晋

See also: 晉 and 㬜
晋 U+664B, 晋
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-664B
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[U+664C]

Translingual

Japanese 晋
Simplified 晋
Traditional 晉

Han character

晋 (radical 72, 日+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一金日 (MCA), composition ⿱亚日)

  1. advance, increase
  2. promote
  3. Chinese feudal state of Jin (11th century BCE – 376 BCE), a state of the Zhou Dynasty in northern China
  4. Chinese Jin dynasty (265–420)
  5. 35th hexagram of the I Ching
  6. Shanxi province

References

  • KangXi: page 495, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13899
  • Dae Jaweon: page 860, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1506, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+664B

Usage notes

This character is listed in the Kangxi dictionary (正字通) as an unorthodox form (俗字) of 㬜, which is a variant character of 晉.

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 晋 – see 晉 (“to advance; to increase; to promote; etc.”).
(This character, 晋, is the simplified and variant form of 晉.)
Notes:

Usage notes

Found also in calligraphic works of 颜真卿 (Tang dynasty).

Japanese

Kanji

晋

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. proceed
  2. Jin

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
晋
しん
Jinmeiyō
on’yomi

*/t͡sin/ → /siɴ/ → /ɕiɴ/

From Middle Chinese 晉 (MC t͡siɪnH).

Proper noun

晋 (hiragana しん, rōmaji Shin)

  1. (historical) the Chinese state of Jin (c. 11th century–376 BCE) during the Zhou dynasty
  2. (historical) the Jin dynasty (266–420 CE)
    1. the 西晋 (Seishin, “Western Jin”, 266–316 CE)
    2. the 東晋 (Tōshin, “Eastern Jin”, 317–420 CE)
    Synonym: 晋朝 (Jin-chō)
  3. (historical) the Later Jin (936-947 CE), one of the Five Dynasties
    Synonym: 後晉 (Kōshin, Goshin)
  4. a surname
  5. a unisex given name.

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
晋
すすむしん
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Compound of 進む (susumu, “to proceed”) + 晋 (Shin, “Jin”).

The 晋 kanji itself has a kun'yomi of susumu.

Pronunciation

Usage notes

This reading is used to distinguish from the kan'on-reading of 秦 (Shin, “Qin dynasty”), itself called 秦 (Hata-shin). The senses are the same for Etymology 1 above.

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
晋
すすみ
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Nominalization of the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 進む (susumu, “to proceed”).

Proper noun

晋 (hiragana すすみ, rōmaji Susumi)

  1. a unisex given name.

Etymology 4

Kanji in this term
晋
すすむ
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Nominalization of 進む (susumu, “to proceed”).

Proper noun

晋 (hiragana すすむ, rōmaji Susumu)

  1. a unisex given name.

References

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