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筍
筍
See also: 笋
Translingual
Han character
筍 (radical 118 竹+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹心日 (HPA) or X竹心日 (XHPA), four-corner 88627, composition ⿱⺮旬)
References
- KangXi: page 883, character 2
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25997
- Dae Jaweon: page 1312, character 3
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2969, character 2
- Unihan data for U+7B4D
Chinese
| trad. | 筍 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 笋 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 筍
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|---|---|---|
| Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (匀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 枃 | *skins |
| 笉 | *skʰinʔ |
| 郇 | *ɡʷreːn, *sqʰʷin |
| 絢 | *qʰʷiːns |
| 眴 | *qʰʷiːns, *ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷin, *qʰʷjins, *ŋʷjin |
| 盷 | *ɡʷiːn |
| 訇 | *ɡʷiːn, *qʰʷreːŋ |
| 迿 | *ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷins |
| 姰 | *ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷin |
| 畇 | *l'iːŋ, *sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin, *ɢʷin |
| 荀 | *sqʰʷin |
| 詢 | *sqʰʷin |
| 洵 | *sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin |
| 恂 | *sqʰʷin |
| 峋 | *sqʰʷin |
| 珣 | *sqʰʷin |
| 槆 | *sqʰʷin |
| 筍 | *sqʰʷinʔ |
| 箰 | *sqʰʷinʔ |
| 旬 | *sɢʷin |
| 殉 | *sɢʷins |
| 徇 | *sɢʷins |
| 侚 | *sɢʷins |
| 均 | *kʷin |
| 鈞 | *kʷin |
| 袀 | *kʷin |
| 汮 | *kʷin, *kʷrin |
| 呁 | *kʷins |
| 筠 | *ɡʷin |
| 荺 | *ɢʷin, *ɡʷinʔ |
| 匀 | *ɢʷin |
| 韵 | *ɢʷins |
| 輷 | *qʰʷreːŋ, *qʰʷreːŋs |
| 揈 | *qʰʷreːŋ |
| 鍧 | *qʰʷreːŋ |
| 渹 | *qʰʷreːŋ |
| 赹 | *ɡʷeŋ |
| 憌 | *ɡʷeŋ |
| 惸 | *ɡʷeŋ |
| 咰 | *sqʰʷrid |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄣˇ
- Wade-Giles: sun3
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: soen
- IPA (key): /su̯ən²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: seon2
- Yale: séun
- Cantonese Pinyin: soen2
- IPA (key): /sɵn³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 筍 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /suən²¹⁴/ |
| Harbin | /suən²¹³/ | |
| Tianjin | /suən¹³/ | |
| Jinan | /ɕyẽ⁵⁵/ | |
| Qingdao | /syə̃⁵⁵/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /syn⁵³/ | |
| Xi'an | /suẽ⁵³/ | |
| Xining | /suə̃⁵³/ | |
| Yinchuan | /suŋ⁵³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /sũn⁴⁴²/ | |
| Ürümqi | /suŋ⁵¹/ | |
| Wuhan | /sən⁴²/ | |
| Chengdu | /sən⁵³/ | |
| Guiyang | /sen⁴²/ | |
| Kunming | /suə̃⁵³/ | |
| Nanjing | /sun²¹²/ | |
| Hefei | /sən⁵⁵/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /suəŋ⁵³/ |
| Pingyao | /suŋ⁵³/ | |
| Hohhot | /sũŋ⁵³/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /səŋ³⁵/ |
| Suzhou | /sən⁵¹/ | |
| Hangzhou | /sz̩ʷen⁵³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /ɕoŋ³⁵/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /sʌ̃³⁵/ |
| Tunxi | /sin³¹/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /sən⁴¹/ |
| Xiangtan | /dən⁴²/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /sun²¹³/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /sun³¹/ |
| Taoyuan | /sun³¹/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /søn³⁵/ |
| Nanning |
/ɬɐn³⁵/ /ɬyn³⁵/ |
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| Hong Kong | /søn³⁵/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /sun⁵³/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /suŋ³²/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /sœyŋ²¹/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /suŋ⁵³/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /tun²¹³/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 筍 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) |
| Final (韻) | 諄 (47) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 思尹切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/siuɪnX/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/sʷinX/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/sjuenX/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/swinX/ |
| Li Rong |
/siuĕnX/ |
| Wang Li |
/sĭuĕnX/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/si̯uĕnX/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
xǔn |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 筍 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
sǔn |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ swinX › |
| Old Chinese |
/*s-qʷi[n]ʔ/ |
| English | bamboo sprouts |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 筍 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 16392 |
| Phonetic component |
匀 |
| Rime group |
眞 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
筍 |
| Old Chinese |
/*sqʰʷinʔ/ |
Definitions
筍
- bamboo shoot
- (Cantonese, slang) very good; get something without paying its actual value.
Compounds
- 蘆筍／芦笋 (lúsǔn, “asparagus”)
- 竹筍／竹笋 (zhúsǔn, “bamboo shoot”)
- 石筍／石笋 (shísǔn, “stalagmite”)
- 萵筍／莴笋 (wōsǔn, “asparagus lettuce”)
Japanese
Kanji
筍
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
筍 • (sun) (hangeul 순, revised sun, McCune-Reischauer sun, Yale swun)
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Vietnamese
Han character
筍 (duẩn)
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