qīn

coverlet

Components

Sound component
jīn now
Meaning component
clothes

cloth

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartkhim[k]ʰ(r)[ə]mcoverlet
Zhengzhangkʰrɯm
Unicodekyim

說文解字

大被。从衣今聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica