濺

See also: 溅

Translingual

Han character

濺 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+15, 18 strokes, cangjie input 水月金戈 (EBCI), four-corner 3315₃, composition ⿰氵賤)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 657, character 38
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18557
• Dae Jaweon: page 1068, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1778, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6FFA

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Chinese

trad.		濺
simp.		溅

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
殘	*zlaːn, *zaːns
戔	*zlaːn
帴	*zlaːn, *saːns, *ʔslenʔ, *ʔsleːn, *sreːd
虥	*zreːn, *zreːn, *zreːnʔ, *zraːns
盞	*ʔsreːnʔ
醆	*ʔsreːnʔ, *ʔljenʔ
琖	*ʔsreːnʔ
剗	*sʰreːnʔ
棧	*zreːnʔ, *zraːns, *zrenʔ
輚	*zreːnʔ, *zraːns
嶘	*zreːnʔ
錢	*ʔslenʔ, *zlen
俴	*ʔslenʔ, *zlenʔ
籛	*ʔslenʔ, *ʔslens, *ʔsleːn
淺	*sʰlenʔ, *ʔsleːn
濺	*ʔsens, *ʔseːn
踐	*zlenʔ
諓	*zlenʔ, *zlens
餞	*zlenʔ, *zlens
賤	*zlens
綫	*slens
箋	*ʔsleːn
牋	*ʔsleːn

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔsens, *ʔseːn) : semantic 水 (“walk”) + phonetic 賤 (OC *zlens).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiàn, zàn, jiān (jian⁴, zan⁴, jian¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄢˋ, ㄗㄢˋ, ㄐㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zin³ / zin¹ / cin² / cin³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chōaⁿ / chiān

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jiàn
    • Wade–Giles: chien⁴
    • Yale: jyàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiann
    • Palladius: цзянь (czjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zàn
    • Wade–Giles: tsan⁴
    • Yale: dzàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzann
    • Palladius: цзань (czanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sän⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiān
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jian
    • Wade–Giles: chien¹
    • Yale: jyān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jian
    • Palladius: цзянь (czjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zin³ / zin¹ / cin² / cin³
    • Yale: jin / jīn / chín / chin
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzin³ / dzin¹ / tsin² / tsin³
    • Guangdong Romanization: jin³ / jin¹ / qin² / qin³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siːn³³/, /t͡siːn⁵⁵/, /t͡sʰiːn³⁵/, /t͡sʰiːn³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chōaⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tsuānn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zvoa
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡suã⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡suã²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡suã³³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiān
    • Tâi-lô: tsiān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cien
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡siɛn²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siɛn⁴¹/

Note:

• chōaⁿ - vernacular;
• chiān - literary.

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• Middle Chinese: tsen, tsjenH

Rime
Character	濺	濺
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	精 (13)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	先 (85)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	III
Fanqie	則前切	子賤切
Baxter	tsen	tsjenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sen/	/t͡siᴇnH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sen/	/t͡siɛnH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sɛn/	/t͡sjænH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sɛn/	/t͡sianH/
Li Rong	/t͡sen/	/t͡siɛnH/
Wang Li	/t͡sien/	/t͡sĭɛnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sien/	/t͡si̯ɛnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiān	jiàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zin1	zin3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts][a][n]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsens/, /*ʔseːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	濺
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiàn
Middle Chinese	‹ tsjenH ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts][a][n]-s/
English	splatter with water
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	濺	濺
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	6002	6019
Phonetic component	戔	戔
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	箭	箋
Old Chinese	/*ʔsens/	/*ʔseːn/
Notes	見史記

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 濺

1. sprinkle, spray
2. spill, splash

Compounds

Usage notes

• This character is used in the Poem of Mulan to represent the cry of the Yellow River as Mulan departs. In the version published in The Flowering Plum and the Palace Lady: Interpretations of Chinese Poetry, by Han H. Frankel, Yale University Press (1976), this is transcribed as tsien-tsien.

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Japanese

Kanji

濺

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: せん (sen)
• Kan-on: せん (sen)
• Kun: そそぐ (sosogu, 濺ぐ)

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Korean

Hanja

濺 • (cheon) (hangeul 천)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 濺 (tiên, tiễn)

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