印

Glyph origin
– a hand suppressing a kneeling person.

According to 羅振玉 in his book 《增訂殷墟書契考釋》(1915), the character is an ideogram of a hand suppressing a kneeling person. The character (to suppress) was used to preserve the original meaning.

Definitions

 * 1) stamp; seal
 * 2) trace; mark; sign
 * 3) to tally
 * 4)  to engrave
 * 5) to print
 * 1) to tally
 * 2)  to engrave
 * 3) to print
 * 1) to print

Descendants
Others:

Etymology 2
Transliteration character.

Etymology 1
From.

Affix

 * 1) stamp, seal
 * 2) trace, mark, sign
 * 3) printing

Derived terms

 * : affixing a seal
 * : seal on a document
 * : signature
 * : seal
 * :branding mark


 * : India–Pakistan
 * : China–India
 * : Japan–India

Noun

 * 1) stamp, seal
 * 2)  mudra; symbolic hand gesture

Etymology
From.

Usage notes
In news headlines, this is usually written solely in the hanja form, even in contemporary Korean text otherwise devoid of any hanja.