紺

紺 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女火廿一 (VFTM), four-corner 2497₀, composition ⿰糹甘)

1. dark blue or reddish color

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 920, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27362
• Dae Jaweon: page 1352, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3378, character 12
• Unihan data for U+7D3A

Historical forms of the character 紺
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kɯːms) : semantic 糸 (“silk; thread”) + phonetic 甘 (OC *kaːm).

An areal word. Compare Proto-Tai *klamᴮ (“dark (red)”) (whence Thai คล้ำ (klám, “dark”)), Proto-Austronesian *kelam (“dark”) (Schuessler, 2007). See also 黔 and 黮.

紺

1. purple; violet; blackish red

Borrowed from Japanese 紺 (kon), from Middle Chinese 紺 (kʌm^H), see previous etymology for detail.

紺

1. (Taiwanese Hokkien) navy blue; dark blue

• 紺色／绀色

• “紺”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. navy blue

• Go-on: こん (kon, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: かん (kan)

• (Tokyo) こ​ん [kóꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
• IPA^(key): [kõ̞ɴ]

紺(こん) • (kon) 

1. navy blue, dark blue

From Middle Chinese 紺 (MC komH). Recorded as Middle Korean 감〯 (kǎm) (Yale: kǎm) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ka̠m]
• Phonetic hangul: [감]

Wikisource 紺 (eumhun 감색 감 (gamsaek gam))

1. Hanja form^? of 감 (“navy blue; dark blue”).

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

紺: Hán Nôm readings: cám, tim, tím

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