錦

See also: 锦
錦 U+9326, 錦
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9326
← 錥
[U+9325] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 錧 →
[U+9327]

Translingual

Han character

錦 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 金竹日月 (CHAB), four-corner 86127, composition ⿰釒帛)

References
  • KangXi: page 1311, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40569
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1812, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4222, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+9326

Chinese
trad. 錦
simp. 锦

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (金) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
淦 *kɯːm, *kɯːms
顉 *ŋɯːmʔ, *ŋ̊ʰrɯm, *ŋ̊ʰɯmʔ
金 *krɯm
錦 *krɯmʔ
欽 *kʰrɯm
菳 *kʰrɯm
嶔 *kʰrɯm
撳 *kʰrɯms
捦 *ɡrɯm
鵭 *ɡrɯm
唫 *ɡrɯmʔ, *ŋɡrɯm
鈙 *ɡrɯms
崟 *ŋɡrɯm
趛 *ŋɡrɯmʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *krɯmʔ) : phonetic 金 (OC *krɯm) + semantic 帛.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 錦
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 侵 (140)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 居飲切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠiɪmX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚimX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kiemX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kjimX/
Li
Rong		 /kjəmX/
Wang
Li		 /kĭĕmX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki̯əmX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jǐn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 gam2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 錦
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jǐn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kimX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*Cə.k(r)[ə]mʔ/
English brocade

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 錦
Reading # 1/1
No. 6680
Phonetic
component		 金
Rime
group		 侵
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 錦
Old
Chinese		 /*krɯmʔ/

Definitions

錦

  1. brocade; tapestry
  2. embroidered
  3. bright and beautiful

Compounds
Derived terms from 錦

Japanese

Kanji
錦

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. brocade

Readings

Compounds
Compounds
  • 錦(きん)繍(しゅう) (kinshū)
  • 錦(きん)嚢(のう) (kinnō)

Etymology
Kanji in this term
錦
にしき
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Originally a compound of 丹 (ni, “red”) + 頻 (shiki, “repetition”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) に​しき [níꜜshìkì] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ɲ̟iɕi̥kʲi]

Noun

錦(にしき) • (nishiki) 

  1. brocade (generic name for weaving fabrics with various colored threads)
  2. a word expressing beauty (for example, colors or patterns) (Can we verify(+) this sense?)

Derived terms
Derived terms
  • 高麗(こま)錦(にしき), 狛(こま)錦(にしき) (Koma nishiki)
  • 紅葉(もみじ)の錦(にしき) (momiji no nishiki, “brocade of autumn leaves”)
  • 大和(やまと)錦(にしき), 倭(やまと)錦(にしき) (Yamato nishiki)

Idioms
Idioms
  • 錦(にしき)を飾(かざ)る (nishiki o kazaru)
  • 錦(にしき)を着(き)て夜(よる)行(ゆ)くが如(ごと)し (nishiki o kite yoru yuku ga gotoshi)

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

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 錦 (MC kˠiɪmX). Recorded as Middle Korean 금〯 (kǔm) (Yale: kum) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Wikisource 錦 (eumhun 비단 금 (bidan geum))

  1. Hanja form? of 금 (“brocade”).

Compounds
Compounds
  • 금수 (錦繡, geumsu)
  • 금강 (錦江, ^geumgang)
  • 지금 (地錦, jigeum)
  • 추금 (秋錦, chugeum)
  • 금상첨화 (錦上添花, geumsangcheomhwa)
  • 금의환향 (錦衣還鄕, geumuihwanhyang)

References
  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

錦: Hán Nôm readings: cẩm, gấm

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