仞
仞 — in
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
How 仞 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 仞 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 人, 刃.
Japanese words with 仞
- 仞じん ren (ancient Chinese measure of height, depth, etc.; between 1-3 meters)
- 九仞きゅうじん great height
- 壁立千仞へきりつせんじん precipitous cliff of great height, metaphor for absolute nature of Buddhist truth
- 九仞の功を一簣に虧くきゅうじんのこうをいっきにかく to fail one step short of great success; to fall at the last hurdle
Characters sharing the phonetic 刃
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “인” in Korean.
Other hanja read “인”
Other hanja with radical 人
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