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鑽

鑽

See also: 钻

Translingual

Han character

鑽 (radical 167 金+19, 27 strokes, cangjie input 金竹山金 (CHUC), four-corner 84186)

References

  • KangXi: page 1327, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41082
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1828, character 31
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4276, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+947D

Chinese

trad. 鑽
simp. 钻
alt. forms 鑚

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (贊) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
贊 *ʔsaːns
趲 *ʔsaːns, *zaːnʔ
讚 *ʔsaːns
酇 *ʔsaːns, *zoːn
饡 *ʔsaːns
濽 *ʔsaːns
襸 *ʔsaːns
攢 *ʔsaːns, *ʔsoːnʔ
瓚 *zaːnʔ
禶 *zaːnʔ, *zoːn
穳 *zaːns, *zoːn
囋 *zaːns, *zaːd
鑽 *ʔsoːn, *ʔsoːns
劗 *ʔsoːn, *zoːn
纘 *ʔsoːnʔ
儧 *ʔsoːnʔ
鄼 *ʔsoːnʔ
欑 *ʔsoːnʔ, *zoːn
籫 *ʔsoːnʔ
巑 *zoːn
攅 *zoːns

Pronunciation

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 鑽
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zuān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tswan ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ts]ˤor/
English perforate, penetrate

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 鑽 鑽
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 16527 16535
Phonetic
component		 贊 贊
Rime
group		 元 元
Rime
subdivision		 3 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 鑚 䂎
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsoːn/ /*ʔsoːns/

Definitions

鑽

  1. to drill, to bore
  2. to pierce
  3. diamond, auger

References

Japanese

Kanji

鑽

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Korean

Hanja

鑽 • ‎(chan) (hangeul 찬)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鑽 (toản, xoảng, xoàn)

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