jīn

(interchangeable 襟) a garment of single thickness

Evolution

䘳 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
䘳 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

jīn

(interchangeable ) a garment of single thickness, lapel of a garment, collar of a robe formerly worn by the literati, therefore used for educated classes

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kr[ə]m

kim

jīn

collar or lapel


Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+4633

Shuowen

“,交衽也。从衣,金聲。”


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License