壬

See also: 千, 王, and 𡈼

壬 U+58EC, 壬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-58EC ← 士 [U+58EB] CJK Unified Ideographs 壭 → [U+58ED]

Translingual

Han character

壬 (Kangxi radical 33, 士+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹土 (HG), four-corner 2010₄, composition ⿱丿士(GJKV) or ⿱一士(HT))

Derived characters

• 任, 𠰃, 妊, 廷, 𨑳, 𢗖, 𢪭, 𭯺, 狅, 𣐅, 𭷗, 祍, 䏕, 𥄮, 衽, 紝 (纴), 䚾, 𦔽, 軠, 鈓 (𬬯), 𭐺, 飪 (饪)
• 𫧺, 𠁪, 𫡖, 𫡘, 𧠒, 丢, 㸒, 𡔟, 𡴍, 𡔨, 𣈂, 𭰶, 𩂐, 𩬎, 𡅚, 𡔞, 𢇦, 𫊟, 𢧌, 𨳝
• 𰃧, 䨙

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 243, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5639
• Dae Jaweon: page 483, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 417, character 1
• Unihan data for U+58EC

Chinese

trad.		壬
simp. #		壬
alternative forms		𡈼

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 壬
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

	Old Chinese
紝	*nɯm, *njɯm, *njɯms
鵀	*nɯm, *njɯm, *njɯms
拰	*nɯmʔ
賃	*nɯms
任	*njɯm, *njɯms
壬	*l̥ʰeːŋʔ, *njɯm
恁	*njɯm, *njɯmʔ
銋	*njɯm, *njɯmʔ
荏	*njɯmʔ
餁	*njɯmʔ
栠	*njɯmʔ
袵	*njɯmʔ
飪	*njɯmʔ
妊	*njɯms
衽	*njɯms

Characters in the same phonetic series (壬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

Pictogram (象形) : Possibly carrying pole with a point drawn in the middle, a meaning that was later transferred to 任 (rèn). As an alternative, it's a double-blade axe perhaps made of stone.

The pole is drawn like 工, however the two characters are unrelated; their correlation should belong to folk etymology.

Pronunciation

Variety	Location	edit 壬
Mandarin	Beijing	/ʐən³⁵/
	Harbin	/ʐən²⁴/
	Tianjin	/ʐən⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/ʐẽ⁴²/
	Qingdao	/iə̃⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/ʐən⁴²/
	Xi'an	/ʐẽ²⁴/
	Xining	/ʐə̃⁵³/
	Yinchuan	/ʐəŋ⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/ʐə̃n⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/ʐɤŋ⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/nən²¹³/
	Chengdu	/zən³¹/
	Guiyang	/zen²¹/
	Kunming	/ʐə̃³¹/
	Nanjing	/ʐən⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/ʐən⁵⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/zəŋ¹¹/
	Pingyao	/ʐəŋ¹³/
	Hohhot	/ʐə̃ŋ³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/ȵiŋ²³/ /zəŋ²³/
	Suzhou	/ȵin¹³/
	Hangzhou	/zen²¹³/
	Wenzhou	/ȵaŋ³¹/
Hui	Shexian	/iʌ̃⁴⁴/
	Tunxi	/ian⁴⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/ʐən¹³/
	Xiangtan	/in¹²/
Gan	Nanchang	/lɨn⁴⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/ŋim¹¹/
	Taoyuan	/ŋim¹¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/jɐm²¹/
	Nanning	/jɐm²¹/
	Hong Kong	/jɐm²¹/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/lim³⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/iŋ⁵³/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/iŋ²¹/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/zim³⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/zim³¹/

Rime
Character	壬
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	日 (38)
Final (韻)	侵 (139)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	如林切
Baxter	nyim
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ȵiɪm/
Pan Wuyun	/ȵim/
Shao Rongfen	/ȵʑjem/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ȵim/
Li Rong	/ȵiəm/
Wang Li	/ȵʑĭĕm/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȵʑi̯əm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	rén
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jam4

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	壬
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	rén
Middle Chinese	‹ nyim ›
Old Chinese	/*n[ə]m/
English	9th heavenly stem
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	壬
Reading #	2/2
No.	10809
Phonetic component	壬
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	任
Old Chinese	/*njɯm/
Notes	甲文作工，象機縷，爲紝初文，坙（經）字從之

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): rén (ren²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄣˊ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): ren²

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jam⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ngìm
• Northern Min (KCR): ǐng
• Eastern Min (BUC): ìng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): lîm / jîm / līm / jīm

  (Teochew, Peng'im): rim⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: rén
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: rén
    • Wade–Giles: jên²
    • Yale: rén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ren
    • Palladius: жэнь (žɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐən³⁵/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: ren²
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: rhen
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /zən²¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jam⁴
    • Yale: yàhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yem⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐm²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngìm
    • Hakka Romanization System: ngim^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ngim²
    • Sinological IPA: /ŋim¹¹/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: ǐng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iŋ²¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ìng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iŋ⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lîm
    • Tâi-lô: lîm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: liim
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /lim²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jîm
    • Tâi-lô: jîm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: jiim
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡zim¹³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /zim²³/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: līm
    • Tâi-lô: līm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lim
    • IPA (Taipei): /lim³³/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jīm
    • Tâi-lô: jīm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: jim
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /zim³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: rim⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: jĭm
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /d͡zim³⁵/

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• Dialectal data

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• Middle Chinese: nyim

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*n[ə]m/

  (Zhengzhang): /*njɯm/

Definitions

壬

1. the ninth of the ten heavenly stems
2. crafty; fawning
3. a surname
4. (Internet slang, derogatory) Eye dialect spelling of 人 (rén).

Coordinate terms

• (Chinese heavenly stems) 天干 (tiāngān); 甲 (jiǎ), 乙 (yǐ), 丙 (bǐng), 丁, 戊 (wù), 己 (jǐ), 庚 (gēng), 辛 (xīn), 壬 (rén), 癸 (guǐ) ^{(Category: zh:Chinese heavenly stems)}

Compounds

• 壬人 (rénrén)
• 壬公
• 壬林
• 小六壬

 

Descendants

• → Zhuang: nyaemz

References

• “壬”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Southern Min

• “Entry #782”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 壬

壬

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. ninth of the ten heavenly stems
2. ninth rank
   1. something I

Readings

• Go-on: にん (nin)
• Kan-on: じん (jin)
• Kun: みずのえ (mizunoe, 壬)
• Nanori: つぐ (tsugu)、みず (mizu)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
壬
じん Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

壬

Wikipedia ^ja

From Middle Chinese 壬 (nyim).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) じん [jíꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [d͡ʑĩɴ]

• Homophones: ジン, 人, 刃, 仁, 沈, 陣, 尋, 塵

Proper noun

壬(じん) • (Jin) 

1. the ninth of the ten heavenly stems; something I

   Hypernyms: 天干 (tenkan), 十干 (jikkan)

   Coordinate terms: 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
壬
みずのえ Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

水 (Mizu, “Water”, one of the Five Elements) +‎ の (no, attributive marker) +‎ 兄 (e, “elder brother”)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) みずのえ [mìzúnóꜜè] (Nakadaka – [3])
• IPA^(key): [mʲizɨno̞e̞]

Proper noun

壬(みずのえ) • (Mizunoe) ^{←みづのえ (Midunoe)?}

1. the ninth of the ten heavenly stems

   Hypernyms: 天干 (tenkan), 十干 (jikkan)

   Coordinate terms: 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸

Korean

Hanja

壬 • (im) (hangeul 임, revised im, McCune–Reischauer im)

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Vietnamese

Han character

壬: Hán Nôm readings: nhăm, nhám, nhằm, nhâm, râm, nhẹm

1. chữ Hán form of Nhâm (“ninth of the ten heavenly stems”).

   Hypernyms: 天干, 十干

   Coordinate terms: 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸

Compounds

• 壬午 (Nhâm Ngọ)
• 壬子 (Nhâm Tý)
• 壬寅 (Nhâm Dần)
• 壬戌 (Nhâm Tuất)
• 壬申 (Nhâm Thân)
• 壬辰 (Nhâm Thìn)