Translingual

Han character

皴 (radical 107 皮+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 戈水木竹水 (IEDHE), four-corner 2444₇, composition ⿰夋皮)

1. chapped, cracked

References

• KangXi: page 791, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22866
• Dae Jaweon: page 1206, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2756, character 2
• Unihan data for U+76B4

Cantonese

Hanzi

皴 ‎(Yale seun1)

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: しゅん (shun)
• Kan’on: しゅん (shun)
• Kun: ひび (hibi), しわ (shiwa)

Compounds

Etymology

Probably from stem shiwa of verb shiwaru (撓る: “to sag, as something elastic that has lost its bounce”). Probably cognate with 皺 ‎(shibo).

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) しわ [shìwá] (Heiban - [0])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ɕiɰᵝa̠]

Alternative forms

• 皺

Noun

皴 ‎(hiragana しわ, romaji shiwa)

1. wrinkles in skin, paper, cloth, or some other surface
2. ripples on the surface of water
3. a pattern of cracks and wrinkles on the surface of an 烏帽子 ‎(eboshi, “traditional Japanese formal black hat”) formed as the black lacquer dries

References

1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

皴 • ‎(jun) (hangeul 준, revised jun, McCune-Reischauer chun, Yale cwun)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

皴 ‎(Pinyin cūn (cun1), Wade-Giles ts'un¹)

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