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肩
肩
Translingual
| Shinjitai | 肩 |
|---|---|
| Simplified | 肩 |
| Traditional | 肩 |
Han character
肩 (radical 130 肉+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹尸月 (HSB) or 戈尸月 (ISB), four-corner 30227, composition ⿸戶月 or ⿸户月 or ⿸戸月)
References
- KangXi: page 975, character 10
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29299
- Dae Jaweon: page 1426, character 21
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2052, character 8
- Unihan data for U+80A9
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
肩 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 肩
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|---|---|---|
| Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (肩) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 顅 | *kʰreːn |
| 掮 | *ɡren* |
| 肩 | *keːn |
| 猏 | *keːn |
| 菺 | *keːn |
| 鵳 | *keːn |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄢ
- Wade-Giles: chien1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jian
- IPA (key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: gin1
- Yale: gīn
- Cantonese Pinyin: gin1
- IPA (key): /kiːn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: keng
- Tâi-lô: king
- Phofsit Daibuun: kefng
- IPA (Xiamen): /kiɪŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /kiɪŋ³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /kiɪŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /kiɪŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /kiɪŋ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 肩 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 先 (85) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | IV |
| Fanqie | 古賢切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ken/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ken/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/kɛn/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/kɛn/ |
| Li Rong |
/ken/ |
| Wang Li |
/kien/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/kien/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
jiān |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 肩 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
jiān |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ ken › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[k]ˤe[n]/ |
| English | shoulder (n.) |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 肩 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 6023 |
| Phonetic component |
肩 |
| Rime group |
元 |
| Rime subdivision |
2 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
堅 |
| Old Chinese |
/*keːn/ |
Definitions
肩
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Compounds
Derived terms from 肩
Korean
Hanja
肩 • (gyeon) (hangeul 견, revised gyeon, McCune-Reischauer kyŏn, Yale kyen)
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