汕

汕 U+6C55, 汕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C55 ← 汔 [U+6C54] CJK Unified Ideographs 汖 → [U+6C56]

Translingual

Han character

汕 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 水山 (EU), four-corner 3217₀, composition ⿰氵山)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 605, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17128
• Dae Jaweon: page 999, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1552, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6C55

Chinese

simp. and trad.		汕

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
山	*sreːn
疝	*sreːn, *sraːns
邖	*sreːn
汕	*sreːnʔ, *sraːns
訕	*sraːn, *sraːns
仙	*sen
秈	*sen
苮	*sen
屾	*srin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sreːnʔ, *sraːns): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 山 (OC *sreːn).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shàn (shan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄢˋ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): saan³

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): san¹

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sòaⁿ

  (Teochew, Peng'im): suan³ / suan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shàn
    • Wade–Giles: shan⁴
    • Yale: shàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shann
    • Palladius: шань (šanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: saan³
    • Yale: saan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saan³
    • Guangdong Romanization: san³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːn³³/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: san¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /san³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sòaⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: suànn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: svoax
    • IPA (Xiamen): /suã²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /suã⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /suã²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /suã¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /suã²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: suan³ / suan¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: suàⁿ / suaⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sũã²¹³/, /sũã³³/

Note: suan1 - in 汕頭／汕头, 潮汕.

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• Middle Chinese: sreanX, sraenH

Rime
Character	汕	汕
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	生 (21)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	山 (73)	刪 (69)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	II
Fanqie	所簡切	所晏切
Baxter	sreanX	sraenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʃˠɛnX/	/ʃˠanH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʃᵚænX/	/ʃᵚanH/
Shao Rongfen	/ʃænX/	/ʃɐnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʂəɨnX/	/ʂaɨnH/
Li Rong	/ʃɛnX/	/ʃanH/
Wang Li	/ʃænX/	/ʃanH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʂănX/	/ʂanH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shǎn	shàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	saan2	saan3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sreːnʔ/, /*sraːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	汕	汕
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	11055	11059
Phonetic component	山	山
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	2	1
Corresponding MC rime	産	訕
Old Chinese	/*sreːnʔ/	/*sraːns/

Definitions

汕

1. (of fish) moving
2. basket for catching fish
3. to catch fish
4. to rinse
5. short for 汕頭／汕头 (Shàntóu)

Compounds

• 汕尾 (Shànwěi)
• 汕汕
• 汕頭 / 汕头 (Shàntóu)
• 潮汕 (Cháoshàn)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 汕 – see 涮 (“to rinse clean; to swill; to scald thin slices of meat in boiling water; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 涮).

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 汕

汕

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: せん (sen)
• Kan-on: さん (san)
• Kun: すくいあみ (sukuiami)

Korean

Hanja

汕 • (san) (hangeul 산, revised san, McCune–Reischauer san, Yale san)

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Vietnamese

Han character

汕: Hán Nôm readings: sươn, sán, sớn

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References

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999