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Unicode name CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-524D
Codepoint U+524D

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Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
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Phonosemantic interpretation[edit]

Old Chinese Initial /*s-/ lends semantic value Small/Thin/Slender. Final consonant /*-n/ lends semantic value Adhere/Be Proximate. Seal script style of the phono-semantic indicator combines an abbreviated form of (boat progressing along a prescribed course) + (leg/foot) → progression of boats or of people on foot. The addition of semantic indicator sword/knife suggests forward progress in small, choppy increments (compare and ). Present-day meanings are via association and extension. Source: Howell & Morimoto

Etymology[edit]

Ideogram (指事) – relatively complex, a boat (, now simplified to ) headed forwards, onward (the top was originally , now simplified to ).

Han character[edit]

(radical 18 +7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿月中弓 (TBLN), four-corner 80221, composition ⿱⿱)

  1. in front, forward
  2. preceding

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 140, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2011
  • Dae Jaweon: page 318, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 248, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+524D

Cantonese[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

(Yale chin4)


Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Etymology[edit]

mape > maɸe > mawe > mae. Literally "before one's eyes". Compound of ma (eye) and pe (direction).

Noun[edit]

(hiragana まえ, romaji mae, historical hiragana まへ)

  1. the front
  2. the past

Prefix[edit]

(hiragana ぜん, romaji zen-)

  1. the last, the previous
  2. pre- (of an era)

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

(hangeul , revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn)

  1. front (direction)
  2. before

Mandarin[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

(pinyin qián (qian2), shā (sha1), Wade-Giles ch'ien2, sha1)


Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

(tiền, tèn)