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吟

yín

sing

Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 今 represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

今 sound component

今  Sound component

jīn

  

now

Evolution

吟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
吟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
吟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
吟 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
吟 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

吟  

yín

sing, hum; recite; type of poetry; to chant; to recite; to moan; to groan; cry (of certain animals and insects); song (ancient poem)

吟 (唫) 

yín

old variant of 吟[yín]

Most common words with 吟
Freq.
Word
Meaning

呻吟

to moan

吟

to chant

沉吟

to mutter to oneself irresolutely

吟唱

to chant

吟诗

to recite poetry

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-qʰ(r)[ə]m

ngim

yín

chant, intone


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.7391% of movies

2696th most common character in movies

2015th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+541F

Shuowen

“吟，呻也。从口，今聲。，吟或从音。訡，或从言。”


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