僊

See also: 仙

僊 U+50CA, 僊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-50CA ← 僉 [U+50C9] CJK Unified Ideographs 僋 → [U+50CB]

Translingual

Han character

僊 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+11, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人一田山 (OMWU), four-corner 2121₂, composition ⿰亻䙴 (TK) or ⿰亻⿱䙲巳 (GJ))

Related characters

• 仙 (currently used in both traditional and simplified Chinese to replace the archaic form 僊)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 115, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1055
• Dae Jaweon: page 246, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 209, character 2
• Unihan data for U+50CA

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 僊
Small seal script s05903
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

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

	Old Chinese
遷	*sʰen
櫏	*sʰen
韆	*sʰen
僊	*sen
躚	*sen, *seːn
蹮	*seːn

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sen) : semantic 人 (“person”) + phonetic 䙴 (OC *sʰen).

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 僊 – see 仙 (“xian; extraordinary person; etc.”). (This character is the simplified form of 仙).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Compounds

• 僊人／仙人 (xiānrén)
• 僊僊／仙仙
• 水僊／水仙 (shuǐxiān)
• 登僊／登仙 (dēngxiān)
• 神僊／神仙 (shénxiān)
• 翩僊／翩仙 (piānxiān)
• 謫僊／谪仙

 

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 僊 – see 遷 (“to ascend; to go up; to promote; to be promoted; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 遷).

Japanese

Kanji

僊

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): せん (sen)
• Kun: やまびと (yamabito); せんにん (sennin)

Korean

Hanja

僊 • (seon) (hangeul 선, revised seon, McCune–Reischauer sŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

僊: Hán Nôm readings: tiên

1. (Taoism) immortals

References

• Nom Foundation