Translingual

Han character

腺 (radical 130 肉+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月竹日水 (BHAE), four-corner 7623₂, composition ⿰⺼泉)

Usage notes

This is a Japanese-coined character used outside Japanese.

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 990, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29746
• Dae Jaweon: page 1442, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2097, character 5
• Unihan data for U+817A

Chinese

Pronunciation

Definitions

腺

1. (anatomy) gland

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. gland

Readings

• Kan’yōon: せん (sen)

Compounds

Etymology

Coined in Japan (kokuji) in late 1700s - early 1800s by rangaku scholar Udagawa Genshin as a translation for Dutch klier ‎(“gland”), as a compound of Sinitic elements 肉 + 泉.

Pronunciation

• Kan'yōyomi
• (Tokyo) せ​ん [séꜜǹ] (Atamadaka - [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [sẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

腺 ‎(hiragana せん, romaji sen)

1. gland

References

1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

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

1. gland

Vietnamese

Han character

腺 (tuyến)

1. gland