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Translingual

Han character

(radical 181 +9, 18 strokes, cangjie input 山月一月金 (UBMBC), four-corner 21286)

  1. good, honest
  2. simple
  3. respectful
  4. surname (See Zhuanxu, there is a Village called Zhuānchǔsì in Cang County, Hebei Province. All of the residents are surnamed Zhuan. see http://www.zhuan.org)

References

  • KangXi: page 1407, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43600
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1925, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4382, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+9853

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*toːlʔ, *sʰrolʔ
*toːlʔ, *toːn
*tjols
*djol, *djon
*djol, *djon
*djols
*toːn
*toːn, *tjonʔ
*toːn, *tʰoːn
*toːn
*toːn
*toːns, *djonʔ
*tʰoːn, *tjon
*tʰoːn
*tʰoːn, *tʰoːns
*stʰons, *tjon, *tʰjons, *djon
*tjon
*tʰjonʔ
*djon
*djon
*djon
*djon, *djonʔ
*djonʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (23)
Final () (78)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕiuᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕʷiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕjuæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cwian/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕiuɛn/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕĭwɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕi̯wɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhuān
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 2513
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tjon/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. good
  2. honest
  3. simple
  4. respectful

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(jeon) (hangeul , revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)

  1. honest
  2. stupid

Vietnamese

Han character

(chuyên)

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