晉

晉 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一戈戈日 (MIIA), four-corner 1060₁, composition ⿱⿳一厸一日)

• 搢, 溍, 𪬕, 榗, 瑨, 縉, 鄑, 戩

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 494, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13898
• Dae Jaweon: page 860, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1507, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6649

• Unihan data for U+2F8CD

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 臸 (“to arrive”) + 日 (“sun”)

The I Ching relates it to 進／进 (jìn)[1], whose etymology is unknown (Schuessler, 2007).

晉

1. to advance; to increase
2. to promote
3. (～國) Chinese feudal state of Jin (11th century BCE–376 BCE), a state of the Zhou Dynasty in northern China

   • 晉侯、秦伯圍鄭，以其無禮於晉，且貳於楚也。晉軍函陵，秦軍氾南。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     晋侯、秦伯围郑，以其无礼于晋，且贰于楚也。晋军函陵，秦军氾南。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE

     Jìn hóu, Qín bó wéi Zhèng, yǐ qí wúlǐ yú Jìn, qiě èr yú Chǔ yě. Jìn jūn Hánlíng, Qín jūn Fánnán. [Pinyin]

     The Marquis of Jin and the Earl of Qin laid siege to [the capital of] Zheng, under the pretext of the [Earl of] Zheng's disrespectful treatments towards [Marquis of] Jin and double-mindedness towards Chu. Jin armies were stationed at Hanling; Qin armies at Fannan.

4. (～朝) Chinese Jin dynasty (266–420)
5. 35th hexagram of the I Ching (䷢)
6. Alternative name for 山西 (Shānxī, “Shanxi”).
7. (～語) Jin (a variety of Chinese spoken in and around Shanxi)
8. a surname

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01795

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. to proceed
2. Jin dynasty

• Go-on: しん (shin)
• Kan-on: しん (shin)
• Kun: すすむ (susumu, 晉む)、すすむしん (susumushin, 晉)
• Nanori: あき (aki)、くに (kuni)、ゆき (yuki)

Alternative form of 晋 (Jinmeiyō kanji used for names).

晉 (eumhun 나아갈 진 (naagal jin))

1. hanja form^? of 진 (“advance, increase”)

晉: Hán Nôm readings: tấn, tắn, tớn

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