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氈

氈

See also: 毡 and 氊

Translingual

Han character

氈 (radical 82 毛+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 卜一竹手山 (YMHQU), four-corner 02114, composition ⿰亶毛)

  1. felt
  2. rug, carpet
  3. coarse fabrics used for rugs, carpets, wrappers, etc.

Related characters

References

  • KangXi: page 596, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16982
  • Dae Jaweon: page 988, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2007, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+6C08

Chinese

trad. 氈
simp. 毡
alt. forms 氊

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 氈
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (旦) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
皽 *tjaʀ, *tanʔ, *tjanʔ
担 *taːnʔ
胆 *daːn, *daːn
疸 *taːnʔ, *taːns
觛 *taːnʔ, *taːns, *daːnʔ
亶 *taːnʔ
嬗 *taːnʔ, *tʰaːn, *djans
笪 *taːnʔ, *taːns, *taːd
狚 *taːnʔ, *taːns, *taːd
旦 *taːns
鴠 *taːns
譠 *tʰaːn, *rteːn
坦 *tʰaːnʔ
但 *daːn, *daːnʔ, *daːns
檀 *daːn
壇 *daːn
儃 *daːn, *djan
驙 *daːn, *tan
袒 *daːnʔ, *rdeːns
襢 *daːnʔ, *tanʔ, *tans
繵 *daːnʔ
膻 *daːnʔ
澶 *daːns, *djan
邅 *tan, *danʔ, *dans
鱣 *tan
饘 *tjan, *tjanʔ
旜 *tjan
氈 *tjan
鸇 *tjan
顫 *tjans
蟺 *djanʔ
擅 *djans
羶 *hljan
呾 *taːd, *ʔraːd
怛 *taːd
妲 *taːd
靼 *taːd, *tjad
炟 *taːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tjan) : phonetic 亶 ‎(OC *taːnʔ) + semantic 毛 ‎(“hair, fur”).

In some fonts, the lower left is 且 (instead of 旦).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 氈
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 仙 (77)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 諸延切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕiᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕjæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cian/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕiɛn/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕĭɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi̯ɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhān
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 氈
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyen ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ta[n]/
English felt (n.)

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 氈
Reading # 1/1
No. 2086
Phonetic
component		 旦
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 𩜾
Old
Chinese		 /*tjan/

Definitions

氈

  1. felt
  2. felt underlay (used in Chinese calligraphy)

Japanese

Kanji

氈

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

氈 • ‎(jeon)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 전 (revised: jeon, McCune-Reischauer: chŏn, Yale: cen)
  • Name (hangeul): 모전(솜털로 만든 모직물)()
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Vietnamese

Han character

氈 (chen, chiên)

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