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俴

俴	U+4FF4, 俴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4FF4

← 俳
[U+4FF3]

CJK Unified Ideographs

俵 →
[U+4FF5]

Translingual

Han character

俴 (radical 9 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人戈戈 (OII), four-corner 2325₃, composition ⿰亻戔)

References

KangXi: page 106, character 11

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 727

Dae Jaweon: page 226, character 6

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 174, character 1

Unihan data for U+4FF4

Chinese

simp. and trad.		俴

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 俴

**Large seal script**
L16196

**Small seal script**
s05837

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
Liushutong (large seal) and
Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

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

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): jiàn (jian⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cin⁵, zin¹
Min Nan (POJ): chián

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: jiàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄢˋ
  - Wade-Giles: chien⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiann
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: cin⁵, zin¹
  - Yale: chíhn, jīn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsin⁵, dzin¹
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːn¹³/, /t͡siːn⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chián
  - Tâi-lô: tsián
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ciern
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕiɛn⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕiɛn⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕiɛn⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕiɛn⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕiɛn⁴¹/

Middle Chinese: /d͡ziᴇn^X/, /t͡siᴇn^X/▼

Rime
Character	俴	俴
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	從 (15)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	慈演切	即淺切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ziᴇn^X/	/t͡siᴇn^X/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ziɛn^X/	/t͡siɛn^X/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡zjæn^X/	/t͡sjæn^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡zian^X/	/t͡sian^X/
Li Rong	/d͡ziɛn^X/	/t͡siɛn^X/
Wang Li	/d͡zĭɛn^X/	/t͡sĭɛn^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/d͡zʱi̯ɛn^X/	/t͡si̯ɛn^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiàn	jiǎn

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*[dz]e[n]ʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*ʔslenʔ/, /*zlenʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	俴
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiàn
Middle Chinese	‹ dzjen^X ›
Old Chinese	/*[dz]e[n]ʔ/
English	shallow
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	俴	俴
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	5997	6007
Phonetic component	戔	戔
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	翦	踐
Old Chinese	/*ʔslenʔ/	/*zlenʔ/

Definitions

俴

thin

Japanese

Kanji

俴

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On: せん (sen), ぜん (zen)

Kun: あさい (asai), はだか (hadaka)

Korean

Hanja

俴 • ‎(cheon) (hangeul 천, revised cheon, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏn)

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