# 緡

| 緡 | U+7DE1, &#32225; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7DE1 |
| ← 締 [U+7DE0] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 緢 → [U+7DE2] |

## Translingual
### Han character

緡 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 女火口心日 (VFRPA), four-corner 2796$_4$, composition ⿰糹昬)
* fishing line
* cord
* string of coins

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 930, character 15
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27652
* Dae Jaweon: page 1368, character 14
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3432, character 3
* Unihan data for U+7DE1

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 鍲 | *mrɯn |
| 抿 | *mrɯn, *mrɯn, *mrɯnʔ |
| 緡 | *mrɯn |
| 捪 | *mrɯnʔ |
| 湣 | *mrɯnʔ |
| 昏 | *hmɯːn |
| 婚 | *hmɯːn |
| 閽 | *hmɯːn |
| 惛 | *hmɯːn, *hmɯːnʔ, *hmɯːns |
| 棔 | *hmɯːn |
| 殙 | *hmɯːn |

### Pronunciation 1

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): mín (min$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄣˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): man$^4$ / fan$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: mín
*** Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄣˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: mín
*** Wade–Giles: min$^2$
*** Yale: mín
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: min
*** Palladius: минь (minʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /min³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: man$^4$ / fan$^1$
*** Yale: màhn / fān
*** Cantonese Pinyin: man$^4$ / fan$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: men$^4$ / fen$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /mɐn²¹/, /fɐn⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: min
Rime :
| Character | 緡 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 眞 (44) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 武巾切 |
| Baxter | min |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /mˠiɪn/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /mᵚin/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /mien/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /mjin/ |
| Li Rong | /mjĕn/ |
| Wang Li | /mǐĕn/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /mi̯ĕn/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | mín |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | man$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*m-ru[n]/, /*m-run/
    (Zhengzhang): /*mrɯn/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 緡 | 緡 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | mín | mín |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ min › | ‹ min › |
| Old Chinese | /*m-ru[n]/ (dialect: *m-r- > *mr-) | /*m-run/ (dialect: *m-r- > *mr-) |
| English | wrap around | cord |
| 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 | 緡 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 5526 |
| Phonetic component | 昏 |
| Rime group | 文 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 珉 |
| Old Chinese | /*mrɯn/ |

#### Definitions

緡
* (archaic) fishing line
    鉤緡／钩缗 ― gōu mín ― fishing hook and fishing line
    From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on Bernhard Karlgren's version
    Qí diào wéi hé? Wéi sī yī mín. [Pinyin]
    What do you use for angling? Of silk is the line.
* (archaic) cord for stringing coins
*   * (literary) string of coins; money
*   * (archaic) Classifier for a string of money, equals to 1000 文 (wén).
       From: The Book of Han, circa 1st century CE
       Chū suàn mín qián. [Pinyin]
       (Emperor Wu of Han) started the levying of the "1000 wén" tax.
* (historical) Name of a country at the northeast of what is now Jinxiang county, Shandong province.
* (dialectal, obsolete) to apply; to cover
    From: Yang Xiong, Fangyan, c. 1st century BCE
    Mín, mián, shī yě. Qín yuē mín, zhào yuē mián, wú, yuè zhījiān tuōyī xiàng bèi wèi zhī mínmián. [Pinyin]
    Both mín and mián signify to apply—mín is used in the Qin region, and mián in Zhao. In Wu and Yue, mínmián refers to the act of taking off one's clothes and covering something with it.
* a surname

### Pronunciation 2

* For pronunciation and definitions of 緡 – see 綿 (“silk floss; to continue; to be continuous; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 緜, which is in turn a variant form of 綿).

### Pronunciation 3

* For pronunciation and definitions of 緡 – see 愍. (This character is a variant form of 愍).

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): びん (bin)、みん (min)、こん (kon)
* Kun: つりいと (tsurīto)、なわ (nawa)

## Korean
### Hanja

緡 • (min) (hangeul 민, revised min, McCune–Reischauer min, Yale min)
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