沁

沁	U+6C81, 沁 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C81

← 沀
[U+6C80]

CJK Unified Ideographs

沂 →
[U+6C82]

Translingual

Han character

沁 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 水心 (EP), four-corner 3310₀, composition ⿰氵心)

Derived characters

𫪍, 𦯹

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 609, character 11
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17182
Dae Jaweon: page 1002, character 8
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1574, character 2
Unihan data for U+6C81

Chinese

simp. and trad.		沁

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
沁	*sʰlɯms
吣	*sʰlɯms
心	*slɯm
杺	*slɯm
伈	*slɯmʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sʰlɯms): semantic 氵 + phonetic 心 (OC *slɯm).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): qìn (qin⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄣˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sam³
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): sim / sìm

(Teochew, Peng'im): cim³ / sim²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: qìn
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄣˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cìn
  - Wade–Giles: chʻin⁴
  - Yale: chìn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chinn
  - Palladius: цинь (cinʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰin⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: sam³
  - Yale: sam
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sam³
  - Guangdong Romanization: sem³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐm³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sim / sìm
  - Tâi-lô: sim / sìm
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sym, sixm
  - IPA (Xiamen): /sim⁴⁴/, /sim²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sim³³/, /sim⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /sim⁴⁴/, /sim²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /sim⁴⁴/, /sim¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /sim⁴⁴/, /sim²¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: cim³ / sim²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshìm / sím
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰim²¹³/, /sim⁵²/

Middle Chinese: tshimH

Rime
Character	沁
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	侵 (139)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	七鴆切
Baxter	tshimH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰiɪm^H/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰim^H/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰjem^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰim^H/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰiəm^H/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰĭĕm^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡sʰi̯əm^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qìn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cam³

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*sʰlɯms/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	沁
Reading #	1/1
No.	13799
Phonetic component	心
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*sʰlɯms/

Definitions

沁

to soak into water; to seep in water

Compounds

沁人心肺
沁人心脾 (qìnrénxīnpí)
沁人肺腑
沁入心脾
沁入肺腑
沁寒
沁涼 / 沁凉
沁涼如水 / 沁凉如水
科爾沁 / 科尔沁 (Kē'ěrqìn)
邊沁主義 / 边沁主义 (biānqìnzhǔyì)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (沁):

→ Vietnamese: thấm (沁)

Japanese

Kanji

沁

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: しん (shin)
Kan-on: しん (shin)
Kun: しみる (shimiru, 沁みる)

Korean

Hanja

沁 (eum 심 (sim))

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Tày

Adjective

沁 (transliteration needed)

Nôm form of têm (“full”).

References

Dương Nhật Thanh, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[1] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]

Vietnamese

Han character

沁: Hán Nôm readings: tắm, tăm, tấm, thấm

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