䃸

䃸 U+40F8, 䃸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-40F8 ← 䃷 [U+40F7] CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A 䃹 → [U+40F9]

Translingual

Han character

䃸 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+17, 22 strokes, cangjie input 一口人戈一 (MROIM), composition ⿰石韱)

1. electric light, a flash of lightning
2. wedge
3. preface, foreword

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 838, character 39
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2465, character 12
• Unihan data for U+40F8

Chinese

simp. and trad.		䃸
alternative forms		䃱

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiàn, jīn (xian⁴, jin¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢˋ, ㄐㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cim³ / cim¹ / zaam¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siàn
    • Wade–Giles: hsien⁴
    • Yale: syàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiann
    • Palladius: сянь (sjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jin
    • Wade–Giles: chin¹
    • Yale: jīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jin
    • Palladius: цзинь (czinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕin⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: cim³ / cim¹ / zaam¹
    • Yale: chim / chīm / jāam
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsim³ / tsim¹ / dzaam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: qim³ / qim¹ / zam¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːm³³/, /t͡sʰiːm⁵⁵/, /t͡saːm⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: semH

Rime
Character	䃸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	添 (157)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	先念切
Baxter	semH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/semH/
Pan Wuyun	/semH/
Shao Rongfen	/sɛmH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɛmH/
Li Rong	/semH/
Wang Li	/siemH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/siemH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sim3

Definitions

䃸

1. (obsolete) wedge
2. used in 䃸磹