刌

刌 U+520C, 刌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-520C ← 刋 [U+520B] CJK Unified Ideographs 刍 → [U+520D]

Translingual

Han character

刌 (Kangxi radical 18, 刀+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 木戈中弓 (DILN), four-corner 4230₀, composition ⿰寸刂)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 136, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1870
• Dae Jaweon: page 308, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 324, character 2
• Unihan data for U+520C

Chinese

simp. and trad.		刌

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
村	*sʰuːn
忖	*sʰuːnʔ
刌	*sʰuːnʔ
寸	*sʰuːns

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cǔn, huá, huà (cun³, hua², hua⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄣˇ, ㄏㄨㄚˊ, ㄏㄨㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cǔn
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cǔn
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻun³
    • Yale: tswǔn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsoen
    • Palladius: цунь (cunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu̯ən²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huá
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huá
    • Wade–Giles: hua²
    • Yale: hwá
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwa
    • Palladius: хуа (xua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huà
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huà
    • Wade–Giles: hua⁴
    • Yale: hwà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huah
    • Palladius: хуа (xua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cyun²
    • Yale: chyún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn²
    • Guangdong Romanization: qun²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰyːn³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tshwonX

Rime
Character	刌
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	倉本切
Baxter	tshwonX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰuənX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰuonX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰuənX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰwənX/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰuənX/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰuənX/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰuənX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cǔn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cyun2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[tsʰ]ˤu[n]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰuːnʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	刌
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cǔn
Middle Chinese	‹ tshwonX ›
Old Chinese	/*[tsʰ]ˁu[n]ʔ/
English	cut, chop
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	刌
Reading #	1/1
No.	1912
Phonetic component	寸
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	忖
Old Chinese	/*sʰuːnʔ/

Definitions

刌

1. (literary) to cut off, to sever

Japanese

Kanji

刌

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): そん (son); せん (sen)
• Kun: きる (kiru); たつ (tatsu); さく (saku)

Korean

Hanja

刌 (eum 촌 (chon))

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Vietnamese

Han character

刌: Hán Nôm readings: thổn, thon

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