吻

吻 U+543B, 吻
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-543B
← 吺
[U+543A] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 吼 →
[U+543C]

Translingual

Han character

吻 (radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口心竹竹 (RPHH), four-corner 67020, composition ⿰口勿)

References

  • KangXi: page 179, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3375
  • Dae Jaweon: page 397, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 593, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+543B

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 吻
alt. forms 𦝮

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 吻
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (勿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
脗 *minʔ
吻 *mɯnʔ
刎 *mɯnʔ
伆 *mɯnʔ, *mɯd
勽 *buːs, *mɯnʔ
沕 *mrɯd, *mɯd
忽 *hmɯːd
昒 *hmɯːd, *mɯd
惚 *hmɯːd
匫 *hmɯːd
笏 *hmɯːd
曶 *hmɯːd
淴 *ʔmɯːd
物 *mɯd
勿 *mɯd
芴 *mɯd
岉 *mɯd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mɯnʔ) : semantic 口 + phonetic 勿 (OC *mɯd).

Etymology

Unknown. Various possibilities are (Schuessler, 2007):

Pronunciation

Note:
  • Quanzhou:
    • mńg - vernacular;
    • bún - literary.
Note:
  • 3min - vernacular (e.g. 吻縫);
  • 3ven - literary.
Rime
Character 吻
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 文 (59)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 武粉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mɨunX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /miunX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /miuənX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /munX/
Li
Rong		 /miuənX/
Wang
Li		 /mĭuənX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mi̯uənX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 wěn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 吻
Reading # 1/1
No. 13206
Phonetic
component		 勿
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 吻
Old
Chinese		 /*mɯnʔ/

Definitions

吻

  1. † (anatomy) proboscis; lip; corner of the lips
    吻合  ―  wěnhé  ―  to tally [lit. lips close]
  2. † to shut the lips
  3. to kiss; kiss
    《再吻我吧》 [Literary Cantonese]  ―  “zoi3 man5 ngo5 baa6” [Jyutping]  ―  "Won't You Kiss Me Again" [song name]
  4. † to coincide; to tally; to be consistent

Compounds

  • 口吻 (kǒuwěn)
  • 口吻生花
  • 吻合 (wěnhé)
  • 喉吻
  • 接吻 (jiēwěn)
  • 接吻病
  • 搖吻鼓舌／摇吻鼓舌
  • 長吻魚／长吻鱼
  • 飛吻／飞吻 (fēiwěn)
  • 鴟吻／鸱吻 (chīwěn)
  • 鴟目虎吻／鸱目虎吻
  • 黃吻／黄吻
  • 齒吻／齿吻

Japanese

Kanji

吻

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. lips
  2. kiss

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
吻
ふん
Jinmeiyō
kan’yōon

Pronunciation

Noun

吻 (hiragana ふん, rōmaji fun)

  1. (anatomy) proboscis

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

吻 • (mun) (hangeul 문, revised mun, McCune–Reischauer mun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

吻 (vẫn, vặt, vẩn)

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