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Translingual

Han character

(radical 195 +13, 24 strokes, cangjie input 弓火卜田一 (NFYWM), four-corner 20316)

  1. sturgeon

References

  • KangXi: page 1479, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46533
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2010, character 31
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4718, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+9C63

Chinese

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script 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

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (9)
Final () (79)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʈˠiᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈᵚiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȶiæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈian/
Li
Rong
/ȶjɛn/
Wang
Li
/ȶĭɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȶi̯ɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhān
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhān
Middle
Chinese
‹ trjen ›
Old
Chinese
/*tra[n]/
English a kind of fish

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. 2078
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tan/

Definitions

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Compounds
  • 鱣堂
  • 鱣舍

References

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of – see .
(This character, , is a variant form of .)

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. carp
  2. sturgeon

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(jeon) (hangeul , revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)

  1. carp
  2. sturgeon