粲粲

Chinese

		beautiful; bright; splendid beautiful; bright; splendid; smilingly	beautiful; bright; splendid beautiful; bright; splendid; smilingly
trad. (粲粲)		粲	粲
simp. #(粲粲)		粲	粲

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): càncàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄢˋ ㄘㄢˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: càncàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄢˋ ㄘㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: càncàn
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻan⁴-tsʻan⁴
    • Yale: tsàn-tsàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsanntsann
    • Palladius: цаньцань (canʹcanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰän⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡sʰän⁵¹/

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• Middle Chinese: tshanH tshanH

Rime
Character	粲
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	寒 (61)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	蒼案切
Baxter	tshanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰɑnH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰɑnH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰɑnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰanH/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰɑnH/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰɑnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	càn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	caan3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[tsʰ]ˤar-s  [tsʰ]ˤar-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰaːns  sʰaːns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	粲
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	càn
Middle Chinese	‹ tshanH ›
Old Chinese	/*[tsʰ]ˁar-s/
English	bright and white
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	粲
Reading #	1/1
No.	1119
Phonetic component	粲
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	粲
Old Chinese	/*sʰaːns/
Notes	聲符本歺又，粲爲去蕪取精， 與之同源

Adjective

粲粲

1. (literary) bright; radiant
2. (literary) smiling; beaming
3. (literary) wide; vast

Japanese

Kanji in this term
粲	粲
さん Hyōgaiji	さん Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 粲粲 – see the following entry.

【燦々さんさん】 [adjective] brilliant, bright Alternative spellings 燦燦, 粲々

(This term, 粲粲, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)