僉

See also: 㑒 and 佥

Translingual

shinjitai	㑒
simplified	佥
traditional	僉

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 亼 + 吅 + 从

Han character

僉 (radical 9 人+11, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人一口人 (OMRO), four-corner 8088₆, composition ⿳亼⿰口口从)

1. all, together, unanimous

Descendants

Simplified as a component in Japanese shinjitai and in simplified Chinese, as in 檢 → 検, 检.

• Shinjitai: 㑒
• Simplified Chinese: 佥

References

• KangXi: page 115, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1054
• Dae Jaweon: page 246, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 207, character 3
• Unihan data for U+50C9

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Chinese

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trad.		僉
simp.		佥

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qiān (qian¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cim¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: qiān
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'ien¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chian
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cim¹
    • Yale: chīm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsim¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːm⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (僉, reconstructed)
Character (僉), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 清 (14) Final: 鹽 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 七廉切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡sʰiᴇm/	/t͡sʰi̯ɛm/	/t͡sʰiɛm/	/t͡sʰiɛm/	/t͡sʰiam/	/t͡sʰĭɛm/	/t͡sʰjæm/

Old Chinese pronunciation (僉, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
僉								qiān								‹ tshjem ›								/*s.qʰ[a]m (dialect: *s.qʰ > MC tsh-)/								all; many
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
僉					10202					僉					談					1					籤					/*skʰlam/

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Japanese

Kanji

僉

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: せん (sen)
• Kun: みな (mina), ことごとく (kotogotoku), ともに (tomoni)

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Korean

Hanja

僉 (cheom) (hangeul 첨, revised cheom, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏm, Yale chem)

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