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U+9BAE, 鮮
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9BAE

[U+9BAD]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+9BAF]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 195, +6, 17 strokes, cangjie input 弓火廿手 (NFTQ), four-corner 28351, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1470, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46133
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2002, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4688, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+9BAE

Chinese

Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 鮮, Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) ...

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sen, *senʔ, *sens): semantic (fish) + abbreviated phonetic (OC *qʰreːn, *qʰljen).

Alternatively, may be ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): (fish) + (sheep) – delicious.

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sar (new; fresh). Cognate with Proto-Tibeto-Burman *g-sar (new; fresh), whence Tibetan གསར་བ (gsar ba, new; fresh), Rawang angsar (new), Drung aksal (new), Mizo tʰarᴴ (new) (Schuessler, 2007); cognate with Tibetan གསར་ (gsar, new), Burmese ဆန်း (hcan:, new, fresh) (Hill, 2019).

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • chiĕng - vernacular;
  • siĕng - literary.

  • Dialectal data
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Definitions

  1. seafood; aquatic food
       hǎixiān   seafood
  2. delicious food; fresh food
       chángxiān   to taste fresh food
  3. fresh; not stale
       xiān   fresh fish
  4. brightly colored; gaily colored
    顏色 [MSC, trad.]
    颜色 [MSC, simp.]
    Nà kuài bù de yánsè hěn xiān. [Pinyin]
    The color of that piece of cloth is very bright.
  5. delicious; tasty
    媽媽味道 [MSC, trad.]
    妈妈味道 [MSC, simp.]
    Māmā zhǔ de tāng de wèidào hěn xiān. [Pinyin]
    The soup that mother cooked tastes delicious.
  6. not yet withered; not yet wilted (of flowers, grass, etc.)
       xiānhuā   fresh flower
  7. special; peculiar; strange and interesting
    屢見不屡见不   lǚjiànbùxiān   common occurrence
    小孩 [MSC, trad.]
    小孩 [MSC, simp.]
    Xiǎohái shuō de huà hěn xiān. [Pinyin]
    The words of the child were peculiar.
  8. (Hakka) thin; dilute
  9. (Zhangzhou Hokkien) sky blue; azure
    [Hokkien]   chheⁿ-sek [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]   sky blue
  10. a surname
Synonyms

Compounds

Descendants

  • Vietnamese: tươi

Etymology 2

Etymology not clear (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

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Definitions

  1. rare; little; few
  2. rarely; infrequently
  3. to lack; to be short of
  4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of  / 𪩘 (yǎn, the top of a mountain; cliff; small mountain)

Compounds

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

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Definitions

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of  / (to offer; to present)

Compounds

  • 惠鮮 / 惠鲜

Further reading

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Japanese

Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: せん (sen, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: せん (sen, Jōyō)
  • Kun: あざやか (azayaka, 鮮やか, Jōyō)すくない (sukunai, 鮮い)あたらしい (atarashii, 鮮しい)

Compounds

Etymology

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From Middle Chinese (MC sjen|sjenX|sjenH).

Pronunciation

Affix

(せん) (sen) せん (sen)?

  1. fresh
  2. vivid
  3. (Empire of Japan) Korea
    (ぜん)(せん)zensenthe entirety of Korea
    (ない)(せん)一体(いったい)naisen ittaiunification of the mainland and Korea

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun 고울 (goul seon))

  1. hanja form? of (smooth; fish)

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: tiên, tắn

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