錦

See also: 锦
錦 U+9326, 錦
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9326
← 錥
[U+9325] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 錧 →
[U+9327]

Translingual

Han character

錦 (radical 167, 金+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 金竹日月 (CHAB), four-corner 86127, composition ⿰釒帛)

References
  • KangXi: page 1311, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40569
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1812, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4222, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+9326

Chinese
trad. 錦
simp. 锦

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (金) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
淦 *kɯːm, *kɯːms
顉 *ŋɯːmʔ, *ŋ̊ʰrɯm, *ŋ̊ʰɯmʔ
金 *krɯm
錦 *krɯmʔ
欽 *kʰrɯm
菳 *kʰrɯm
嶔 *kʰrɯm
撳 *kʰrɯms
捦 *ɡrɯm
鵭 *ɡrɯm
唫 *ɡrɯmʔ, *ŋɡrɯm
鈙 *ɡrɯms
崟 *ŋɡrɯm
趛 *ŋɡrɯmʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *krɯmʔ) : phonetic 金 (OC *krɯm) + semantic 帛.

Pronunciation
Rime
Character 錦
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 侵 (140)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 居飲切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠiɪmX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚimX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kiemX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kjimX/
Li
Rong		 /kjəmX/
Wang
Li		 /kĭĕmX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki̯əmX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jǐn
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 錦
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jǐn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kimX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*Cə.k(r)[ə]mʔ/
English brocade

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 錦
Reading # 1/1
No. 6680
Phonetic
component		 金
Rime
group		 侵
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 錦
Old
Chinese		 /*krɯmʔ/

Definitions

錦

  1. brocade; tapestry
  2. embroidered
  3. bright and beautiful

Compounds
Derived terms from 錦

Japanese

Kanji
錦

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. brocade

Readings

Compounds
Compounds
  • 錦 (きん)繍 (しゅう) (kinshū)
  • 錦 (きん)嚢 (のう) (kinnō)

Etymology
Kanji in this term
錦
にしき
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Originally a compound of 丹 (ni, “red”) + 頻 (shiki, “repetition”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

Noun

錦 (hiragana にしき, rōmaji nishiki)

  1. brocade (generic name for weaving fabrics with various colored threads)
  2. a word expressing beauty (for example, colors or patterns) (Can we verify(+) this sense?)

Derived terms
Derived terms
  • 高 (こ)麗 (ま)錦 (にしき), 狛 (こま)錦 (にしき) (Koma nishiki)
  • 紅葉 (もみじ)の錦 (にしき) (momiji no nishiki, “brocade of autumn leaves”)
  • 大和 (やまと)錦 (にしき), 倭 (やまと)錦 (にしき) (Yamato nishiki)

Idioms
Idioms
  • 錦 (にしき)を飾 (かざ)る (nishiki o kazaru)
  • 錦 (にしき)を着 (き)て夜 (よる)行 (ゆ)くが如 (ごと)し (nishiki o kite yoru yuku ga gotoshi)

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

錦 • (geum)

  • Eumhun:
    • Sound (hangeul): 금 (revised: geum, McCune–Reischauer: kŭm, Yale: kum)
    • Name (hangeul): 비단 (revised: bidan, McCune–Reischauer: pidan)
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Compounds
  • 地錦 (지금)
  • 秋錦 (추금)

Vietnamese

Han character

錦 (cẩm, gấm, gắm, ngẫm)

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