腺

腺 U+817A, 腺 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-817A ← 腹 [U+8179] CJK Unified Ideographs 腻 → [U+817B]

Translingual

Han character

腺 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月竹日水 (BHAE), four-corner 7623₂, composition ⿰⺼泉)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 990, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29746
• Dae Jaweon: page 1442, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2097, character 5
• Unihan data for U+817A

Chinese

trad.		腺
simp. #		腺

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• 腺

Glyph origin

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 腺(せん) (sen).

Etymology

Spelling pronunciation, as 線／线 (xiàn).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiàn (xian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sin³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sien
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sòaⁿ / siàn / sàn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siàn
    • Wade–Giles: hsien⁴
    • Yale: syàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiann
    • Palladius: сянь (sjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: sin³
    • Yale: sin
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sin³
    • Guangdong Romanization: xin³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːn³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sien
    • Hakka Romanization System: xien
    • Hagfa Pinyim: xian⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /si̯en⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sòaⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: suànn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: svoax
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /suã²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /suã¹¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /suã⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siàn
    • Tâi-lô: siàn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siexn
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /siɛn²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siɛn⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siɛn¹¹/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sàn
    • Tâi-lô: sàn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: saxn
    • IPA (Taipei): /san¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /san²¹/

Note:

• siàn - literary;
• sòaⁿ - vernacular.

Definitions

腺

1. (anatomy) gland

Compounds

• 乳腺 (rǔxiàn)
• 乳腺炎 (rǔxiànyán)
• 內分泌腺 / 内分泌腺
• 前列腺 (qiánlièxiàn)
• 前庭大腺 (qiántíngdàxiàn, “Bartholin's gland”)
• 前庭小腺 (qiántíngxiǎoxiàn, “Skene's gland”)
• 唾液腺 (tuòyèxiàn)
• 唾腺 (tuòxiàn)
• 外分泌腺
• 尿道球腺 (niàodàoqiúxiàn, “bulbourethral gland”)
• 性腺 (xìngxiàn)
• 扁桃腺 (biǎntáoxiàn, “tonsil”)
• 扁桃腺炎 (biǎntáoxiàn yán)
• 攝護腺 / 摄护腺 (shèhùxiàn)
• 毒腺 (dúxiàn)
• 汗腺 (hànxiàn)
• 消化腺 (xiāohuàxiàn)
• 淋巴腺 (línbāxiàn)
• 淚腺 / 泪腺 (lèixiàn)
• 無管腺 / 无管腺
• 生殖腺 (shēngzhíxiàn)
• 甲狀腺 / 甲状腺 (jiǎzhuàngxiàn)
• 甲狀腺素 / 甲状腺素 (jiǎzhuàngxiànsù)
• 甲狀腺腫 / 甲状腺肿 (jiǎzhuàngxiànzhǒng)
• 皮脂腺 (pízhīxiàn)
• 瞼腺炎 / 睑腺炎
• 耳下腺 (ěrxiàxiàn)
• 耵聹腺 / 耵聍腺 (tīngníngxiàn)
• 胃腺 (wèixiàn)
• 脂肪腺
• 胸腺 (xiōngxiàn)
• 腎上腺 / 肾上腺 (shènshàngxiàn)
• 腎上腺素 / 肾上腺素 (shènshàngxiànsù)
• 腦下腺 / 脑下腺
• 腦上腺 / 脑上腺
• 腺嘌呤 (xiànpiàolìng, “adenine”)
• 腺病毒 (xiànbìngdú)
• 腺細胞 / 腺细胞
• 腮腺 (sāixiàn)
• 腸腺 / 肠腺
• 腮腺炎 (sāixiànyán)
• 腺體 / 腺体 (xiàntǐ, “gland”)
• 臭腺
• 舌下腺 (shéxiàxiàn)
• 蜜腺
• 頜下腺 / 颌下腺 (héxiàxiàn)
• 頷下腺 / 颔下腺
• 顎下腺 / 颚下腺