jīn

ominous or sinister spirit

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangʔsim
ʔsims
Unicodetzìm

說文解字

精氣感祥。从示,㑴省聲。《春秋傳》曰:“見赤黑之𥛆。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica