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Translingual

Han character

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

  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.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔsɯːm, *ʔsrɯm
*ʔsluːm, *ʔsluːmʔ, *ʔsluːms, *ʔsrum
*ʔsluːm
*sʰluːmʔ, *sʰlɯːmʔ
*sʰluːmʔ, *ʔsluːb
*sʰlɯːmʔ, *zlam
*zluːm
*zluːm, *hl'iːnʔ
*sluːmʔ
*ʔslom
*zlam, *zɯm, *ljɯm
*zlam, *zɯm, *ljɯm
*zlom, *zloms
*ʔslɯːms
*sl'ɯm
*zlum
*ʔsrɯm
*ʔsrums

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (18) (13)
Final () (140) (159)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () Chongniu III I
Fanqie
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
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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 6694 6721
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔsɯːm/ /*ʔsrɯm/
Notes

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. ornamental hairpin

Readings

Etymology

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

/kamusaɕi//kanzaɕi/

Originally a compound of (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

(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 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

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(trâm, trám, trắm)

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