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癬

癬

See also: 癣

Translingual

Han character

癬 (radical 104 疒+17, 22 strokes, cangjie input 大弓火手 (KNFQ), four-corner 00151, composition ⿸疒鮮)

References

  • KangXi: page 783, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22629
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1192, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2704, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+766C

Chinese

trad. 癬
simp. 癣

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (鮮) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鮮 *sen, *senʔ, *sens
廯 *sen, *senʔ
癬 *senʔ
蘚 *senʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *senʔ) : semantic 疒 + phonetic 鮮 ‎(OC *sen, *senʔ, *sens).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 癬
Mandarin Beijing /ɕyan²¹⁴/
Harbin /ɕyan²¹³/
Tianjin /ɕyan¹³/
Jinan /ɕyã⁵⁵/
Qingdao /ɕyã⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /syan⁵³/
Xi'an /ɕiã⁵³/
Xining /ɕyã⁵³/
Yinchuan /ɕyan⁵³/
Lanzhou /ɕyɛ̃n⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /ɕyan⁵¹/
Wuhan /ɕiɛn⁴²/
Chengdu /ɕyan⁵³/
Guiyang /ɕian⁴²/
Kunming /ɕiɛ̃⁵³/
Nanjing /syen²¹²/
/sien²¹²/
Hefei /ɕyĩ²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕye⁵³/
Pingyao
Hohhot /ɕie⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /ɕi³⁵/
Suzhou /siɪ⁵¹/
Hangzhou /ɕiẽ̞⁵³/
Wenzhou /ɕi³⁵/
Hui Shexian /ɕye³⁵/
Tunxi /siɛ³¹/
Xiang Changsha /siẽ⁴¹/
Xiangtan /siẽ⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /ɕyɵn²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /sien³¹/
Taoyuan /sien³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /sin³⁵/
Nanning /ɬyn³⁵/
Hong Kong /sin³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /sian⁵³/
/t͡sʰuã⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sʰiaŋ³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sʰyiŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /siaŋ⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /sin²¹³/
Rime
Character 癬
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 仙 (77)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 息淺切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /siᴇnX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /siɛnX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sjænX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /sianX/
Li
Rong		 /siɛnX/
Wang
Li		 /sĭɛnX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /si̯ɛnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xiǎn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 癬
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xuǎn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sjenX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[s]arʔ/
English ringworm

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 癬
Reading # 1/1
No. 13493
Phonetic
component		 鮮
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 獮
Old
Chinese		 /*senʔ/

Definitions

癬

  1. (dermatology, pathology) ringworm; tinea

Compounds

  • 頑癬／顽癣
  • 頭癬／头癣
  • 體癬／体癣
  • 髮癬／发癣
  • 魚鱗癬／鱼鳞癣 (yúlínxuǎn)
  • 黃癬／黄癣

Japanese

Kanji

癬

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

癬 • ‎(seon) (hangeul 선, revised seon, McCune-Reischauer sŏn, Yale sen)

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