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Translingual

Han character

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

  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.
simp.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tjaʀ, *tanʔ, *tjanʔ
*taːnʔ
*daːn, *daːn
*taːnʔ, *taːns
*taːnʔ, *taːns, *daːnʔ
*taːnʔ
*taːnʔ, *tʰaːn, *djans
*taːnʔ, *taːns, *taːd
*taːnʔ, *taːns, *taːd
*taːns
*taːns
*tʰaːn, *rteːn
*tʰaːnʔ
*daːn, *daːnʔ, *daːns
*daːn
*daːn
*daːn, *djan
*daːn, *tan
*daːnʔ, *rdeːns
*daːnʔ, *tanʔ, *tans
*daːnʔ
*daːnʔ
*daːns, *djan
*tan, *danʔ, *dans
*tan
*tjan, *tjanʔ
*tjan
*tjan
*tjan
*tjans
*djanʔ
*djans
*hljan
*taːd, *ʔraːd
*taːd
*taːd
*taːd, *tjad
*taːd

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

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

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (23)
Final () (77)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
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
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
Reading # 1/1
No. 2086
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
𩜾
Old
Chinese
/*tjan/

Definitions

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

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(jeon)
Eumhun:

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

Han character

(chen, chiên)

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