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Chinese

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very large; huge; tremendous
very large; huge; tremendous; gigantic
 
man; person; people
trad. (巨人)
simp. #(巨人)

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (30) (38)
Final () (22) (43)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter gjoX nyin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɡɨʌX/ /ȵiɪn/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɡiɔX/ /ȵin/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɡiɔX/ /ȵʑjen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/gɨə̆X/ /ȵin/
Li
Rong
/ɡiɔX/ /ȵiĕn/
Wang
Li
/ɡĭoX/ /ȵʑĭĕn/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/gi̯woX/ /ȵʑi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
rén
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
geoi6 jan4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
rén
Middle
Chinese
‹ nyin ›
Old
Chinese
/*ni[ŋ]/
English (other) person

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 7047 10800
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡaʔ/ /*njin/

Noun

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巨人

  1. giant
    巨人肩膀 [MSC, trad. and simp.]
    zhàn zài jùrén de jiānbǎng shàng [Pinyin]
    to stand on the shoulders of giants

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic (巨人):

Japanese

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Kanji in this term
きょ
Grade: S
じん
Grade: 1
kan'on
 
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Etymology

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Ultimately from Middle Chinese 巨人 (MC gjoX nyin).

The professional baseball team is an abbreviation of one of its original names, the 東京巨人軍 (Tōkyō Kyojin-gun, Tokyo Giants).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(きょ)(じん) (kyojin

  1. [early 1900s] a giant:
    1. (mythology) a human of very great size, titan
      (しん)(げき)(きょ)(じん)Shingeki no KyojinAttack on Titan (literally, “the Advancing Giants”)
    2. a very tall person
      Synonyms: 大男 (ōotoko), 巨漢 (kyokan)
      Antonym: 小人 (kobito)
    3. a person of extraordinary strength or power, bodily or intellectual
      Synonym: 偉人 (ijin)

Derived terms

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Idioms

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See also

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Proper noun

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(きょ)(じん) (Kyojin

  1. (baseball, colloquial) Synonym of 読売ジャイアンツ (Yomiuri Jaiantsu): the Yomiuri Giants

References

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  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

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Hanja in this term

Noun

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巨人 (geoin) (hangeul 거인)

  1. hanja form? of 거인 (giant)

Vietnamese

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chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Noun

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巨人

  1. chữ Hán form of cự nhân (giant).