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Translingual

Han character

(radical 184 +7, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜水人戈女 (YEOIV), four-corner 27732, composition𣦼)

References

  • KangXi: page 1419, character 39
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44160
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1944, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4455, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+9910

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*sʰaːn
*sʰaːn
*sʰaːns
*sʰaːns
*sʰaːns
*sʰaːns
*sʰoːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sʰaːn) : phonetic 𣦼 + semantic  (to eat; meal; food).

The upper phonetic portion is an obsolete character, formed from and . is sometimes used as an informal simplification for itself.

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /t͡sʰan⁵⁵/
Harbin /t͡sʰan⁴⁴/
Tianjin /t͡sʰan²¹/
Jinan /t͡sʰã²¹³/
Qingdao /t͡sʰã²¹³/
Zhengzhou /t͡sʰan²⁴/
Xi'an /t͡sʰã²¹/
Xining /t͡sʰã⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /t͡sʰan⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /t͡sʰɛ̃n³¹/
Ürümqi /t͡sʰan⁴⁴/
Wuhan /t͡sʰan⁵⁵/
Chengdu /t͡sʰan⁵⁵/
Guiyang /t͡sʰan⁵⁵/
Kunming /t͡sʰã̠⁴⁴/
Nanjing /t͡sʰaŋ³¹/
Hefei /t͡sʰæ̃²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰæ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /t͡sʰɑŋ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sʰæ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /t͡sʰø⁵³/
Suzhou /t͡sʰø⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡sʰẽ̞³³/
Wenzhou /t͡sʰa³³/
Hui Shexian /t͡sʰɛ³¹/
Tunxi /t͡sʰɔ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /t͡sʰan³³/
Xiangtan /t͡sʰan³³/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰan⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰon⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /t͡sʰon²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰan⁵³/
Nanning /t͡sʰan⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰan⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡sʰan⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sʰuaŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sʰuiŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sʰaŋ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /saŋ²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (14)
Final () (61)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sʰɑn/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sʰɑn/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sʰɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sʰan/
Li
Rong
/t͡sʰɑn/
Wang
Li
/t͡sʰɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡sʰɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
cān
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 1117
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sʰaːn/
Notes

Definitions

  1. meal
       zǎocān   breakfast (lit. early meal)
  2. food
  3. Classifier for meals.
    / [Cantonese]   jat1caan1 faan6 [Jyutping]   one meal
    每日 [Cantonese]   mui5 jat6 sik6 saam1caan1 [Jyutping]   eat three meals a day

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
さん
Hyōgaiji
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana さん, romaji san)

  1. eating and drinking

Korean

Hanja

(chan, son) (hangeul , , revised chan, son, McCune-Reischauer ch'an, son, Yale chan, son)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(xun, san, xan)

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