籤

See also 籖

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 韱

Han character

籤 (radical 118 竹+17, 23 strokes, cangjie input 竹人戈一 (HOIM), four-corner 8815₃, composition ⿱⺮韱)

1. tally
2. lot
3. marker

References

• KangXi: page 905, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26769
• Dae Jaweon: page 1330, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3032, character 15
• Unihan data for U+7C64

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Cantonese

Hanzi

籤 (Yale chim1)

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Japanese

Kanji

籤

Readings

• On: せん (sen)
• Kun: くじ (kuji), かずとり (kazutori)

Noun

籤 (hiragana くじ, romaji kuji)

1. lottery

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Korean

Hanja

籤 (hangeul 첨, revised cheom, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏm, Yale chem)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

籤 (pinyin qiān (qian1), Wade-Giles ch'ien¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

籤 (thiêm, tiêm)