梣

梣 U+68A3, 梣 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-68A3 ← 梢 [U+68A2] CJK Unified Ideographs 梤 → [U+68A4]

Translingual

Han character

梣 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 木山人弓 (DUON), four-corner 4292₇, composition ⿰木岑)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 530, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14867
• Dae Jaweon: page 918, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1215, character 3
• Unihan data for U+68A3

Chinese

trad.		梣
simp. #		梣

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
貪	*kʰl'uːm
嗿	*l̥ʰuːmʔ
僋	*l̥ʰuːms, *luːms
酓	*qʰɯːm, *qlamʔ, *qlɯːms
馠	*qʰɯːm
谽	*qʰɯːm
唅	*qʰɯːm, *ɡɯːms
含	*ɡɯːm
肣	*ɡɯːm, *ɡɯːmʔ
頷	*ɡɯːm, *ɡɯːmʔ
筨	*ɡɯːm
梒	*ɡɯːm
鋡	*ɡɯːm
莟	*ɡɯːmʔ, *ɡɯːms
琀	*ɡɯːms
浛	*ɡɯːms
盦	*qɯːm, *qaːb
韽	*qɯːm, *qrɯːms
玪	*krɯːm
妗	*qʰrɯːm, *kʰjam, *qʰlɯːm, *ɡrɯms
欦	*qʰrɯːmʔ, *qʰram, *kʰlam, *kʰlamʔ, *qʰlɯːm
黔	*ɡram, *ɡrɯm
鈐	*ɡram
鳹	*ɡram
雂	*ɡram, *ɡrɯm
念	*nɯːms
梣	*sɡɯm, *sɡrɯm
枔	*sɢrɯm
岑	*sɡrɯm
笒	*sɡrɯm, *ɡrɯms
涔	*sɡrɯm
侺	*ɡjɯms
今	*krɯm
黅	*krɯm
衿	*krɯm
衾	*kʰrɯm
坅	*kʰrɯmʔ
搇	*kʰrɯms
琴	*ɡrɯm
禽	*ɡrɯm
芩	*ɡrɯm
庈	*ɡrɯm
耹	*ɡrɯm
靲	*ɡrɯm
擒	*ɡrɯm
檎	*ɡrɯm
紟	*ɡrɯms
吟	*ŋɡrɯm, *ŋɡrɯms
訡	*ŋɡrɯm
廞	*qʰrɯm, *qʰrɯmʔ
陰	*qrɯm
霠
飲	*qrɯmʔ, *qrɯms
蔭	*qrɯms
廕	*qrɯms
矜	*ɡrɯn, *ɡɯn, *kɯŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sɡɯm, *sɡrɯm): semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 岑 (OC *sɡrɯm).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cén (cen²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sam⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cén
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cén
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻên²
    • Yale: tsén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsern
    • Palladius: цэнь (cɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sam⁴
    • Yale: sàhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: sem⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐm²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: dzim, dzrim

Rime
Character	梣	梣
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	從 (15)	崇 (20)
Final (韻)	侵 (139)	侵 (140)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	昨淫切	鋤針切
Baxter	dzim	dzrim
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ziɪm/	/d͡ʒˠiɪm/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡zim/	/ɖ͡ʐᵚim/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡zjem/	/d͡ʒiem/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡zim/	/ɖ͡ʐjim/
Li Rong	/d͡ziəm/	/d͡ʒjəm/
Wang Li	/d͡zĭĕm/	/d͡ʒĭĕm/
Bernhard Karlgren	/d͡zʱi̯əm/	/ɖ͡ʐʱi̯əm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qín	chén
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cam4	cam4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sɡɯm/, /*sɡrɯm/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	梣	梣
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	6592	6597
Phonetic component	今	今
Rime group	侵	侵
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	𩷒	岑
Old Chinese	/*sɡɯm/	/*sɡrɯm/

Definitions

梣

1. Chinese ash tree (Fraxinus chinensis)

   • 夫梣木色青翳。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad. and simp.]

     From: Huainanzi, 2^nd century BCE

     Fú cén mù sè qīng yì. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Synonyms

• 白蠟樹／白蜡树 (báilàshù)
• 水青木 (shuǐqīngmù) (Korean Classical Chinese)

Compounds

• 梣樹 / 梣树

References

• “梣”, 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–