擅

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 手 (“hands”) + phonetic 亶

Han character

擅 (radical 64 手+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 手卜田一 (QYWM), four-corner 5001₆)

1. monopolize
2. claim
3. arbitrarily
4. to dare

References

• KangXi: page 457, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12790
• Dae Jaweon: page 806, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1971, character 4
• Unihan data for U+64C5

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Cantonese

Hanzi

擅 (Yale sin6)

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Japanese

Kanji

擅

Readings

• On: せん (sen)
• Kun: ほしいまま (hoshiimama)

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Korean

Hanja

擅 (hangeul 천, revised cheon, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏn, Yale chen)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

擅 (pinyin shàn (shan4), Wade-Giles shan⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

擅 (thiện, chen)