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Translingual

Han character

(radical 130 +12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 月廿土口 (BTGR) or 月廿廿口 (BTTR), four-corner 78265)

References

  • KangXi: page 995, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29891
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1446, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2113, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+81B3

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tjenʔ
*tjenʔ
*ɡjenʔ
*ɡjenʔ
*djanʔ
*djanʔ
*djenʔ, *djens
*djenʔ, *djens
*djenʔ
*djenʔ
*ɡjens
*djens
*djens

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *djens) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *ɡjenʔ).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (25)
Final () (77)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡ʑiᴇnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/d͡ʑiɛnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡ʑjænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/d͡ʑianH/
Li
Rong
/ʑiɛnH/
Wang
Li
/ʑĭɛnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʑi̯ɛnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shàn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 11094
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*djens/

Definitions

  1. to prepare food
  2. to offer food
  3. meal

Compounds

  • 佐膳
  • 供膳甘肥
  • 問安視膳问安视膳
  • 嘗膳尝膳
  • 廩膳廪膳
  • 廩膳生員廪膳生员
  • 廩膳秀才廪膳秀才
  • 御膳房 (yùshànfáng)
  • 早膳
  • 晚膳
  • 減膳减膳
  • 用膳
  • 膳堂
  • 膳夫
  • 膳宿 (shànsù)
  • 膳房
  • 膳費膳费
  • 膳食 (shànshí)
  • 藥膳药膳 (yàoshàn)
  • 進膳进膳
  • 配膳檯配膳台
  • 食膳
  • 養膳养膳

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(thiện)

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