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線
線
Translingual
Han character
線 (radical 120 糸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 女火竹日水 (VFHAE), four-corner 26932, composition ⿰糹泉)
References
- KangXi: page 930, character 5
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27641
- Dae Jaweon: page 1368, character 4
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3428, character 5
- Unihan data for U+7DDA
Chinese
| trad. | 線 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 线 | |
| alt. forms |
綫 缐 surname |
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Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (泉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 線 | *sqʰeːns |
| 泉 | *sɡʷen |
| 葲 | *sɡʷen |
| 灥 | *kʰʷjen, *sɢʷin |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sqʰeːns) : semantic 糹 + phonetic 泉 (OC *sɡʷen).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): sin3
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sien
- Min Dong (BUC): siáng
- Min Nan (POJ): sòaⁿ / siàn
- Wu (Wiktionary): xi (T2)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˋ
- Wade-Giles: hsien4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiann
- IPA (key): /ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: sin3
- Yale: sin
- Cantonese Pinyin: sin3
- IPA (key): /siːn³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sien
- Hakka Romanization System: xien
- Hagfa Pinyim: xian4
- IPA: /ɕi̯en⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: siáng
- IPA (key): /siɑŋ²¹³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sòaⁿ / siàn
- Tâi-lô: suànn / siàn
- Phofsit Daibuun: svoax, siexn
- IPA (Xiamen): /suã²¹/, /ɕiɛn²¹/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /suã⁴¹/, /ɕiɛn⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /suã²¹/, /ɕiɛn²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /suã¹¹/, /ɕiɛn¹¹/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /suã²¹/, /ɕiɛn²¹/
- Note: sòaⁿ - vernacular; siàn - literary.
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: xi (T2)
- IPA (key): /ɕi³⁴/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 線 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) |
| Final (韻) | 仙 (77) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 私箭切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/siᴇnH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/siɛnH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/sjænH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/sianH/ |
| Li Rong |
/siɛnH/ |
| Wang Li |
/sĭɛnH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/si̯ɛnH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
xiàn |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 線 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 10727 |
| Phonetic component |
泉 |
| Rime group |
元 |
| Rime subdivision |
2 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
線 |
| Old Chinese |
/*sqʰeːns/ |
| Notes | 古文綫 |
Definitions
線
- thread
- thread-line object; wire; line; string; ray
- (geometry) line
- route; path; line
- demarcation line; boundary; border; brink
- clue; sign
- secret agent
- ideological or political line
- Classifier for for abstract nouns or numerals indicating few or little.
- A surname.
Compounds
Derived terms from 線
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Japanese
Kanji
線
Readings
Compounds
- 光線 (kōsen): a ray of light
- 新幹線 (shinkansen): A Japanese super express, bullet train, a line which extremely fast trains run on in Japan; shinkansen
- 宇宙線 (uchūsen): cosmic rays
- 紫外線 (shigaisen): ultraviolet rays
- 赤外線 (sekigaisen): infrared rays
- X線 (X-sen): X-rays
- 不可視光線 (fukashikōsen): an invisible ray of light
- 線圈 (senken): a coil, a solenoid
Noun
Korean
Hanja
線 • (seon) (hangeul 선, revised seon, McCune-Reischauer sŏn, Yale sen)
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Vietnamese
Han character
線 (tuyến)
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