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Translingual

Han character

(radical 38 +12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 女口口十 (VRRJ), four-corner 46456, composition)

  1. beautiful, lovely, pretty, graceful

References

  • KangXi: page 271, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6738
  • Dae Jaweon: page 539, character 21
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1080, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+5B0B

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*taːlʔ
*taːlʔ, *taːls, *taːn, *daːn
*taːlʔ, *tʰjaːlʔ
*daːl, *daːn, *teːn
*daːl
*teːl
*deːl, *deːls, *daːn
*tjal, *tjals
*taːn, *djan, *djanʔ, *djans
*taːn
*taːn
*taːn
*taːn
*taːn
*tʰaːn
*daːn, *daːns
*daːn, *deːn
*daːn, *daːnʔ, *daːns, *djan, *taːnʔ
*daːnʔ
*daːnʔ, *daːns, *djan
*daːns
樿 *tjanʔ
*tjanʔ, *tʰjan, *tʰjanʔ
*tjans
*tʰjanʔ
*tʰjanʔ
*tʰjanʔ
*tʰjanʔ
*tʰjanʔ
*djan
*djan, *djans
*djan
*djanʔ
*djanʔ
*teːnʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (25)
Final () (77)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡ʑiᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun
/d͡ʑiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡ʑjæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/d͡ʑian/
Li
Rong
/ʑiɛn/
Wang
Li
/ʑĭɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʑi̯ɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chán
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 2032
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*djan/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 嬋娟婵娟
  • 嬋娟刃婵娟刃
  • 嬋媛婵媛
  • 嬋連婵连

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

  • On: せん (sen), ぜん (zen)
  • Kun: ひきつなが (hikitsunaga), みうち (miuchi)

Korean

Hanja

(seon) (hangeul , revised seon, McCune-Reischauer sŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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References