線

See also 缐, 綫, and 线

Translingual

Han character

線 (radical 120 糸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 女火竹日水 (VFHAE), four-corner 2693₂, composition ⿰糹泉)

1. thread, line, wire, string
2. clue

References

• KangXi: page 930, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27641
• Dae Jaweon: page 1368, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3428, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7DDA

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Cantonese

Hanzi

線 (simplified 线, Yale sin3)

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Japanese

Noun

線 (hiragana せん, romaji sen)

1. a line
2. a level
3. a beam

Kanji

線 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: せん (sen)
• Kun: すじ (suji)

Compounds

• 光線 (こうせん, kōsen): a ray of light
• 新幹線 (しんかんせん, shinkansen): A Japanese super express, bullet train, a line which extremely fast trains run on in Japan; shinkansen
• 宇宙線 (うちゅうせん, uchūsen): cosmic rays
• 紫外線 (しがいせん, shigaisen): ultraviolet rays
• 赤外線 (せきがいせん, sekigaisen): infrared rays
• 不可視光線 (ふかしこうせん, fukashi kōsen): an invisible ray of light
• 線圈 (せんけん, senken): a coil, a solenoid

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Korean

Hanja

線 (hangeul 선, revised seon, McCune-Reischauer sŏn, Yale sen)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

線 (simplified 线, pinyin xiàn (xian4), Wade-Giles hsien⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

線 (tuyến)