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U+82AF, 芯
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82AF

[U+82AE]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+82B0]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 140, +4, 8 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 7 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿心 (TP), four-corner 44330, composition )

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1020, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30732
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1478, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3185, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+82AF

Chinese[edit]

trad.
simp. #

Pronunciation 1[edit]


Definitions[edit]

  1. pith from the common rush (Juncus effusus), used as lamp wick
  2. lamp wick
  3. (in general) core material (of something); centre; wick; pencil lead

Compounds[edit]

Pronunciation 2[edit]


Definitions[edit]

  1. Only used in 芯子 (xìnzi, “fuse; tongue of a snake”).

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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Kanji in this term
しん
Grade: S
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese .

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

(しん) (shin

  1. core, heart
    トイレットペーパー(しん)
    toiretto pēpā no shin
    inner cardboard tube of a roll of toilet paper
  2. pencil lead
    ()(しん)
    kaeshin
    replacement lead
  3. wick

References[edit]

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006) 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

(sim) (hangeul , revised sim, McCune–Reischauer sim, Yale sim)

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