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損

損

See also: 损

Translingual

Han character

損 (radical 64 手+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 手口月金 (QRBC), four-corner 56086, composition ⿰扌員)

  1. diminish
  2. impair
  3. injure
  4. to damage
  5. 41st hexagram of the I Ching

References

  • KangXi: page 446, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12459
  • Dae Jaweon: page 796, character 27
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1931, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+640D

Chinese

trad. 損
simp. 损

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (員) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
員 *ɢon, *ɢun
圓 *ɢon
塤 *qʰon
損 *sqʰuːnʔ
縜 *ɢun
隕 *ɢunʔ
殞 *ɢunʔ
溳 *ɢunʔ, *ɢun
磒 *ɢunʔ
霣 *ɢunʔ
愪 *ɢunʔ, *ɢun
勛 *qʰun
鄖 *ɢun
篔 *ɢun
貟 *ɢun, *ɢuns
韻 *ɢʷɯns

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 損
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 魂 (55)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 蘇本切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /suənX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /suonX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /suənX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /swənX/
Li
Rong		 /suənX/
Wang
Li		 /suənX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /suənX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 sǔn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 損
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 sǔn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ swonX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[s-q]ʷˤə[n]ʔ/
English diminish, damage

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 損
Reading # 1/1
No. 16202
Phonetic
component		 員
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 損
Old
Chinese		 /*sqʰuːnʔ/

Definitions

損

  1. to damage
  2. to lose
    損失 / 损失  ―  sǔnshī  ―  to lose

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji

損

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. harm

Readings

Korean

Hanja

損 • ‎(son) (hangeul 손, revised son, McCune-Reischauer son, Yale son)

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Vietnamese

Han character

損 (tốn, tổn, tủn, vin, tỏn)

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