Chinese

認

rèn
to recognize; to know; to understand; to acknowledge
  • Phono-semantic compound 形聲
  • HSK 1
  • TOCFL 5
  • radical 言
  • 14 strokes

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Origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *njɯns, *njɯŋs): semantic 言 (“speech”) + phonetic 忍 (OC *njɯnʔ).

Compare Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-njan (“to hear; to listen”) (STEDT); cognate with Tibetan ཉན (nyan, “to listen”), Mizo en (“to look; to look at”). Schuessler (2007) suggests another cognate Jingpho non⁵⁵ (“to think; to consider”).

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Lineage

  • meaningChinese言 “to say; to speak; to talk”
  • soundChinese忍 “to endure; to bear; to suffer”
    • soundChinese刃 “blade; knife edge”
    • meaningChinese心 “heart (Classifier: 顆／颗 m; 個／个 c; 粒 mn)”

Related: Tibetan ཉན, Mizo en, Jingpho non⁵⁵

Words built on it: 認為, 認識

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