箭

Translingual

Han character

箭 (radical 118 竹+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹廿月弓 (HTBN), four-corner 8822₁, composition ⿱⺮前)

Synonyms

• 矢

See also

• 弓

References

• KangXi: page 889, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26193
• Dae Jaweon: page 1317, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2994, character 8
• Unihan data for U+7BAD

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		箭

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiàn (jian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zin³
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): chien
• Min Nan (POJ): chìⁿ
• Wu (WT Romanisation): tsi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jiàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄢˋ
    • Wade-Giles: chien⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiann
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zin³
    • Yale: jin
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzin³
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡siːn³³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chien
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /t͡ɕi̯en⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chìⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tsìnn
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕĩ¹¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕĩ²¹/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: tsi
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡si/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (箭, reconstructed)
Character (箭), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 精 (13) Final: 仙 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 子賤切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡siᴇnH/	/t͡si̯ɛnH/	/t͡siɛnH/	/t͡siɛnH/	/t͡sianH/	/t͡sĭɛnH/	/t͡sjænH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (箭, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
箭								jiàn								‹ tsjenH ›								/*[ts]en-s/								arrow
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
箭					10250					前					元					2					箭					/*ʔslens/

Definitions

箭

1. arrow
2. type of bamboo

Synonyms

• 矢

Compounds

Derived terms

• 短箭

• 箭囊

• 箭在弦上

• 箭垛子

• 箭桿／箭杆

• 箭樓／箭楼

• 箭步

• 箭石

• 箭窗

• 箭竹

• 箭鏃／箭镞

• 箭靶子

• 箭頭／箭头

• 箭頭兒／箭头儿

• 箭魚／箭鱼

• 箭魚／箭鱼

• 開弓沒有回頭箭／开弓没有回头箭

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Japanese

Kanji

箭

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: せん (sen)
• Kun: や (ya)

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Korean

Hanja

箭 (jeon) (hangeul 전, McCune-Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

箭 (tiến, tiễn, tên)

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