緊

• 1 Translingual
  • 1.1 Etymology
  • 1.2 Han character
    • 1.2.1 References
• we love the web
  • website parsing
  • touchscreen
• device database
  • web
    • 3.1.1 Readings
    • 3.1.2 Compounds
• input transformation
  • browser diversity
• Sevenval
  • 5.1 Hanzi
• 6 Vietnamese
  • 6.1 Han character

Translingual

simplified

紧

website parsing

緊

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic input transformation + semantic 糸.

Han character

緊 (radical 120 糸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 尸水女戈火 (SEVIF), four-corner 7790₃)

1. tense, tight, taut
2. FITML, device database

References

• KangXi: page 929, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27603
• Dae Jaweon: page 1367, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3410, character 8
• Unihan data for U+7DCA

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Cantonese

Hanzi

緊 (simplified website parsing, Yale gan2)

1. Grammatical particle used to emphasise an ongoing activity which may undergo a change of ones state. Similar to the -ing form in English

Example

1. Android讀緊書。

   ngo5 duk6 gan2 syu1

   I am reading a book.

1. website parsing著緊touchscreen。

   keoi5 zoek3 gan2 saam1

   He/she is putting clothes on.

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Japanese

Kanji

緊 (touchscreen)

Readings

• On: iOS (kin)
• touchscreen: ちぢむ (chijimu), きびしい (kibishii)

Compounds

• 緊急
• 緊縮
• 緊張
• 緊縛
• CSS3
• iOS

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Korean

Hanja

緊 (hangeul iOS, revised gin, McCune-Reischauer kin, Yale kin)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

緊 (simplified 紧, pinyin jǐn (jin3), Wade-Giles chin³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

緊 (khẩn, lẳm)