錛

See also: 锛

錛 U+931B, 錛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-931B ← 錚 [U+931A] CJK Unified Ideographs 錜 → [U+931C]

Translingual

Han character

錛 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 金大十廿 (CKJT), four-corner 8414₄, composition ⿰釒奔)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1310, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40554
• Dae Jaweon: page 1812, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4216, character 15
• Unihan data for U+931B

Chinese

trad.		錛
simp.		锛

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (奔) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
賁	*prals, *bɯl, *pɯːn, *bɯn
蟦	*bɯl, *bɯlʔ, *bɯls
膹	*bɯlʔ, *bɯnʔ
橨	*bɯlʔ, *bɯn
奔	*pɯːn, *pɯːns
錛	*pɯːn
噴	*pʰɯːn, *pʰɯːns, *pɯns
濆	*pʰɯːn, *bɯn
歕	*pʰɯːn, *pʰɯːns
獖	*bɯːnʔ
餴	*pɯn
饙	*pɯn
僨	*pɯns
墳	*bɯn, *bɯnʔ
燌	*bɯn
豶	*bɯn
羵	*bɯn
蕡	*bɯn
鐼	*bɯn, *hmɯns
馩	*bɯn
轒	*bɯn, *bɯnʔ
鼖	*bɯn
憤	*bɯnʔ
鱝	*bɯnʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bēn (ben¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ban¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bēn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ben
    • Wade–Giles: pên¹
    • Yale: bēn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ben
    • Palladius: бэнь (bɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ban¹
    • Yale: bān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ban¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ben¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐn⁵⁵/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*pɯːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	錛
Reading #	1/1
No.	441
Phonetic component	奔
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	奔
Old Chinese	/*pɯːn/

Definitions

錛

1. adze
2. to cut with an adze
3. dent (edge of a knife)

Compounds

• 錛子／锛子 (bēnzi)
• 錛鋤／锛锄