壬

See also: 千, 王, and 𡈼

Translingual

Han character

壬 (Kangxi radical 33, 士+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹土 (HG), four-corner 2010₄, composition ⿱丿士(GJKV) or ⿱一士(HT))

Derived characters

• 任

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 243, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5639
• Dae Jaweon: page 483, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 417, character 1
• Unihan data for U+58EC

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Chinese

trad.		壬
simp. #		壬

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 壬
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
紝	*nɯm, *njɯm, *njɯms
鵀	*nɯm, *njɯm, *njɯms
拰	*nɯmʔ
賃	*nɯms
任	*njɯm, *njɯms
壬	*l̥ʰeːŋʔ, *njɯm
恁	*njɯm, *njɯmʔ
銋	*njɯm, *njɯmʔ
荏	*njɯmʔ
餁	*njɯmʔ
栠	*njɯmʔ
袵	*njɯmʔ
飪	*njɯmʔ
妊	*njɯms
衽	*njɯms

Pictogram (象形) : Possibly a carrying pole, a meaning that was later transferred to 任 (rèn).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): rén (ren²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jam⁴
• Northern Min (KCR): ǐng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): jîm / lîm

  (Teochew, Peng'im): rim⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: rén
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: rén
    • Wade–Giles: jên²
    • Yale: rén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ren
    • Palladius: жэнь (žɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jam⁴
    • Yale: yàhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yem⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐm²¹/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: ǐng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jîm / lîm
    • Tâi-lô: jîm / lîm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: jiim, liim
    • IPA (Xiamen): /d͡zim²⁴/, /lim²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /d͡zim²⁴/, /lim²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡zim¹³/, /lim¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /d͡zim²⁴/, /lim²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /zim²³/, /lim²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: rim⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: jĭm
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /d͡zim³⁵/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 壬
Mandarin	Beijing	/ʐən³⁵/
	Harbin	/ʐən²⁴/
	Tianjin	/ʐən⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/ʐẽ⁴²/
	Qingdao	/iə̃⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/ʐən⁴²/
	Xi'an	/ʐẽ²⁴/
	Xining	/ʐə̃⁵³/
	Yinchuan	/ʐəŋ⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/ʐə̃n⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/ʐɤŋ⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/nən²¹³/
	Chengdu	/zən³¹/
	Guiyang	/zen²¹/
	Kunming	/ʐə̃³¹/
	Nanjing	/ʐən⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/ʐən⁵⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/zəŋ¹¹/
	Pingyao	/ʐəŋ¹³/
	Hohhot	/ʐə̃ŋ³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/ȵiŋ²³/ /zəŋ²³/
	Suzhou	/ȵin¹³/
	Hangzhou	/zen²¹³/
	Wenzhou	/ȵaŋ³¹/
Hui	Shexian	/iʌ̃⁴⁴/
	Tunxi	/ian⁴⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/ʐən¹³/
	Xiangtan	/in¹²/
Gan	Nanchang	/lɨn⁴⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/ŋim¹¹/
	Taoyuan	/ŋim¹¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/jɐm²¹/
	Nanning	/jɐm²¹/
	Hong Kong	/jɐm²¹/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/lim³⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/iŋ⁵³/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/iŋ²¹/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/zim³⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/zim³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: nyim

Rime
Character	壬
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	日 (38)
Final (韻)	侵 (139)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	如林切
Baxter	nyim
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ȵiɪm/
Pan Wuyun	/ȵim/
Shao Rongfen	/ȵʑjem/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ȵim/
Li Rong	/ȵiəm/
Wang Li	/ȵʑĭĕm/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȵʑi̯əm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	rén
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jam4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*n[ə]m/

  (Zhengzhang): /*njɯm/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	壬
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	rén
Middle Chinese	‹ nyim ›
Old Chinese	/*n[ə]m/
English	9th heavenly stem
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	壬
Reading #	2/2
No.	10809
Phonetic component	壬
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	任
Old Chinese	/*njɯm/
Notes	甲文作工，象機縷，爲紝初文，坙（經）字從之

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 壬

1. the ninth of the ten heavenly stems
2. a surname

Coordinate terms

• Template:list:heavenly stems/zh

References

• “Entry #791”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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Japanese

Kanji

壬

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• Go-on: にん (nin)
• Kan-on: じん (jin)
• Kun: みずのえ (mizunoe, 壬)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
壬
じん Jinmeiyō
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 壬 (nyim)

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Homophones: ジン, 人, 刃, 仁, 沈, 陣, 尋, 塵

Proper noun

壬(じん) • (Jin) 

1. the ninth of the ten Heavenly Stems

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
壬
みずのえ Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

水 (Mizu, “Water”, one of the Five Elements) +‎ の (no, attributive marker) +‎ 兄 (e, “elder brother”)

Proper noun

壬(みずのえ) • (Mizunoe) ^{←みづのえ (midunoe)?}

1. the ninth of the ten Heavenly Stems

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Korean

Hanja

壬 • (im) (hangeul 임, revised im, McCune–Reischauer im)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 壬 (nhăm, nhám, nhằm, nhâm, râm, nhẹm)

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