饉

See also: 馑

饉	U+9949, 饉 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9949

← 饈
[U+9948]

CJK Unified Ideographs

饊 →
[U+994A]

Translingual

Han character

饉 (Kangxi radical 184, 食+11, 20 strokes, cangjie input 人戈廿中一 (OITLM), four-corner 8471₄, composition ⿰飠堇(GHTV) or ⿰𩙿堇(JK) or ⿰飠𦰌)

time of famine or crop failure

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1425, character 4
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44366
Dae Jaweon: page 1950, character 34
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4469, character 14
Unihan data for U+9949

Chinese

trad.		饉
simp.		馑

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 饉
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
囏	*krɯːn
螼	kʰrɯnʔ, kʰrɯns
堇	ɡrɯn, kɯnʔ
墐	ɡrɯn, ɡrɯns
𥎊	*ɡrɯn
僅	*ɡrɯns
瑾	*ɡrɯns
覲	*ɡrɯns
殣	*ɡrɯns
饉	*ɡrɯns
廑	*ɡrɯns
瘽	ɡrɯns, ɡɯn, *ɡɯnʔ
歏	*ɡrɯns
鄞	ŋɡrɯn, ŋɡɯn
謹	*kɯnʔ
槿	*kɯnʔ
漌	*kɯnʔ
慬	kɯnʔ, ɡɯn
勤	*ɡɯn
懃	*ɡɯn
懄	*ɡɯn

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jǐn (jin³)

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄣˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gan² / gan⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: jǐn
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jǐn
  - Wade–Giles: chin³
  - Yale: jǐn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiin
  - Palladius: цзинь (czinʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕin²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: gan² / gan⁶
  - Yale: gán / gahn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gan² / gan⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: gen² / gen⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐn³⁵/, /kɐn²²/

Middle Chinese: ginH

Rime
Character	饉
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	眞 (44)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	渠遴切
Baxter	ginH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡˠiɪn^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡᵚin^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡien^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/gjin^H/
Li Rong	/ɡjĕn^H/
Wang Li	/ɡǐĕn^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/gi̯ĕn^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jìn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gan⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]rə[r]-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*ɡrɯns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	饉
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jìn
Middle Chinese	‹ gin^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]rə[r]-s/
English	famine
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	饉
Reading #	1/1
No.	6738
Phonetic component	堇
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	僅
Old Chinese	/*ɡrɯns/

Definitions

饉

(fossil word) famine

Usage notes

Some ancient dictionaries including Shuowen Jiezi claimed that 饑 was used for shortage of grain and 饉 of vegetables, which however is not attested in the Old Chinese corpus.

Compounds

年饉 / 年馑
饑饉 / 饥馑 (jījǐn)
饑饉之歲 / 饥馑之岁
饑饉荐臻 / 饥馑荐臻 (jījǐnjiànzhēn)
饑饉薦臻 / 饥馑荐臻 (jījǐnjiànzhēn)

References

“饉”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Shinjitai (extended)	Shinjitai (extended)	饉󠄃 饉+`󠄃`^? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
Print standard	饉
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Kanji

饉

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: ごん (gon)
Kan-on: きん (kin)
Kun: うえる (ueru, 饉える)

Compounds

餒(だい)饉(きん) (daikin, “body deterioration due to starvation or hunger”)

Korean

Hanja

饉 • (geun) (hangeul 근, revised geun, McCune–Reischauer kŭn, Yale kun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

饉: Hán Việt readings: cận^[1]^[2]
饉: Nôm readings: cận^[3]

chữ Hán form of cận (“famine, crop failure, starvation”)

References

^ Nguyễn (1974).
^ Thiều Chửu (1942).
^ Trần (2004).

[hvttd-1] Nguyễn (1974).

[tchvtd-2] Thiều Chửu (1942).

[gdhn-3] Trần (2004).

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