剬

剬 U+526C, 剬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-526C ← 剫 [U+526B] CJK Unified Ideographs 剭 → [U+526D]

Translingual

Han character

剬 (Kangxi radical 18, 刀+9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 山月中弓 (UBLN), four-corner 2220₀, composition ⿰耑刂)

Derived characters

• 𢳐

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 142, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2091
• Dae Jaweon: page 322, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 348, character 7
• Unihan data for U+526C

Chinese

simp. and trad.		剬

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 剬
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
揣	*toːlʔ, *sʰrolʔ
褍	*toːlʔ, *toːn
惴	*tjols
圌	*djol, *djon
篅	*djol, *djon
瑞	*djols
端	*toːn
剬	*toːn, *tjonʔ
偳	*toːn, *tʰoːn
鍴	*toːn
耑	*toːn
踹	*toːns, *djonʔ
湍	*tʰoːn, *tjon
煓	*tʰoːn
貒	*tʰoːn, *tʰoːns
諯	*stʰons, *tjon, *tʰjons, *djon
顓	*tjon
喘	*tʰjonʔ
遄	*djon
輲	*djon
椯	*djon
歂	*djon, *djonʔ
腨	*djonʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *toːn, *tjonʔ): phonetic 耑 (OC *toːn) + semantic 刂 (“knife”).

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): duān (duan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄢ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: duān
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: duan
    • Wade–Giles: tuan¹
    • Yale: dwān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duan
    • Palladius: дуань (duanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu̯än⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: twan

Rime
Character	剬
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	多官切
Baxter	twan
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tuɑn/
Pan Wuyun	/tʷɑn/
Shao Rongfen	/tuɑn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/twan/
Li Rong	/tuɑn/
Wang Li	/tuɑn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tuɑn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	duān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dyun1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*toːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	剬
Reading #	1/2
No.	2501
Phonetic component	耑
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	端
Old Chinese	/*toːn/

Definitions

剬

1. (historical dictionaries only) to cut or trim evenly
2. (by extension, Classical) to cut off; to eliminate

Compounds

• 剬削

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 剬 – see 剸. (This character is a variant form of 剸).

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 剬 – see 制 (“to plan; to regulate; to restrict; to limit; to control; etc.”). (This character is an obsolete form of 制).

References

• 羅竹風 [Luo, Zhufeng], editor (1986–1994), “剬”, in 漢語大詞典 [Hanyu Da Cidian] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Shanghai: Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House, →ISBN
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B00236
• “剬”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

剬

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): たん (tan)、せん (sen)、せい (sei)
• Kun: たつ (tatsu)、さばく (sabaku)

Korean

Hanja

剬 • (dan) (hangeul 단, revised dan, McCune–Reischauer tan)

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