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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 124 +9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿月弓一 (TBNM), four-corner 80127)

  1. scissors
  2. cut, clip
  3. annihilate

References

  • KangXi: page 958, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28752
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1404, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3352, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+7FE6

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔslel, *ʔslenʔ
*ʔslen, *ʔslens
*ʔslen, *ʔslens, *ʔsleːn, *zleːn
*ʔslen, *ʔslenʔ, *ʔslens
*ʔslenʔ
*ʔslenʔ
*ʔslenʔ
*ʔslenʔ
*ʔslens
*ʔslens
*zleːn
*zleːn
*zleːn

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (13)
Final () (77)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡siᴇnX/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡siɛnX/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sjænX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sianX/
Li
Rong
/t͡siɛnX/
Wang
Li
/t͡sĭɛnX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡si̯ɛnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiǎn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jiǎn
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsjenX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ts][e][n]ʔ/
English cut (v.)

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 10245
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔslenʔ/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 不翦
  • 明如翦
  • 玉翦
  • 王翦
  • 翦徑翦径
  • 翦截鋪翦截铺
  • 翦拂
  • 翦枝竭流
  • 翦滅翦灭
  • 翦綵
  • 翦綹翦绺
  • 翦翦
  • 翦草除根
  • 翦落
  • 翦除
  • 西窗翦燭西窗翦烛
  • 闕翦阙翦
  • 雙瞳翦水双瞳翦水

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(jeon) (hangeul , revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)

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