ᡥᠠᠴᡳᠨ

Manchu

Etymology

Borrowed from some variety of Old Korean; compare Middle Korean 가지 (kaci, “kind”), whence Korean 가지 (gaji).

This root is also found in other Tungusic languages, e.g. Solon, Oroch, Udehe, Ulcha, Orok, Nanai, but inner-Tungusic correspondences indicate that in all these languages it is a loan from Manchu. It is not attested in Ewen, Arman and Evenki, which had no or rather limited contact with Jurchen and/or Manchu.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): [χa.t͡ɕʰin]

Noun

ᡥᠠᠴᡳᠨ • (hacin)

1. kind; type; sort
2. item
3. Lantern Festival; the fifteenth day of the first month of the Chinese calendar
4. holiday; festival (in general)

   ᡥᠠᠴᡳᠨ
   ᠠᡵᠠᠮᠪᡳ ― hacin arambi ― to celebrate a festival