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淺

淺

See also: 浅

Translingual

Traditional 淺
Shinjitai 浅
Simplified 浅

Han character

淺 (radical 85 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水戈戈 (EII), four-corner 33153)

Antonyms

References

  • KangXi: page 632, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17697
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1039, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1646, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6DFA

Chinese

trad. 淺
simp. 浅

Glyph origin

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sʰlenʔ, *ʔsleːn) : semantic 氵 + phonetic 戔 ‎(OC *zlaːn).

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 淺
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 仙 (77)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 七演切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sʰiᴇnX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sʰiɛnX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sʰjænX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sʰianX/
Li
Rong		 /t͡sʰiɛnX/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sʰĭɛnX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡sʰi̯ɛnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 qiǎn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 淺
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 qiǎn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tshjenX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[tsʰ]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 淺
Reading # 1/2
No. 6000
Phonetic
component		 戔
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 淺
Old
Chinese		 /*sʰlenʔ/

Definitions

淺

  1. shallow; not deep
  2. superficial; surface; minimal; insignificant
  3. simple; easy-to-understand
  4. not intimate; distant
  5. (of colours) light; pale
  6. (of time) short; not long
  7. (of level) slight; light
Antonyms
  • (shallow): 深 (shēn)
See also
  • (color: light): 深 (shēn), 濃／浓 (nóng)

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 淺
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 先 (85)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 則前切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sen/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sen/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sɛn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sɛn/
Li
Rong		 /t͡sen/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sien/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡sien/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiān
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 淺
Reading # 2/2
No. 6017
Phonetic
component		 戔
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 箋
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsleːn/

Definitions

淺

  1. †Only used in 淺淺／浅浅 (“gurgle; babble of running water”).

Japanese

Kanji

淺

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

淺 • ‎(cheon) (hangeul 천, revised cheon, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏn, Yale chen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

淺 (thiển, sẻn, tiên)

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