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穿

穿

Translingual

Han character

穿 (radical 116 穴+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 十金一女竹 (JCMVH), four-corner 30241, composition ⿱穴牙)

References

  • KangXi: page 863, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25436
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1291, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2722, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+7A7F

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 穿

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 穴 ‎(“cave”) + 牙 ‎(“tooth”) – to penetrate through, to pass through.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 穿 穿
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 昌 (24) 昌 (24)
Final (韻) 仙 (78) 仙 (78)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 昌緣切 尺絹切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕʰiuᴇn/ /t͡ɕʰiuᴇnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕʰʷiɛn/ /t͡ɕʰʷiɛnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕʰjuæn/ /t͡ɕʰjuænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cʰwian/ /cʰwianH/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕʰiuɛn/ /t͡ɕʰiuɛnH/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕʰĭwɛn/ /t͡ɕʰĭwɛnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕʰi̯wɛn/ /t͡ɕʰi̯wɛnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chuān chuàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 穿
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 chuān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyhwen ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tʰo[n]/
English bore through

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 穿 穿
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 1638 1639
Phonetic
component		 穿 穿
Rime
group		 元 元
Rime
subdivision		 3 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 穿 釧
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰljon/ /*kʰljons/

Definitions

穿

  1. to penetrate; to pierce
  2. placed after verbs to indicate “thoroughly; completely”
  3. to pass through; to cross
  4. to string; to chain
  5. to wear; to put on (clothing); to have (clothing) on

See also

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

穿

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

穿 • ‎(cheon) (hangeul 천, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏn, Yale chen)

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