燦燦

Chinese

		glorious; bright; brilliant glorious; bright; brilliant; lustrous; resplendent	glorious; bright; brilliant glorious; bright; brilliant; lustrous; resplendent
trad. (燦燦)		燦	燦
simp. (灿灿)		灿	灿

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): càncàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄢˋ ㄘㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): caan³ caan³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: càncàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄢˋ ㄘㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: càncàn
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻan⁴-tsʻan⁴
    • Yale: tsàn-tsàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsanntsann
    • Palladius: цаньцань (canʹcanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰän⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡sʰän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: caan³ caan³
    • Yale: chaan chaan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsaan³ tsaan³
    • Guangdong Romanization: can³ can³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaːn³³ t͡sʰaːn³³/

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• Middle Chinese: tshanH tshanH

Rime
Character	燦
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	寒 (61)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	蒼案切
Baxter	tshanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰɑnH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰɑnH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰɑnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰanH/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰɑnH/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰɑnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	càn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	caan3

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) 燦燦

1. (ideophonic) glistening; lustrous

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (燦燦):

• → Japanese: 燦々(さんさん) (sansan)
• → Korean: 찬찬(燦燦) (chanchan)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
燦	燦
さん Jinmeiyō	さん Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

Adjective

燦(さん)燦(さん) • (sansan) ^†-tari (adnominal 燦(さん)燦(さん)とした (sansan to shita) or 燦(さん)燦(さん)たる (sansan taru), adverbial 燦(さん)燦(さん)と (sansan to) or 燦(さん)燦(さん)として (sansan to shite))

1. Alternative spelling of 燦々