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劍

劍

劍 U+528D, 劍
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-528D
← 劌
[U+528C] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 劎 →
[U+528E]
See also: 剑

Translingual

Traditional 劍
Shinjitai 剣
Simplified 剑

Alternative forms

Han character

劍 (radical 18 刀+13, 15 strokes, cangjie input 人人中弓 (OOLN), four-corner 82800, composition ⿰僉刂)

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 144, character 45
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2228
  • Dae Jaweon: page 326, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 358, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+528D

Chinese

trad. 劍
simp. 剑
剣: A Jian with 鞘 ‎(qiào, “scabbard”).

Alternative forms

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 劍
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (僉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
厱 *raːm, *kʰreːm, *kʰlam
歛 *qʰlaːm
臉 *ɡr·reːmʔ, *skʰlam, *kramʔ
醶 *ɡr·reːmʔ, *skʰraːmʔ
鹼 *kreːmʔ, *skʰlam
薟 *ɡ·ram, *ɡ·ramʔ, *qʰram
匳 *ɡ·ram
獫 *ɡ·ram, *ɡ·ramʔ, *ɡ·rams, *qʰramʔ
蘞 *ɡ·ram, *ɡ·ramʔ, *qʰlam
籢 *ɡ·ram
斂 *ɡ·ramʔ, *ɡ·rams
瀲 *ɡ·ramʔ, *ɡ·rams
撿 *ɡ·ramʔ, *kramʔ
羷 *ɡ·ramʔ
殮 *ɡ·rams
簽 *skʰlam
僉 *skʰlam
憸 *skʰlam, *skʰlamʔ, *sqʰlam, *qʰramʔ
譣 *skʰlam, *qʰramʔ
檢 *kramʔ
瞼 *kramʔ
儉 *ɡramʔ
顩 *ŋramʔ, *rlɯmʔ, *kʰrɯmʔ
嬐 *ŋramʔ
嶮 *ŋramʔ, *hŋramʔ
噞 *ŋramʔ, *ŋrams
驗 *ŋrams
險 *qʰramʔ
劒 *kams
劍 *kams
𩏩 *qʰam

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from the hypothetical Proto-Altaic *k`èmá ‎(“sharp, sharp tool”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 劍
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 嚴 (145)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 居欠切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kɨɐmH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kiɐmH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kiɐmH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kɨamH/
Li
Rong		 /kiɐmH/
Wang
Li		 /kĭɐmH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki̯ɐmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 劍
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kjæmH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s.kr[a]m-s/
English sword

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 劍
Reading # 1/1
No. 10227
Phonetic
component		 僉
Rime
group		 談
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 劔
Old
Chinese		 /*kams/
Notes 原列梵韻作劒，此本說文籀文，集韻驗韻或體

Definitions

劍

  1. sword, dagger, sabre

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

劍

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 剣)

  1. sword

Readings

Compounds

Noun

劍 ‎(kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai kanji 剣, hiragana けん, romaji ken)

  1. sword

Korean

Hanja

劍 • ‎(geom) (hangeul 검, revised geom, McCune-Reischauer kŏm)

  1. sword, knife

Compounds

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Vietnamese

Han character

劍 (kiếm, ghém, gươm, kém, chém, sớm)

  1. sword

Compounds

Usage notes

  • Chữ Nôm. The modern Vietnamese word for sword is kiếm.

References

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