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僉
僉
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Translingual
| Traditional | 僉 |
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| Shinjitai (extended) |
㑒 |
| Simplified | 佥 |
Han character
僉 (radical 9 人+11, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人一口人 (OMRO), four-corner 80886, composition ⿳亼吅从)
Derived characters
- 䩎
- 檢
- 險
- 劍
- 儉
References
- KangXi: page 115, character 27
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1054
- Dae Jaweon: page 246, character 14
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 207, character 3
- Unihan data for U+50C9
Chinese
| trad. | 僉 | |
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| simp. | 佥 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢ
- Wade-Giles: ch'ien1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chian
- IPA (key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: cim1
- Yale: chīm
- Cantonese Pinyin: tsim1
- IPA (key): /t͡sʰiːm⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiam
- Tâi-lô: tshiam
- Phofsit Daibuun: chiafm
- IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕʰiam⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕʰiam³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰiam⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕʰiam⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕʰiam⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
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| Character | 僉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 清 (14) |
| Final (韻) | 鹽 (153) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 七廉切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/t͡sʰiᴇm/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/t͡sʰiɛm/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/t͡sʰjæm/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/t͡sʰiam/ |
| Li Rong |
/t͡sʰiɛm/ |
| Wang Li |
/t͡sʰĭɛm/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/t͡sʰi̯ɛm/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
qiān |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
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| Character | 僉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
qiān |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ tshjem › |
| Old Chinese |
/*s.qʰ[a]m/ (dialect: *s.qʰ > MC tsh-) |
| English | all; many |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 僉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 10202 |
| Phonetic component |
僉 |
| Rime group |
談 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
籤 |
| Old Chinese |
/*skʰlam/ |
Definitions
僉
Japanese
Kanji
僉
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
僉 • (cheom) (hangeul 첨, revised cheom, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏm, Yale chem)
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Vietnamese
Han character
- Hán Việt: thiêm
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References
Etymology
| Historical forms of the character 僉
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References:
Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (僉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 厱 | *raːm, *kʰreːm, *kʰlam |
| 歛 | *qʰlaːm |
| 臉 | *ɡr·reːmʔ, *skʰlam, *kramʔ |
| 醶 | *ɡr·reːmʔ, *skʰraːmʔ |
| 鹼 | *kreːmʔ, *skʰlam |
| 薟 | *ɡ·ram, *ɡ·ramʔ, *qʰram |
| 匳 | *ɡ·ram |
| 獫 | *ɡ·ram, *ɡ·ramʔ, *ɡ·rams, *qʰramʔ |
| 蘞 | *ɡ·ram, *ɡ·ramʔ, *qʰlam |
| 籢 | *ɡ·ram |
| 斂 | *ɡ·ramʔ, *ɡ·rams |
| 瀲 | *ɡ·ramʔ, *ɡ·rams |
| 撿 | *ɡ·ramʔ, *kramʔ |
| 羷 | *ɡ·ramʔ |
| 殮 | *ɡ·rams |
| 簽 | *skʰlam |
| 僉 | *skʰlam |
| 憸 | *skʰlam, *skʰlamʔ, *sqʰlam, *qʰramʔ |
| 譣 | *skʰlam, *qʰramʔ |
| 檢 | *kramʔ |
| 瞼 | *kramʔ |
| 儉 | *ɡramʔ |
| 顩 | *ŋramʔ, *rlɯmʔ, *kʰrɯmʔ |
| 嬐 | *ŋramʔ |
| 嶮 | *ŋramʔ, *hŋramʔ |
| 噞 | *ŋramʔ, *ŋrams |
| 驗 | *ŋrams |
| 險 | *qʰramʔ |
| 劒 | *kams |
| 劍 | *kams |
| 𩏩 | *qʰam |