鮮

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 魚 (“‘fish’”) + phonetic 羴

A kind of fish.

[edit] Han character

鮮 (radical 195 魚+6, 17 strokes, cangjie input 弓火廿手 (NFTQ), four-corner 2835₁, composition ⿰魚羊)

1. fresh, new, delicious
2. rare, few

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 1470, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46133
• Dae Jaweon: page 2002, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4688, character 6
• Unihan data for U+9BAE

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

鮮 (simplified 鲜, jyutping sin1, sin2, Yale sin1, sin2)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

鮮 (common kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: せん (sen)
• Kun: あざやか (azayaka), すくない (sukunai)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

鮮
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 선 (revised: seon, McCune-Reischauer: sŏn, Yale: sen)

• Name (hangeul): 고울()

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

鮮 (simplified 鲜, pinyin xiān (xian1), xiǎn (xian3), xiàn (xian4), Wade-Giles hsien¹, hsien³, hsien⁴)

[edit] Compounds

• 海鮮 (seafood)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

鮮 (tiên)