朕

朕	U+6715, 朕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6715

← 朔
[U+6714]

CJK Unified Ideographs

朖 →
[U+6716]

Translingual

Han character

朕 (radical 74, 月+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 月廿大 (BTK), four-corner 7823₄, composition ⿰月关)

Derived characters

勝, 塍, 螣, 縢, 𠗲, 滕, 黱, 騰, 幐, 賸, 榺, 謄

References

KangXi: page 505, character 19

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14361

Dae Jaweon: page 884, character 12

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2071, character 5

Unihan data for U+6715

Chinese

simp. and trad.		朕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 朕
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (朕) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
黱	*l'ɯːs
朕	*l'ɯmʔ
鰧	l'ɯmʔ, l'ɯːŋ
螣	l'ɯmʔ, l'ɯːŋ, *l'ɯːɡ
栚	*l'ɯmʔ
眹	*l'ɯnʔ
騰	*l'ɯːŋ
滕	*l'ɯːŋ
縢	*l'ɯːŋ
儯	*l'ɯːŋ
幐	l'ɯːŋ, l'ɯːŋs
藤	*l'ɯːŋ
謄	*l'ɯːŋ
膡	l'ɯːŋ, hljɯŋs, *lɯŋs
籐	*l'ɯːŋ
勝	hljɯŋ, hljɯŋs
蕂	*hljɯŋs
榺	*hljɯŋs
塍	*ɦljɯŋ
媵	ljɯŋs, lɯŋs
賸	ɦljɯŋs, lɯŋs

Simplified from 𦩎 (舟 → 月 and 灷 → 关), corruption of an ideogrammic compound (會意) : 舟 (“boat”) + 丨 (“item”) + 廾 (“two hands”), seen in the oracle bone script and bronze inscriptions, originally meaning “to mend a boat”. It was later borrowed to be used as a first-person pronoun.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhèn (zhen⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄓㄣˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zam⁶
Min Dong (BUC): dêng
Min Nan (POJ): tīm
Wu (Wiktionary): zen (T3)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: zhèn
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄣˋ
  - Wade–Giles: chên⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jenn
  - IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂən⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: zam⁶
  - Yale: jahm
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzam⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: zem⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐm²²/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: dêng
  - IPA ^(key): /tɛiŋ²⁴²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tīm
  - Tâi-lô: tīm
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dim
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tim²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tim⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tim²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tim³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tim³³/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: zen (T3)
  - IPA ^(key): /z̻əɲ²³/

Middle Chinese: /ɖˠiɪm^X/▼

Rime
Character	朕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	侵 (140)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	Chongniu III
Fanqie	直稔切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖˠiɪm^X/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖᵚim^X/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡiem^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖjim^X/
Li Rong	/ȡjəm^X/
Wang Li	/ȡĭĕm^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȡʱi̯əm^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhèn

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*lrəmʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*l'ɯmʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	朕
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhèn
Middle Chinese	‹ drim^X ›
Old Chinese	/*lrəmʔ/
English	I, we, our
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	朕
Reading #	1/1
No.	17110
Phonetic component	朕
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	朕
Old Chinese	/*l'ɯmʔ/

Definitions

朕

I; my (reserved for use by the emperor after the Qin Dynasty)
omen

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 我 (“I”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		吾, 我, 私, 余, 予, 台, 朕
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		我
Mandarin	Beijing	我
	Taiwan	我
	Jinan	我, 俺
	Xi'an	我
	Wuhan	我
	Chengdu	我
	Yangzhou	我
	Hefei	我
Cantonese	Guangzhou	我
	Hong Kong	我
	Taishan	我
	Yangjiang	我
Gan	Nanchang	我
Hakka	Meixian	𠊎
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	𠊎
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	𠊎
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	𠊎
	Dongshi (Dabu)	𠊎
	Hsinchu (Raoping)	𠊎
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	𠊎
Jin	Taiyuan	我
Min Bei	Jian'ou	我
Min Dong	Fuzhou	我, 奴
Min Nan	Xiamen	我, 阮
	Quanzhou	我, 阮
	Zhangzhou	我, 阮
	Taipei	我, 阮
	Kaohsiung	我, 阮
	Penang	我
	Philippines (Manila)	我
	Chaozhou	我
Wu	Shanghai	我, 吾, 阿拉
	Suzhou	我, 奴
	Wenzhou	我
	Ningbo	我, 我儂, 像我
Xiang	Changsha	我
Xiang	Shuangfeng	我, 卬

Compounds

兆朕
朕兆

朕命

朕躬 (zhèngōng)

Japanese

Kanji

朕

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

I (used by royalty)

Readings

Go-on: じん (jin)^{←じん (zin, historical)}^{←ぢむ (dimu, ancient)}
Kan-on: ちん (chin, Jōyō)^{←ちん (tin, historical)}^{←ちむ (timu, ancient)}
Kun: われ (ware, 朕); われ (ware, 朕れ); きざし (kizashi, 朕し)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
朕
ちん Grade: S
on’yomi

Pronoun

朕 (hiragana ちん, rōmaji chin)

(used by royalty) I, me

Korean

Hanja

朕 • (jim) (hangeul 짐, revised jim, McCune–Reischauer chim, Yale cim)

I (used by royalty, usually an emperor)

Vietnamese

Han character

朕: Hán Việt readings: trẫm
朕: Nôm readings: trũm, chũm

Hán tự form of trẫm (“I; me”). (only used by a monarch)

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