紧挨 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

jǐn'āi

be right next to

jǐn tense Simplified

Simplified form of 緊. Phonosemantic compound. 臤 represents the sound, while 糸 represents the meaning.

Components

qiān to gouge out an eye

Change in sound

紧 and 𰀡 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.

糸 Meaning component

mì, sī silk

Depicts a thread being tightened.

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Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode

āi near

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

hand

矣 Sound component

yǐ, xián particle of completed action

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	qlɯːʔ
	qrɯː
	qrɯːʔ

說文解字

擊背也。从手矣聲。

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

jǐn tense Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 臤 represents the sound, while 糸 represents the meaning.

Components

臤 Sound component

to gouge out an eye

Change in sound

緊 and 臤 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
緊 *C.qi[n]ʔ (I! no palatalization)
臤 kʰriːn

糸 Meaning component

mì, sī silk

Depicts a thread being tightened.

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	kjinX	C.qi[n]ʔ (I! no palatalization)	tight

說文解字

《說文》：“緊，纏絲急也。从臤，从絲省。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

紧 jǐn tense Simplified

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挨 āi near

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緊 jǐn tense Traditional

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Character Evolution

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說文解字

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jǐn tense Simplified

āi near

jǐn tense Traditional