嬋

See also: 婵

嬋 U+5B0B, 嬋 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B0B ← 嬊 [U+5B0A] CJK Unified Ideographs 嬌 → [U+5B0C]

Translingual

Han character

嬋 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 女口口十 (VRRJ), four-corner 4645₆, composition ⿰女單)

1. beautiful, lovely, pretty, graceful

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 271, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6738
• Dae Jaweon: page 539, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1080, character 15
• Unihan data for U+5B0B

Chinese

trad.		嬋
simp.		婵

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 嬋
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (單) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
嚲	*taːlʔ
癉	*taːlʔ, *taːls, *taːn, *daːn
奲	*taːlʔ, *tʰjaːlʔ
驒	*daːl, *daːn, *teːn
鼉	*daːl
磾	*teːl
鷤	*deːl, *deːls, *daːn
觶	*tjal, *tjals
單	*taːn, *djan, *djanʔ, *djans
鄲	*taːn
殫	*taːn
簞	*taːn
匰	*taːn
襌	*taːn
彈	*daːn, *daːns
貚	*daːn, *deːn
撣	*daːn, *daːnʔ, *daːns, *djan, *taːnʔ
潬	*daːnʔ
僤	*daːnʔ, *daːns, *djan
憚	*daːns
樿	*tjanʔ
燀	*tjanʔ, *tʰjan, *tʰjanʔ
戰	*tjans
闡	*tʰjanʔ
繟	*tʰjanʔ
幝	*tʰjanʔ
嘽	*tʰaːn, *tʰjanʔ
灛	*tʰjanʔ
蟬	*djan
禪	*djan, *djans
嬋	*djan
墠	*djanʔ
鱓	*djanʔ
蕇	*teːnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *djan): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 單 (OC *taːn, *djan, *djanʔ, *djans).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chán (chan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sim⁴ / sin⁴
• Eastern Min (BUC): sièng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): siân

  (Teochew, Peng'im): siam⁵ / siang⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chán
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chán
    • Wade–Giles: chʻan²
    • Yale: chán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: charn
    • Palladius: чань (čanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰän³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sim⁴ / sin⁴
    • Yale: sìhm / sìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sim⁴ / sin⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: xim⁴ / xin⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːm²¹/, /siːn²¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: sièng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sieŋ⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siân
    • Tâi-lô: siân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sieen
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siɛn²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siɛn²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɛn¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siɛn²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɛn²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: siam⁵ / siang⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: siâm / siâng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siam⁵⁵/, /siaŋ⁵⁵/

Note: siang5 - Chenghai.

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• Middle Chinese: dzyen

Rime
Character	嬋
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	市連切
Baxter	dzyen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑiᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑjæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑian/
Li Rong	/ʑiɛn/
Wang Li	/ʑĭɛn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʑi̯ɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sin4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*djan/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嬋
Reading #	1/1
No.	2032
Phonetic component	單
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	鋋
Old Chinese	/*djan/

Definitions

嬋

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Compounds

• 嬋娟 / 婵娟 (chánjuān)
• 嬋娟刃 / 婵娟刃
• 嬋媛 / 婵媛 (chányuán)
• 嬋連 / 婵连

References

• “嬋”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

嬋

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ぜん (zen)
• Kan-on: せん (sen)
• Kun: ひきつなが (hikitsunaga)、みうち (miuchi)

Korean

Hanja

嬋 (eum 선 (seon))

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Vietnamese

Han character

嬋: Hán Nôm readings: thiền, thuyền

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References

• Nom Foundation