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賤
賤
Translingual
| Traditional | 賤 |
|---|---|
| Shinjitai | 賎 |
| Simplified | 贱 |
Han character
賤 (radical 154 貝+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 月金戈戈 (BCII), four-corner 63853, composition ⿰貝戔)
References
- KangXi: page 1209, character 35
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36826
- Dae Jaweon: page 1675, character 3
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3647, character 5
- Unihan data for U+8CE4
Chinese
| trad. | 賤 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 贱 | |
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (戔) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 殘 | *zlaːn, *zaːns |
| 戔 | *zlaːn |
| 帴 | *zlaːn, *saːns, *ʔslenʔ, *ʔsleːn, *sreːd |
| 虥 | *zreːn, *zreːn, *zreːnʔ, *zraːns |
| 盞 | *ʔsreːnʔ |
| 醆 | *ʔsreːnʔ, *ʔljenʔ |
| 琖 | *ʔsreːnʔ |
| 剗 | *sʰreːnʔ |
| 棧 | *zreːnʔ, *zraːns, *zrenʔ |
| 輚 | *zreːnʔ, *zraːns |
| 嶘 | *zreːnʔ |
| 錢 | *ʔslenʔ, *zlen |
| 俴 | *ʔslenʔ, *zlenʔ |
| 籛 | *ʔslenʔ, *ʔslens, *ʔsleːn |
| 淺 | *sʰlenʔ, *ʔsleːn |
| 濺 | *ʔsens, *ʔseːn |
| 踐 | *zlenʔ |
| 諓 | *zlenʔ, *zlens |
| 餞 | *zlenʔ, *zlens |
| 賤 | *zlens |
| 綫 | *slens |
| 箋 | *ʔsleːn |
| 牋 | *ʔsleːn |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *zlens) : semantic 貝 + phonetic 戔 (OC *zlaːn).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): zin6
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhien
- Min Dong (BUC): ciêng
- Min Nan (POJ): chiān / chōaⁿ
- Wu (Wiktionary): jji (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄢˋ
- Wade-Giles: chien4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiann
- IPA (key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: zin6
- Yale: jihn
- Cantonese Pinyin: dzin6
- IPA (key): /t͡siːn²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhien
- Hakka Romanization System: qien
- Hagfa Pinyim: qian4
- IPA: /t͡ɕʰi̯en⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: ciêng
- IPA (key): /t͡siɛŋ²⁴²/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiān / chōaⁿ
- Tâi-lô: tsiān / tsuānn
- Phofsit Daibuun: cien, zvoa
- IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕiɛn²²/, /t͡suã²²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕiɛn⁴¹/, /t͡suã⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕiɛn²²/, /t͡suã²²/
- IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕiɛn³³/, /t͡suã³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕiɛn³³/, /t͡suã³³/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: jji (T3)
- IPA (key): /d̥͡ʑi²³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 賤 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 從 (15) |
| Final (韻) | 仙 (77) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 才線切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/d͡ziᴇnH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/d͡ziɛnH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/d͡zjænH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/d͡zianH/ |
| Li Rong |
/d͡ziɛnH/ |
| Wang Li |
/d͡zĭɛnH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/d͡zʱi̯ɛnH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
jiàn |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 賤 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 6008 |
| Phonetic component |
戔 |
| Rime group |
元 |
| Rime subdivision |
2 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
賤 |
| Old Chinese |
/*zlens/ |
Definitions
賤
- cheap; inexpensive
- lowly; low-ranking; poor; plebeian
- bad; inferior; poor
- mean; base; despicable; obnoxious
- (humble) my
- (Min) naughty; restless
- to look down upon; to despise
- to hate; to detest
- A surname.
Synonyms
| Dialectal synonyms of 便宜 (“cheap”) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Variety | Location | Words |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 便宜、低廉 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 便宜、賤 |
| Taiwan | 便宜 | |
| Jinan | 便宜、賤 | |
| Xi'an | 便宜、賤 | |
| Wuhan | 便宜、相因 | |
| Chengdu | 相因、便宜 | |
| Yangzhou | 便宜、划廉 | |
| Hefei | 巧、便宜 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 平 |
| Hong Kong | 平 | |
| Taishan | 平 | |
| Yangjiang | 平、平宜 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 便宜 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 便宜、平 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 便宜 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 便宜 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 便宜 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 便宜 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 便宜 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 便宜 | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 便宜、賤 |
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 便宜 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 便宜 |
| Min Nan | Quanzhou | 俗、便宜 |
| Xiamen | 俗、便宜 | |
| Zhangzhou | 俗、便宜 | |
| Taipei | 俗、便宜 | |
| Kaohsiung | 俗、便宜 | |
| Malaysia | 便宜 | |
| Chaozhou | 便 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 𠼢、便宜 |
| Suzhou | 便宜、𠼢 | |
| Wenzhou | 倯、便宜 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 便宜 |
| Shuangfeng | 便宜、賤 | |
Compounds
Derived terms from 賤
Japanese
Kanji
賤
Readings
- Goon: ぜん (zen)
- Kan’on: せん (sen)
- Kun: いやしい (賤しい, iyashii), いやしむ (賤しむ, iyashimu), いやしめる (賤しめる, iyashimeru), しず (賤, shizu), ひくい (賤い, hikui), やすい (賤い, yasui)
Alternative forms
Korean
Hanja
賤 • (cheon) (hangeul 천, revised cheon, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏn, Yale chen)
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Vietnamese
Han character
賤 (tiện)
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