殲

See also: 歼 and 殱

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 歹 + phonetic 韱

Han character

殲 (radical 78 歹+17, 21 strokes, cangjie input 一弓人戈一 (MNOIM), four-corner 1325₀, composition ⿰歹韱)

1. annihilate, wipe out, kill off

References

• KangXi: page 584, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16608
• Dae Jaweon: page 977, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1396, character 10
• Unihan data for U+6BB2

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Cantonese

Hanzi

殲 (simplified 歼, Jyutping cim1, Yale chim1)

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Japanese

Kanji

殲

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: せん (sen)
• Kun: つくす (tsukusu), ほろぼす (horobosu)

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Korean

Hanja

殲 (seom) (hangeul 섬, revised seom, McCune-Reischauer sŏm, Yale sem)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

殲 (simplified 歼, Pinyin jiān (jian1), Wade-Giles chien¹)

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