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粲

粲

Translingual

Han character

粲 (radical 119 米+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜水火木 (YEFD), four-corner 2790₄, composition ⿱𣦼米)

References

KangXi: page 909, character 23

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26966

Dae Jaweon: page 1335, character 19

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3148, character 14

Unihan data for U+7CB2

Chinese

simp. and trad.		粲

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (粲) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
餐	*sʰaːn
湌	*sʰaːn
粲	*sʰaːns
燦	*sʰaːns
璨	*sʰaːns
薒	*sʰaːns
殩	*sʰoːns

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): càn (can⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄘㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): caan³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: càn
  - Zhuyin: ㄘㄢˋ
  - Wade-Giles: ts'an⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsann
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰa̠n⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: caan³
  - Yale: chaan
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsaan³
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɑːn³³/

Middle Chinese: /t͡sʰɑn^H/▼

Rime
Character	粲
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	寒 (61)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	蒼案切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰɑn^H/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰɑn^H/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰɑn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰan^H/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰɑn^H/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰɑn^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰɑn^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	càn

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*[tsʰ]ˤar-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*sʰaːns/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	粲
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	càn
Middle Chinese	‹ tshan^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[tsʰ]ˤar-s/
English	bright and white
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	粲
Reading #	1/1
No.	1119
Phonetic component	粲
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	粲
Old Chinese	/*sʰaːns/
Notes	聲符本歺又，粲爲去蕪取精，與之同源

Definitions

粲

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Japanese

Kanji

粲

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Goon: さん (san)

Kan’on: さん (san)

Kun: いい (ii)

Korean

Hanja

粲 • ‎(chan) (hangeul 찬, revised chan, McCune-Reischauer ch'an, Yale chan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

Hán Việt: sán, xán

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References

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