旃

Translingual

Han character

旃 (Kangxi radical 70, 方+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜尸人月卜 (YSOBY), four-corner 0824₇, composition ⿸⿰方𠂉丹)

1. silk banner with bent pole

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 482, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13640
• Dae Jaweon: page 844, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2178, character 4
• Unihan data for U+65C3

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		旃

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
丹	*taːn
旃	*tjan
栴	*tjan

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tjan) : semantic 㫃 + phonetic 丹 (OC *taːn)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhān (zhan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zin¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhān
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhan
    • Wade–Giles: chan¹
    • Yale: jān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jan
    • Palladius: чжань (čžanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zin¹
    • Yale: jīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzin¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: jin¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siːn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyen

Rime
Character	旃
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	諸延切
Baxter	tsyen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕjæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cian/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiɛn/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭɛn/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zin1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjan/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	旃
Reading #	1/1
No.	1981
Phonetic component	丹
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	𩜾
Old Chinese	/*tjan/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

旃

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: せん (sen)
• Kan-on: せん (sen)
• Kun: はた (hata)

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Korean

Hanja

旃 • (jeon) (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune–Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)

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