椽

椽 U+693D, 椽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-693D ← 椼 [U+693C] CJK Unified Ideographs 椾 → [U+693E]

Translingual

Han character

椽 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 木女弓人 (DVNO), four-corner 4793₂, composition ⿰木彖)

Derived characters

• 𭏷

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 538, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15087
• Dae Jaweon: page 925, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1259, character 2
• Unihan data for U+693D

Chinese

simp. and trad.		椽

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
蠡	*reːlʔ, *rel, *roːl
盠	*reːlʔ, *reːl
彖	*l̥ʰjelʔ, *hljelʔ, *l̥ʰoːns
墬	*l'els
喙	*hlods, *l̥ʰjods
餯	*hlods
剶	*ʔslon, *l̥ʰon
猭	*l̥ʰon, *l̥ʰons
鶨	*l̥ʰons, *l'uːns
椽	*l'on
篆	*l'onʔ
瑑	*l'onʔ
堟	*l'onʔ
蝝	*lon
緣	*lon, *lons
櫞	*lon
掾	*lons
褖	*l̥ʰoːns
湪	*l̥ʰoːns

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chuán (chuan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thoân / iân

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chuán
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chuán
    • Wade–Giles: chʻuan²
    • Yale: chwán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chwan
    • Palladius: чуань (čuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: cyun⁴
    • Yale: chyùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: qun⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰyːn²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thoân
    • Tâi-lô: thuân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: toaan
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰuan¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /tʰuan²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iân
    • Tâi-lô: iân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ieen
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɛn²³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /iɛn²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: drjwen

Rime
Character	椽
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	仙 (80)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	直攣切
Baxter	drjwen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖˠiuᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖʷᵚiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡiuæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖwian/
Li Rong	/ȡjuɛn/
Wang Li	/ȡĭwɛn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȡʱi̯wɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chuán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cyun4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lron/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'on/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	椽
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chuán
Middle Chinese	‹ drjwen ›
Old Chinese	/*lron/
English	beam, rafter
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	椽
Reading #	1/1
No.	12522
Phonetic component	彖
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	椽
Old Chinese	/*l'on/

Definitions

椽

1. rafter; beam; support
2. Classifier for rooms.

Compounds

• 一椽
• 大筆如椽 / 大笔如椽
• 如椽筆 / 如椽笔
• 根椽片瓦
• 棌椽
• 椽子 (chuánzi)
• 椽木
• 椽柱
• 椽梁
• 椽桷
• 椽櫪 / 椽枥
• 椽筆 / 椽笔
• 榱椽
• 片瓦根椽
• 茅椽蓬牖
• 采椽
• 采椽不斲
• 陳椽 / 陈椽
• 隔屋攛椽 / 隔屋撺椽

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 椽

椽

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. rafter

Readings

• Go-on: でん (den)、えん (en)
• Kan-on: てん (ten)、えん (en)
• Kun: たるき (taruki)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
椽
えん Hyōgai
on'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 椽 – see the following entry.

【縁えん】S [noun] 縁, 椽: (Japanese architecture) a veranda or terrace surrounding a house: engawa

(This term, 椽, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

• “^▲椽”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

椽 • (yeon, jeon) (hangeul 연, 전, revised yeon, jeon, McCune–Reischauer yŏn, chŏn, Yale yen, cen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

椽: Hán Nôm readings: duyên

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References

• Nom Foundation