Etymograph

English

Jin

Jin comes from Chinese 晉.

  1. Chinesemodern晉Jìn
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1984Jin

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Chinesemodern晉Jìn
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1984Jin

Earliest quotation: 1984, Zhuang Weiji, Jews in Old China: Studies by Chinese Scholars: “Between 1946 and 1948 in the ruins of the…”

The story

The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 晉 /晋 (Jìn), adopted as the name of a river in Shanxi in antiquity. As a Zhou state, from the renaming of the marchland Tang (唐) by its second marquis Ji Xie when he relocated to the Jin River c. 1000 BC. As a river in Fujian, named for the empire, which settled its banks with colonizers from China's Central Plains.

Every English word from Chinese 晉

Another origin of Jin

  1. Koreanmodern진(晉)晉
  2. EnglishtodayJin

Another origin of Jin

  1. Mandarinmodern金Jīnliterally ‘gold, golden’
  2. EnglishtodayJin

As a surname, legendarily derived from the descendants of Shaohao who took a golden phoenix as their tribal emblem. As an area and town in Shaanxi, named for the placer deposits of gold on the Yue River. As a Jurchen empire and dynastic name, a Chinese calque of Jurchen name of the Ashi River within modern Harbin, preserved in Chinese transcription as 按出虎 (Ànchūhǔ) (Middle Chinese: ʔan-tsyhwit-xu).

Another origin of Jin

  1. Chinesemodern錦Jǐn
  2. EnglishtodayJin

Another origin of Jin

  1. Chinesemodern靳Jìn
  2. EnglishtodayJin

As a surname, legendarily derived from Zhurong.

Another origin of Jin

  1. Koreanmodern진jin
  2. EnglishtodayJin

As the medieval precursor of Balhae, originally Chinese 震, possibly intended as a variant of the original state's name (Middle Chinese: dzyin) or to signify "thunderclap", "shock", "tremor", etc. As a surname, the modern Korean form of originally separate names derived from Chinese 陳 /陈 (chén), 秦 (Qín), 眞 /真 (zhēn), as well as 晉 above.

Another origin of Jin

  1. Japanesemodern仁literally ‘benevolence’
  2. EnglishtodayJin

Today it means

name A river (晉水) in Shanxi Province, China, emptying into the Fen River.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Chinese 晉 / Jin

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