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Translingual [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Coined in Japan (kokuji) in late 1700s - early 1800s by rangaku scholar Udagawa Genshin as a translation for Dutch klier.  + .

Han character [edit]

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

  1. gland

Usage notes [edit]

This is a Japanese-coined character used outside Japanese.

References [edit]

  • 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

Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(Yale sin3)


Japanese [edit]

Kanji [edit]

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. gland

Readings [edit]

Compounds [edit]

Usage notes [edit]

Used as a suffix in names of glands.


Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]

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


Mandarin [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(pinyin xiàn (xian4), Wade-Giles hsien4)

Compounds [edit]


Vietnamese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(tuyến)