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簪

簪

Translingual

Han character

簪 (radical 118 竹+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹一山日 (HMUA), four-corner 88601, composition ⿱⺮朁)

  1. hairpin, clasp
  2. wear in one's hair

References

  • KangXi: page 900, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26558
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1326, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3014, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+7C2A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 簪

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 簪
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (兓) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
簪 *ʔsɯːm, *ʔsrɯm
撍 *ʔsluːm, *ʔsluːmʔ, *ʔsluːms, *ʔsrum
鐕 *ʔsluːm
憯 *sʰluːmʔ, *sʰlɯːmʔ
噆 *sʰluːmʔ, *ʔsluːb
朁 *sʰlɯːmʔ, *zlam
蠶 *zluːm
蚕 *zluːm, *hl'iːnʔ
糣 *sluːmʔ
熸 *ʔslom
鬵 *zlam, *zɯm, *ljɯm
灊 *zlam, *zɯm, *ljɯm
潛 *zlom, *zloms
僭 *ʔslɯːms
兓 *sl'ɯm
嶜 *zlum
兂 *ʔsrɯm
譖 *ʔsrums

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 簪 簪
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 莊 (18) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 侵 (140) 覃 (159)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) Chongniu III I
Fanqie 側吟切 作含切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ʃˠiɪm/ /t͡sʌm/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʈ͡ʂᵚim/ /t͡səm/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ʃiem/ /t͡sɒm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʈ͡ʂjim/ /t͡səm/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ʃjəm/ /t͡sᴀm/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ʃĭĕm/ /t͡sɒm/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʈ͡ʂi̯əm/ /t͡săm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhēn zān
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 簪 簪
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zān zān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsom › ‹ tsrim ›
Old
Chinese		 /*Cə.tsˤ[ə]m/ /*tsr[ə]m/
English hairpin hairpin

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 簪 簪
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 6694 6721
Phonetic
component		 兓 兓
Rime
group		 侵 侵
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 簪 旡
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsɯːm/ /*ʔsrɯm/
Notes 說文同兂俗體

Definitions

簪

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Japanese

Kanji

簪

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. ornamental hairpin

Readings

Etymology

簪 (kanzashi): A 舞子 ‎(maiko, “apprentice geisha”) with the willow-themed kanzashi for the month of June.

/kamusaɕi/ → /kanzaɕi/

Originally a compound of 髪 ‎(kamu, “hair, hair of the head”, Old Japanese combining form) +‎ 挿し ‎(sashi, “sticker-through (something that sticks through)”, the 連用形 ‎(ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 挿す sasu “to stick through, to insert”).[1][2]The sashi changes to zashi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

簪 ‎(hiragana かんざし, romaji kanzashi)

  1. a hairpin, particularly a fancy decorative hairpin used in Japanese women's hairstyles

Usage notes

This is most commonly spelled in kanji as 簪 or in kana as かんざし.

The alternative kanji spellings are attested, but seldom used in modern Japanese.

References

  1. ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  3. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

簪 • ‎(jam) (hangeul 잠, revised jam, McCune-Reischauer cham, Yale cam)

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Vietnamese

Han character

簪 (trâm, trám, trắm)

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