衾

衾 U+887E, 衾 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-887E ← 衽 [U+887D] CJK Unified Ideographs 衿 → [U+887F]

Translingual

Han character

衾 (Kangxi radical 145, 衣+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人戈弓女 (OINV), four-corner 8073₂, composition ⿱今衣)

1. coverlet, quilt

Derived characters

• 搇 𠹸 𩔝

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1113, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34147
• Dae Jaweon: page 1578, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3076, character 5
• Unihan data for U+887E

Chinese

trad.		衾
simp. #		衾

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 衾
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
貪	*kʰl'uːm
嗿	*l̥ʰuːmʔ
僋	*l̥ʰuːms, *luːms
酓	*qʰɯːm, *qlamʔ, *qlɯːms
馠	*qʰɯːm
谽	*qʰɯːm
唅	*qʰɯːm, *ɡɯːms
含	*ɡɯːm
肣	*ɡɯːm, *ɡɯːmʔ
頷	*ɡɯːm, *ɡɯːmʔ
筨	*ɡɯːm
梒	*ɡɯːm
鋡	*ɡɯːm
莟	*ɡɯːmʔ, *ɡɯːms
琀	*ɡɯːms
浛	*ɡɯːms
盦	*qɯːm, *qaːb
韽	*qɯːm, *qrɯːms
玪	*krɯːm
妗	*qʰrɯːm, *kʰjam, *qʰlɯːm, *ɡrɯms
欦	*qʰrɯːmʔ, *qʰram, *kʰlam, *kʰlamʔ, *qʰlɯːm
黔	*ɡram, *ɡrɯm
鈐	*ɡram
鳹	*ɡram
雂	*ɡram, *ɡrɯm
念	*nɯːms
梣	*sɡɯm, *sɡrɯm
枔	*sɢrɯm
岑	*sɡrɯm
笒	*sɡrɯm, *ɡrɯms
涔	*sɡrɯm
侺	*ɡjɯms
今	*krɯm
黅	*krɯm
衿	*krɯm
衾	*kʰrɯm
坅	*kʰrɯmʔ
搇	*kʰrɯms
琴	*ɡrɯm
禽	*ɡrɯm
芩	*ɡrɯm
庈	*ɡrɯm
耹	*ɡrɯm
靲	*ɡrɯm
擒	*ɡrɯm
檎	*ɡrɯm
紟	*ɡrɯms
吟	*ŋɡrɯm, *ŋɡrɯms
訡	*ŋɡrɯm
廞	*qʰrɯm, *qʰrɯmʔ
陰	*qrɯm
霠
飲	*qrɯmʔ, *qrɯms
蔭	*qrɯms
廕	*qrɯms
矜	*ɡrɯn, *ɡɯn, *kɯŋ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qīn (qin¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kam¹
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): king¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cin
    • Wade–Giles: chʻin¹
    • Yale: chīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chin
    • Palladius: цинь (cinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰin⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: kam¹
    • Yale: kām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: kem¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɐm⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: king¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰiŋ⁵³³/

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• Middle Chinese: khim

Rime
Character	衾
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	侵 (140)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	去金切
Baxter	khim
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰˠiɪm/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰᵚim/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰiem/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰjim/
Li Rong	/kʰjəm/
Wang Li	/kʰĭĕm/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kʰi̯əm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qīn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ham1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ʰ(r)[ə]m/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰrɯm/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	衾
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qīn
Middle Chinese	‹ khim ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ʰ(r)[ə]m/
English	coverlet
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	衾
Reading #	1/1
No.	6602
Phonetic component	今
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	欽
Old Chinese	/*kʰrɯm/

Definitions

衾

1. (literary) quilt; coverlet

   • 肅肅宵征，抱衾與裯，寔命不猶。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     肃肃宵征，抱衾与裯，寔命不犹。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Sùsù xiāozhēng, bào qīn yǔ dāo, shí mìng bù yóu. [Pinyin]

     Swiftly by night we go, carrying our coverlets and sheets. Our lot is not like hers.

   • 衾裏泣如氷下水，日夜長流人不知。 [Korean Literary Sinitic, trad.]

     From: 16th century, 李玉峰 (Yi Ok-bong), 《玉峰集》

     Geum ri eup yeo bing ha su, irya jang ryu in buji. [Sino-Korean]

     My tears under the blanket are like water under ice; they flow constantly day and night, but people do not know.

2. (literary) quilt used to cover a corpse when it is put in a coffin

Synonyms

• (quilt):

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• 被 (literary, or in compounds)
• 被仔 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 被子 (bèizi)
• 被頭 / 被头 (bèitóu) (regional)

 

Compounds

• 共衾
• 同衾 (tóngqīn)
• 同衾共枕
• 同衾幬 / 同衾帱
• 單衾 / 单衾
• 大衾長枕 / 大衾长枕
• 夷衾
• 孤衾獨枕 / 孤衾独枕
• 扇枕溫衾 / 扇枕温衾
• 枕冷衾寒
• 繡衾 / 绣衾
• 翡翠衾
• 衣衾
• 衾單 / 衾单
• 衾寒枕冷
• 衾影無慚 / 衾影无惭
• 衾枕 (qīnzhěn)
• 衾枕之樂 / 衾枕之乐
• 衾衽
• 衾裯
• 衾褥妝奩 / 衾褥妆奁
• 錦衾 / 锦衾
• 鴛衾 / 鸳衾

 

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “衾”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 189.

Japanese

Kanji

衾

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: こん (kon)^{←こむ (komu, historical)}
• Kan-on: きん (kin)^{←きむ (kimu, historical)}
• Kun: ふすま (fusuma, 衾)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
衾
ふすま Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Noun

衾(ふすま) • (fusuma) 

1. (archaic) quilt

Derived terms

• 蚤(ノミ)の衾(フスマ) (nominofusuma)

Korean

Hanja

衾 • (geum) (hangeul 금, revised geum, McCune–Reischauer kŭm, Yale kum)

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