琴

琴 (radical 96, 玉+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一土人戈弓 (MGOIN), four-corner 1120₇, composition ⿱玨今)

• KangXi: page 735, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21079
• Dae Jaweon: page 1147, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1119, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7434

Historical forms of the character 琴
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡrɯm) : semantic 珡 + phonetic 今 (OC *krɯm).

琴

1. (music) qin (“Chinese zithers”), referring to any of several traditional Chinese musical instruments, most famously the guqin
2. ^† to play the qin

   • 象往入舜宮，舜在床琴。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     象往入舜宫，舜在床琴。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Mencius, circa 4^th century BCE

     Xiàng wǎng rù Shùn gōng, Shùn zài chuáng qín. [Pinyin]

     Xiang entered Shun's room, and found Shun on his bed playing the zither.

3. (music) collective name for certain musical instruments, usually of string or keyboard types, such as piano, organ, violin, cello, huqin, accordion, harmonica, etc.

• → Burmese: ခင် (hkang)
• → English: qin
• → Thai: ขิม (kǐm) (via Min Nan)

See 琴日.

琴

1. (Cantonese) yesterday

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. zither
2. any stringed or keyboard instrument

• Go-on: ごん (gon)^{←ごん (gon, historical)←ごむ (gomu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: きん (kin, Jōyō)^{←きん (kin, historical)←きむ (kimu, ancient)}
• Kun: こと (koto, 琴, Jōyō)

琴 (koto): a Japanese koto, a kind of zither.

⟨ko₂to₂⟩ → */kətə/ → /koto/

From Old Japanese, attested in the three major literature works of the Nara period: the Kojiki (712 CE), the Nihon Shoki (720 CE), and the Man'yōshū (c. 759 CE).[1]

Possibly derived from a compound of elements 木 (ko, “tree, wood”, combining form) +‎ 音 (oto, “sound”), with the additional medial o dropped by haplology.

• (Japanese zither): 箏

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) こ​と [kóꜜtò] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [ko̞to̞]

琴 (hiragana こと, rōmaji koto)

1. a koto (Japanese zither)
   • 711–712, Kojiki (poem 74)

     加 (か)良 (ら)怒 (の)袁 (を)志 (し)本 (ほ)爾 (に)夜 (や)岐 (き)斯 (し)賀 (が)阿 (あ)麻 (ま)理 (り)許 (こ)登 (と)爾 (に)都 (つ)久 (く)理 (り)賀 (か)岐 (き)比 (ひ)久 (く)夜 (や)由 (ゆ)良 (ら)能 (の)斗 (と)能 (の)斗 (と)那 (な)賀 (か)能 (の)伊 (い)久 (く)理 (り)爾 (に)布 (ふ)禮 (れ)多 (た)都 (つ)那 (な)豆 (づ)能 (の)紀 (き)能 (の)佐 (さ)夜 (や)佐 (さ)夜 (や) [Man'yōgana]

     枯 (から)野 (の)を塩 (しほ)に焼 (や)き其 (し)が余 (あま)り琴 (こと)に作 (つく)り掻 (か)き弾 (ひ)くや由 (ゆ)良 (ら)の門 (と)の門 (と)中 (なか)のいくりに振 (ふ)れ立 (た)つなづの木 (き)のさやさや [Modern spelling]

     Karano o shio ni yaki shi ga amari koto ni tsukuri kakihiku ya Yura-no-to no tonaka no ikuri ni furetatsu nazu no ki no sayasaya

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2. (colloquial) a guzheng, zheng (Chinese zither), where the koto was based on [since after the Edo period]

   Synonym: 箏 (sō)

琴 (hiragana こと, rōmaji Koto)

1. a female given name
2. a surname

/kim/ → /kimʉ/ → /kiɴ/

From Middle Chinese 琴 (MC ɡˠiɪm). The kan'on pronunciation, so likely a later borrowing.

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) き​ん [kíꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [kʲĩɴ]

琴 (hiragana きん, rōmaji kin)

1. a guqin, qin (seven-stringed Chinese zither)

   Synonym: 古琴 (kokin)

琴 (hiragana きん, rōmaji Kin)

1. a female given name
2. a surname​.

• 箏 (そう) (sō, “guzheng, zheng”): a Chinese zither similar to the Japanese koto
• 瑟 (しつ) (shitsu, “se”): another kind of ancient Chinese zither

Various nanori readings.

琴 (hiragana くむ, rōmaji Kumu)

1. a surname​.

琴 (hiragana ぐん, rōmaji Gun)

1. a surname​.

琴 (hiragana ことえ, rōmaji Kotoe)

1. a female given name

琴 (hiragana ことざき, rōmaji Kotozaki)

1. a surname​.

琴 (hiragana ことみ, rōmaji Kotomi)

1. a female given name

琴 • (geum) (hangeul 금, revised geum, McCune–Reischauer kŭm, Yale kum)

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• 伽倻琴 (가야금, gayageum, kayagŭm)

琴 (cầm)

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