鬒

鬒 U+9B12, 鬒 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9B12 ← 鬑 [U+9B11] CJK Unified Ideographs 鬓 → [U+9B13]

鬒 U+FACD, 鬒 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FACD ← 頻 [U+FACC] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 龜 → [U+FACE]

鬒 U+2FA0A, 鬒 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2FA0A ← 𩬰 [U+2FA09] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 鱀 → [U+2FA0B]

Translingual

Han character

鬒 (Kangxi radical 190, 髟+10, 20 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹十月金 (SHJBC), four-corner 7280₁, composition ⿱髟真 or ⿱髟眞)

1. black, glossy hair

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1456, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45543
• Dae Jaweon: page 1987, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4532, character 3
• Unihan data for U+9B12

• Unihan data for U+FACD

• Unihan data for U+2FA0A

Chinese

simp. and trad.		鬒
alternative forms		㐱

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 鬒
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
寘	*tjels
䡩	*kʰriːn
黰	*ʔriːn, *ʔljinʔ
顛	*tiːn, *tʰiːns
滇	*tiːn, *tʰiːns, *diːn
齻	*tiːn
槙	*tiːn, *tjinʔ
瘨	*tiːn
傎	*tiːn
蹎	*tiːn
厧	*tiːn
巔	*tiːn
癲	*tiːn
瑱	*tʰiːns, *tins
填	*diːn, *diːns, *tin, *tins
窴	*diːn, *diːns
闐	*diːn, *diːns
磌	*diːn, *tjin
鷏	*diːn
嗔	*diːn, *tʰjin
搷	*diːn
鎮	*tin, *tins
縝	*tʰin, *ʔljinʔ, *tʰjin
真	*ʔljin
禛	*tjin
稹	*ʔljin, *ʔljinʔ
蒖	*tjin
鬒	*ʔljinʔ
瞋	*tʰjin
謓	*tʰjin
慎	*djins

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhěn (zhen³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): can² / zan²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chin

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhěn
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhěn
    • Wade–Giles: chên³
    • Yale: jěn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jeen
    • Palladius: чжэнь (čžɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂən²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: can² / zan²
    • Yale: chán / ján
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsan² / dzan²
    • Guangdong Romanization: cen² / zen²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɐn³⁵/, /t͡sɐn³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chin
    • Tâi-lô: tsin
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cyn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sin⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sin³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sin⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sin⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sin⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyinX

Rime
Character	鬒
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	章忍切
Baxter	tsyinX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiɪnX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕinX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕjenX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cinX/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiĕnX/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭĕnX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ĕnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhěn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zan2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ti[n]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔljinʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鬒
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhěn
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyinX ›
Old Chinese	/*ti[n]ʔ/
English	black hair
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	鬒
Reading #	1/1
No.	17075
Phonetic component	眞
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	軫
Old Chinese	/*ʔljinʔ/

Definitions

鬒

1. thick hair; bushy black hair

Compounds

• 豐鬒／丰鬒
• 雲鬒／云鬒
• 青鬒
• 鬋鬒
• 鬒澤／鬒泽
• 鬒美
• 鬒雲／鬒云
• 鬒髯
• 鬒髮／鬒发
• 鬒髻
• 鬒鬄
• 鬒鬢／鬒鬓
• 鬒黑
• 鬢鬒／鬓鬒
• 黑鬒鬒

 

References

• “鬒”, 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

Kanji

鬒

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. black
2. glossy hair

Readings

• On (unclassified): しん (shin)
• Kun: おおい (ōi)

Korean

Hanja

鬒 • (jin) (hangeul 진, revised jin, McCune–Reischauer chin, Yale cin)

1. black and glossy hair