Translingual

Han character

筌 (radical 118 竹+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹人一土 (HOMG), four-corner 8810₄)

1. bamboo fish trap

References

• KangXi: page 882, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25995
• Dae Jaweon: page 1312, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2967, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7B4C

Cantonese

Hanzi

筌 ‎(Jyutping cyun4, Yale chyun4)

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: せん (sen)
• Kan’on: せん (sen)
• Kun: うえ (ue), うけ (uke)

Etymology 1

/uhe₂/: *upəj → upe → uɸe → uwe → ue.

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) うえ​ [ùéꜜ] (Odaka - [2])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɯᵝe̞]

Noun

筌 ‎(hiragana うえ, romaji ue, historical hiragana うへ)

1. a device placed in a river used to capture fish
   • 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki

     筌 音宣, 訓于閇也, 謂敎也

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) うけ​ [ùkéꜜ] (Odaka - [2])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɯᵝke̞]

Noun

筌 ‎(hiragana うけ, romaji uke)

1. a device placed in a river used to capture fish

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• On'yomi
• (Tokyo) せ​ん [séꜜǹ] (Atamadaka - [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [sẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

筌 ‎(hiragana せん, romaji sen)

1. a device placed in a river used to capture fish

References

1. 1 2 3 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

• Takeuchi, Rizō (1962) Nara Ibun: Volume 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō Shuppan, ISBN 978-4-490-30010-9.

Korean

Hanja

筌 • ‎(jeon) (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

筌 ‎(Pinyin quán (quan2), zhù (zhu4), Wade-Giles ch'üan², chu⁴)

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