擅

擅 U+64C5, 擅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-64C5 ← 擄 [U+64C4] CJK Unified Ideographs 擆 → [U+64C6]

Translingual

Han character

擅 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 手卜田一 (QYWM), four-corner 5001₆, composition ⿰扌亶)

1. monopolize
2. claim
3. arbitrarily
4. to dare
5. to be good at

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 457, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12790
• Dae Jaweon: page 806, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1971, character 4
• Unihan data for U+64C5

Chinese

simp. and trad.		擅
2nd round simp.		𢩳

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 擅
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
皽	*tjaʀ, *tanʔ, *tjanʔ
担	*taːnʔ
胆	*daːn, *daːn
疸	*taːnʔ, *taːns
觛	*taːnʔ, *taːns, *daːnʔ
亶	*taːnʔ
嬗	*taːnʔ, *tʰaːn, *djans
笪	*taːnʔ, *taːns, *taːd
狚	*taːnʔ, *taːns, *taːd
旦	*taːns
鴠	*taːns
譠	*tʰaːn, *rteːn
坦	*tʰaːnʔ
但	*daːn, *daːnʔ, *daːns
檀	*daːn
壇	*daːn
儃	*daːn, *djan
驙	*daːn, *tan
袒	*daːnʔ, *rdeːns
襢	*daːnʔ, *tanʔ, *tans
繵	*daːnʔ
膻	*daːnʔ
澶	*daːns, *djan
邅	*tan, *danʔ, *dans
鱣	*tan
饘	*tjan, *tjanʔ
旜	*tjan
氈	*tjan
鸇	*tjan
顫	*tjans
蟺	*djanʔ
擅	*djans
羶	*hljan
呾	*taːd, *ʔraːd
怛	*taːd
妲	*taːd
靼	*taːd, *tjad
炟	*taːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *djans): semantic 手 (“hands”) + phonetic 亶 (OC *taːnʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shàn (shan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sin⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siān

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shàn
    • Wade–Giles: shan⁴
    • Yale: shàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shann
    • Palladius: шань (šanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sin⁶
    • Yale: sihn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sin⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: xin⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːn²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siān
    • Tâi-lô: siān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sien
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /siɛn²²/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /siɛn⁴¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɛn²²/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /siɛn³³/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɛn³³/

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• Middle Chinese: dzyenH

Rime
Character	擅
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	時戰切
Baxter	dzyenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑiᴇnH/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑiɛnH/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑjænH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑianH/
Li Rong	/ʑiɛnH/
Wang Li	/ʑĭɛnH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʑi̯ɛnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sin6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]a[n]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*djans/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	擅
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shàn
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyenH ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]a[n]-s/
English	act without authority
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	擅
Reading #	1/1
No.	2094
Phonetic component	旦
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	繕
Old Chinese	/*djans/

Definitions

擅

1. to hold all in one's hands; to monopolize
2. to own; to possess
3. to be good at
4. to do on one's own initiative; to do according to one's wishes

Compounds

• 不擅
• 專擅 / 专擅 (zhuānshàn)
• 擅作主張 / 擅作主张
• 擅作威福
• 擅便
• 擅入 (shànrù)
• 擅兵
• 擅國 / 擅国
• 擅場 / 擅场
• 擅專 / 擅专
• 擅改
• 擅權 / 擅权 (shànquán)
• 擅用
• 擅自 (shànzì)
• 擅自作主
• 擅變 / 擅变
• 擅長 / 擅长 (shàncháng)
• 擅離職守 / 擅离职守
• 攝威擅勢 / 摄威擅势
• 文擅彫龍 / 文擅雕龙
• 獨擅勝場 / 独擅胜场
• 能歌擅舞

Japanese

Kanji

擅

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ぜん (zen)
• Kan-on: せん (sen)
• Kun: ほしいまま (hoshiimama, 擅)

Compounds

• 擅権(せんけん) (senken)
• 擅恣(せんし) (senshi)
• 擅制(せんせい) (sensei)
• 擅断(せんだん) (sendan)
• 専擅(せんせん) (sensen)
• 独擅(どくせん) (dokusen)
  • 独擅場(どくせんじょう) (dokusenjō)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
擅
せん Hyōgai
kan'on

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sẽ̞ɴ]

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Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 擅 – see the following entry.

【縦ほしいまま】6 [adjective] selfish, at will [adjective] arbitrary Alternative spellings 恣, 欲しい儘, 欲しい侭, 肆

(This term, 擅, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

• “^▲擅”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

擅 • (cheon) (hangeul 천, revised cheon, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏn, Yale chen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

擅: Hán Nôm readings: chen, thiện

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