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Translingual
Han character
繕 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 女火廿土口 (VFTGR) or 女火廿廿口 (VFTTR), four-corner 28961, composition ⿰糹善)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 938, character 34
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27893
- Dae Jaweon: page 1377, character 30
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3454, character 3
- Unihan data for U+7E55
Chinese
Glyph origin
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡjens): semantic 糸 (“thread; textile”) + phonetic 善 (OC *ɡjenʔ, “good”). Also Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): to repair; to make good.
Etymology
Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *glan (“to repair”), cognate to Tibetan གླན་པ (glan pa, “to patch; to mend”) and related forms (Gong 1995; STEDT).
Pronunciation
- 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/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: sin6
- Yale: sihn
- Cantonese Pinyin: sin6
- Guangdong Romanization: xin6
- Sinological IPA (key): /siːn²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Middle Chinese: dzyenH
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]e[n]ʔ-s/
- (Zhengzhang): /*ɡjens/
Definitions
繕
- to repair; to mend
- to copy neatly; to transcribe
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to prepare; to renovate
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to keep; to maintain
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) firm; resolute
Compounds
References
- “繕”, 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–
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Kanji
繕
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Korean
Hanja
繕 • (seon) (hangeul 선, revised seon, McCune–Reischauer sŏn, Yale sen)
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