斬

See also: 斩 and 䡊

Translingual

Han character

斬 (radical 69 斤+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 十十竹一中 (JJHML), four-corner 5202₁, composition ⿰車斤)

1. cut, chop, sever
2. behead

References

• KangXi: page 479, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13555
• Dae Jaweon: page 838, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2024, character 10
• Unihan data for U+65AC

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Chinese

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trad.		斬
simp.		斩

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhǎn (zhan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zaam²
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): chám
• Min Nan (POJ): chàm

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄢˇ
    • Wade-Giles: chan³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jaan
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂa̠n²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zaam²
    • Yale: jáam
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzaam²
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɑːm³⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chám
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /t͡sam³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chàm
    • Tâi-lô: tsàm
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sam¹¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sam²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (斬, reconstructed)
Character (斬), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 莊 (18) Final: 咸 Division: II			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 側減切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡ʃɣɛmX/	/ʈ͡ʂămX/	/t͡ʃɐmX/	/ʈ͡ʂɯæmX/	/ʈ͡ʂəɨmX/	/t͡ʃɐmX/	/t͡ʃɐmX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (斬, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
斬								zhǎn								‹ tsrɛmX ›								/*[ts]ramʔ/								cut off
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
斬					16796					斬					談					2					斬					/*ʔsreːmʔ/

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Japanese

Kanji

斬

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: せん (sen)
• Kan’on: さん (san)
• Kan’yōon: ざん (zan)
• Kun: き (ki)

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Korean

Hanja

斬 (cham) (hangeul 참, revised cham, McCune-Reischauer ch'am, Yale cham)

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Vietnamese

Han character

斬 (trảm, chém)

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