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戰

戰

See also: 戦 and 战

Translingual

Traditional 戰
Shinjitai 戦
Simplified 战

Han character

戰 (radical 62 戈+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 口十戈 (RJI), four-corner 63550, composition ⿰單戈)

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 414, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11667
  • Dae Jaweon: page 757, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1412, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+6230

Chinese

trad. 戰
simp. 战

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 戰
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (單) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
嚲 *taːlʔ
癉 *taːlʔ, *taːls, *taːn, *daːn
奲 *taːlʔ, *tʰjaːlʔ
驒 *daːl, *daːn, *teːn
鼉 *daːl
磾 *teːl
鷤 *deːl, *deːls, *daːn
觶 *tjal, *tjals
單 *taːn, *djan, *djanʔ, *djans
鄲 *taːn
殫 *taːn
簞 *taːn
匰 *taːn
襌 *taːn
啴 *tʰaːn
彈 *daːn, *daːns
貚 *daːn, *deːn
撣 *daːn, *daːnʔ, *daːns, *djan, *taːnʔ
潬 *daːnʔ
僤 *daːnʔ, *daːns, *djan
憚 *daːns
樿 *tjanʔ
燀 *tjanʔ, *tʰjan, *tʰjanʔ
戰 *tjans
闡 *tʰjanʔ
繟 *tʰjanʔ
幝 *tʰjanʔ
嘽 *tʰjanʔ
灛 *tʰjanʔ
蟬 *djan
禪 *djan, *djans
嬋 *djan
墠 *djanʔ
鱓 *djanʔ
蕇 *teːnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tjans) : phonetic 單 ‎(OC *taːn, *djan, *djanʔ, *djans) + semantic 戈 ‎(“halberd”) – battling with a halberd.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 戰
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 仙 (77)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 之膳切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕiᴇnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕiɛnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕjænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cianH/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕiɛnH/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕĭɛnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi̯ɛnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 戰 戰
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhàn zhàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyenH › ‹ tsyenH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tar-s/ /*tar-s/
English to fear battle

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 戰
Reading # 1/1
No. 2019
Phonetic
component		 單
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 戰
Old
Chinese		 /*tjans/

Definitions

戰

  1. to fight
  2. war; battle; fight
  3. to tremble; to shiver

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

戰

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

  1. fighting, battle

Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

戰 (chiến, xuyến, chuyến)

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