腺

Translingual

Etymology

Coined in Japan (kokuji) in late 1700s - early 1800s by rangaku scholar Udagawa Genshin as a translation for Dutch klier (“gland”), as a compound of Sinitic elements 肉 + 泉.

Han character

腺 (radical 130 肉+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月竹日水 (BHAE), four-corner 7623₂)

1. gland

Usage notes

This is a Japanese-coined character used outside Japanese.

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 990, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29746
• Dae Jaweon: page 1442, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2097, character 5
• Unihan data for U+817A

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Cantonese

Hanzi

腺 (Jyutping sin3, Yale sin3)

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Japanese

Kanji

腺

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. gland

Readings

• Kan’yōon: せん (sen)

Compounds

• 腺状
• 甲状腺
• 管状腺
• 涙腺
• 耳下腺 (じかせん, jikasen, “parotid gland”)
• 顎下腺
• 舌下腺
• 唾液腺

• 前立腺
• カウパー腺
• スキーン腺
• バルトリン腺
• 汗腺
• 皮脂腺
• 性腺
• 毒腺

Usage notes

Used as a suffix in names of glands.

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

腺 (Pinyin xiàn (xian4), Wade-Giles hsien⁴)

1. gland

Compounds

• 腺体
• 腺嘌呤

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Vietnamese

Han character

腺 (tuyến)

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