(きょ)人(じん)説(せつ)話(わ) (kyojin setsuwa)
  • 巨(きょ)人(じん)大(たい)鵬(ほう)卵(たまご)焼(や)き (kyojin taihō tamagoyaki)
  • 巨(きょ)人(じん)伝(でん)説(せつ) (kyojin densetsu)

Idioms

  • 小(ちい)さな巨(きょ)人(じん) (chīsana kyojin, “small giant → someone who has a small physique but having a great talent”)

See also

Proper noun

巨(きょ)人(じん) • (Kyojin) 

  1. (baseball, colloquial) synonym of 読売ジャイアンツ (Yomiuri Jaiantsu): the Yomiuri Giants

References

  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

Hanja in this term
巨人

Noun

巨人 • (geoin) (hangeul 거인)

  1. hanja form? of 거인 (“giant”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
巨人

Noun

巨人

  1. chữ Hán form of cự nhân (“giant”)
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