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陝
陝
Translingual
Han character
陝 (radical 170 阜+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 弓中大人人 (NLKOO), four-corner 74238, composition ⿰⻖㚒)
- (geography) The Shan Pass in Shanzhou, Henan, through which the Yellow River flows into the North China Plain
 - (historical geography) Shan County (陝縣), a former division of Henan
 - (later, by extension, geography) any mountain pass
 - Abbreviation of 陝西: Shaanxi.
 
References
- KangXi: page 1351, character 14
 - Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41657
 - Dae Jaweon: page 1853, character 25
 - Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4130, character 3
 - Unihan data for U+965D
 
Chinese
| trad. | 陝 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 陕 | |
Glyph origin
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hljemʔ) : semantic 阜 + phonetic 㚒.
Pronunciation
-  Mandarin
-  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
 - Zhuyin: ㄕㄢˇ
 - Wade-Giles: shan3
 - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shaan
 - IPA (key): /ʂa̠n²¹⁴/
 
 
 -  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
 -  Cantonese
-  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: sim2
 - Yale: sím
 - Cantonese Pinyin: sim2
 - IPA (key): /siːm³⁵/
 
 
 -  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
 -  Min Nan
-  (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siám
 - Tâi-lô: siám
 - Phofsit Daibuun: siarm
 - IPA (Xiamen): /ɕiam⁵³/
 - IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiam⁵⁵⁴/
 - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiam⁵³/
 - IPA (Taipei): /ɕiam⁵³/
 - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕiam⁴¹/
 
 
 -  (Hokkien)
 
-  Dialectal data▼
 
| Variety | Location | 陝 | 
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /ʂan²¹⁴/ | 
| Harbin | /ʂan²¹³/ | |
| Tianjin | 
/ʂan¹³/  /san¹³/  | 
|
| Jinan | /ʂã⁵⁵/ | |
| Qingdao | /ʃã⁵⁵/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /ʂan⁵³/ | |
| Xi'an | /ʂã⁵³/ | |
| Xining | /ʂã⁵³/ | |
| Yinchuan | /ʂan⁵³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /ʂɛ̃n⁴⁴²/ | |
| Ürümqi | /ʂan⁵¹/ | |
| Wuhan | /san⁴²/ | |
| Chengdu | /san⁵³/ | |
| Guiyang | /san⁴²/ | |
| Kunming | /ʂã̠⁵³/ | |
| Nanjing | /ʂaŋ²¹²/ | |
| Hefei | 
/ʂæ̃²⁴/  /ʂən²⁴/  | 
|
| Jin | Taiyuan | /sæ̃⁵³/ | 
| Pingyao | /ʂɑŋ⁵³/ | |
| Hohhot | /sæ̃⁵³/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /sø³⁵/ | 
| Suzhou | /sø⁵¹/ | |
| Hangzhou | /sz̩ʷõ⁵³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /ɕi³⁵/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /ɕie³⁵/ | 
| Tunxi | /sɔ³¹/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /ʂə̃⁴¹/ | 
| Xiangtan | /ɕyẽ⁴²/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /sɛn²¹³/ | 
| Hakka | Meixian | /sam³¹/ | 
| Taoyuan | ||
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /sim³⁵/ | 
| Nanning | /sim³⁵/ | |
| Hong Kong | /sim³⁵/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /siam⁵³/ | 
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /sieŋ³²/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /siŋ²¹/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /siam⁵³/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | 
/tiam²¹³/  /hiap̚³/ 俗  | 
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 陝 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| Initial (聲) | 書 (26) | 
| Final (韻) | 鹽 (153) | 
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) | 
| Openness (開合) | Open | 
| Division (等) | III | 
| Fanqie | 失冉切 | 
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang  | 
/ɕiᴇmX/ | 
| Pan Wuyun  | 
/ɕiɛmX/ | 
| Shao Rongfen  | 
/ɕjæmX/ | 
| Edwin Pulleyblank  | 
/ɕiamX/ | 
| Li Rong  | 
/ɕiɛmX/ | 
| Wang Li  | 
/ɕĭɛmX/ | 
| Bernard Karlgren  | 
/ɕi̯ɛmX/ | 
| Expected Mandarin Reflex  | 
shǎn | 
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 陝 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| No. | 11074 | 
| Phonetic component  | 
陝 | 
| Rime group  | 
談 | 
| Rime subdivision  | 
2 | 
| Corresponding MC rime  | 
陝 | 
| Old Chinese  | 
/*hljemʔ/ | 
Definitions
陝
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Japanese
Kanji
陝
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
陝 • (seom)
Eumhun:
- Sound (hangeul): 섬 (revised: seom, McCune-Reischauer: sŏm, Yale: sem)
 
- Name (hangeul): 고을이름()
 
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Vietnamese
Han character
陝 (thiểm)
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