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纖
纖
See also: 纤
Translingual
| Traditional | 纖 |
|---|---|
| Shinjitai | 繊 |
| Simplified | 纤 |
Han character
纖 (radical 120 糸+17, 23 strokes, cangjie input 女火人戈一 (VFOIM), four-corner 23950)
References
- KangXi: page 943, character 29
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28072
- Dae Jaweon: page 1383, character 28
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3469, character 4
- Unihan data for U+7E96
See also
Chinese
| trad. | 纖 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 纤 | |
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (韱) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 讖 | *sʰrims |
| 攕 | *sreːm |
| 櫼 | *sreːm, *ʔsem |
| 懺 | *sʰraːms |
| 殲 | *ʔsem |
| 瀸 | *ʔsem |
| 鑯 | *ʔsem |
| 虃 | *ʔslem |
| 籤 | *sʰem |
| 韯 | *sem |
| 纖 | *sem |
| 孅 | *sem |
| 韱 | *sem |
| 襳 | *sem, *srem, *srim |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢ
- Wade-Giles: hsien1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shian
- IPA (key): /ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
- (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: siam / chhiam
- Tâi-lô: siam / tshiam
- Phofsit Daibuun: siafm, chiafm
- IPA (Xiamen): /ɕiam⁴⁴/, /t͡ɕʰiam⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiam³³/, /t͡ɕʰiam³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiam⁴⁴/, /t͡ɕʰiam⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /ɕiam⁴⁴/, /t͡ɕʰiam⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕiam⁴⁴/, /t͡ɕʰiam⁴⁴/
- Note: siam - literary; chhiam - vernacular.
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 纖 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) |
| Final (韻) | 鹽 (153) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 息廉切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/siᴇm/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/siɛm/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/sjæm/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/siam/ |
| Li Rong |
/siɛm/ |
| Wang Li |
/sĭɛm/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/si̯ɛm/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
xiān |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 纖 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 13484 |
| Phonetic component |
韱 |
| Rime group |
談 |
| Rime subdivision |
2 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
銛 |
| Old Chinese |
/*sem/ |
Definitions
纖
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Compounds
Derived terms from 纖
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Japanese
Kanji
纖
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 繊)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
纖 • (seom) (hangeul 섬, revised seom, McCune-Reischauer sŏm, Yale sem)
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Vietnamese
Han character
纖 (tiêm, tươm)
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