芯

芯 U+82AF, 芯
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82AF
← 芮
[U+82AE] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 芰 →
[U+82B0]

Translingual

Han character

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

References
  • 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
trad. 芯
simp. # 芯

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

芯

  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

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

芯

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

Japanese

Kanji
芯

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Etymology
Kanji in this term
芯
しん
Grade: S
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 芯.

Pronunciation

Noun

芯(しん) • (shin) 

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

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

Korean

Hanja

芯 • (sim) (hangeul 심, revised sim, McCune–Reischauer sim, Yale sim)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.