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箭

箭

Translingual

Han character

箭 (radical 118 竹+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹廿月弓 (HTBN), four-corner 88221, composition ⿱⺮前)

Synonyms

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 889, character 34
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26193
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1317, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2994, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+7BAD

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 箭

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (前) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
媊 *ʔslel, *ʔslenʔ
煎 *ʔslen, *ʔslens
湔 *ʔslen, *ʔslens, *ʔsleːn, *zleːn
鬋 *ʔslen, *ʔslenʔ, *ʔslens
剪 *ʔslenʔ
翦 *ʔslenʔ
譾 *ʔslenʔ
揃 *ʔslenʔ
箭 *ʔslens
葥 *ʔslens
前 *zleːn
騚 *zleːn
歬 *zleːn

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 箭
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 仙 (77)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 子賤切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡siᴇnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡siɛnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sjænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sianH/
Li
Rong		 /t͡siɛnH/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sĭɛnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡si̯ɛnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 箭
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsjenH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ts]en-s/
English arrow

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 箭
Reading # 1/1
No. 10250
Phonetic
component		 前
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 箭
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔslens/

Definitions

箭

  1. (weapon) arrow
  2. type of bamboo

Synonyms

  • (arrow): 矢 (shǐ)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

箭

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

箭 (tiến, tiễn, tên)

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