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喘

喘

喘 U+5598, 喘
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5598
← 喗
[U+5597] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 喙 →
[U+5599]

Translingual

Han character

喘 (radical 30 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口山一月 (RUMB), four-corner 62027, composition ⿰口耑)

  1. pant, gasp, breathe heavily

References

  • KangXi: page 198, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3946
  • Dae Jaweon: page 420, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 655, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5598

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 喘

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 喘
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (耑) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
揣 *toːlʔ, *sʰrolʔ
褍 *toːlʔ, *toːn
惴 *tjols
圌 *djol, *djon
篅 *djol, *djon
瑞 *djols
端 *toːn
剬 *toːn, *tjonʔ
偳 *toːn, *tʰoːn
鍴 *toːn
耑 *toːn
踹 *toːns, *djonʔ
湍 *tʰoːn, *tjon
煓 *tʰoːn
貒 *tʰoːn, *tʰoːns
諯 *stʰons, *tjon, *tʰjons, *djon
顓 *tjon
喘 *tʰjonʔ
遄 *djon
輲 *djon
椯 *djon
歂 *djon, *djonʔ
腨 *djonʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 喘
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 昌 (24)
Final (韻) 仙 (78)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 昌兖切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕʰiuᴇnX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕʰʷiɛnX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕʰjuænX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cʰwianX/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕʰiuɛnX/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕʰĭwɛnX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕʰi̯wɛnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chuǎn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 喘
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 chuǎn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyhwenX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[tʰ]orʔ/
English to pant

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 喘
Reading # 1/1
No. 2517
Phonetic
component		 耑
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 舛
Old
Chinese		 /*tʰjonʔ/

Definitions

喘

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Japanese

Kanji

喘

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

喘 • ‎(cheon) (hangeul 천, revised cheon, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

喘 (suyễn, suyển, siễn)

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