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專

專

See also: 専 and 尃

Translingual

Traditional 專
Shinjitai 専
Simplified 专

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (專) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
竱 *toːn, *tjonʔ
團 *doːn
摶 *doːn, *doːn, *donʔ
篿 *doːn, *tjon
慱 *doːn
剸 *doːn, *tjonʔ, *tjons
鄟 *doːn, *tjon, *djonʔ
漙 *doːn
鷒 *doːn, *tjon
轉 *tonʔ, *tons
傳 *tons, *don, *dons
囀 *tons
縳 *donʔ, *dons
專 *tjon
磚 *tjon
甎 *tjon
塼 *tjon
嫥 *tjon
膞 *tjon, *tjonʔ, *djonʔ
鱄 *tjon, *tjonʔ
蓴 *djun

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tjon) : phonetic 叀 + semantic 寸.

Han character

專 (radical 41 寸+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 十戈木戈 (JIDI), four-corner 50343)

  1. monopolize, take sole possession

Descendants

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 295, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7439
  • Dae Jaweon: page 584, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 507, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5C08

Chinese

trad. 專
simp. 专

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 專
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 仙 (78)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 職緣切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕiuᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕʷiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕjuæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cwian/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕiuɛn/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕĭwɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi̯wɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhuān
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 專
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhuān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsywen ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ton/
English exclusively

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 專
Reading # 1/1
No. 17683
Phonetic
component		 專
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 專
Old
Chinese		 /*tjon/

Definitions

專

  1. expert

References

Japanese

Kanji

專

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 専)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

專 • ‎(jeon) (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

專 (chuyên, choèn, chuyến)

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