泉

泉 U+6CC9, 泉
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CC9
← 泈
[U+6CC8] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 泊 →
[U+6CCA]

Translingual

Han character

泉 (radical 85, 水+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹日水 (HAE), four-corner 26232, composition ⿱白水)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 615, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17274
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1009, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1576, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+6CC9

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 泉
alt. forms 𤽄

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 泉
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (泉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
線 *sqʰeːns
泉 *sɡʷen
葲 *sɡʷen
灥 *kʰʷjen, *sɢʷin

Pronunciation

Note:
  • chôaⁿ - vernacular;
  • choân - literary.
Rime
Character 泉
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 從 (15)
Final (韻) 仙 (78)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 疾緣切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ziuᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡zʷiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡zjuæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡zwian/
Li
Rong		 /d͡ziuɛn/
Wang
Li		 /d͡zĭwɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /d͡zʱi̯wɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 quán
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 泉
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 quán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzjwen ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s-N-ɢʷar/ (MC I!)
English spring, source

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 泉
Reading # 1/1
No. 10728
Phonetic
component		 泉
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 全
Old
Chinese		 /*sɡʷen/

Definitions

泉

  1. spring; fountain
  2. an ancient type of coin
  3. Short for 泉州 (Quánzhōu, “Quanzhou”).

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

泉

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. spring (source of water)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
泉
いずみ
Grade: 6
kun’yomi

/idumi/ → /id͡zumi/ → (for most modern Japanese dialects; see also Yotsugana) /izumi/

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.

Compound of 出づ (idu, modern izu, “to come out”) +‎ 水 (mi, “water”).[1][2][3][4]

Pronunciation

Noun

泉 (hiragana いずみ, rōmaji izumi, historical hiragana いづみ)

  1. natural spring, a wellspring
    Synonyms: 湧泉, 涌泉 (yūsen)
    若 (わか)返 (がえ)りの泉 (いずみ)
    Wakagaeri no Izumi
    The Fountain of Youth
    • 1999 August 26, “泉いずみの妖よう精せい [Fairy of the Fountain]”, in BOOSTER 4 (in Japanese), Konami:
      泉 (いずみ)を守 (まも)る妖 (よう)精 (せい)。泉 (いずみ)を汚 (けが)す者 (もの)を容赦 (ようしゃ)なく攻撃 (こうげき)。
      Izumi o mamoru yōsei. Izumi o kegasu mono o yōsha naku kōgeki.
      A fairy who mercilessly assaults anyone who dares contaminate the fountain she’s sworn protects.

Proper noun

泉 (hiragana いずみ, rōmaji Izumi, historical hiragana いづみ)

  1. a place name
  2. a surname
  3. a female given name

References

  1. ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ↑ 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  4. 1 2 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

泉 • (cheon) (hangeul 천, revised cheon, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏn, Yale chen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

泉 (tuyền)

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