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U+7B4D, 筍
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B4D

[U+7B4C]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+7B4E]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 118, +6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹心日 (HPA) or 難竹心日 (XHPA), four-corner 88627, composition 𥫗)

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 883, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25997
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1312, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2969, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+7B4D

Chinese[edit]

Glyph origin[edit]

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *sqʰʷinʔ) : semantic (bamboo) + phonetic (OC *sɢʷin).

Etymology 1[edit]

trad. /
simp.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation[edit]



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /suən²¹⁴/
Harbin /suən²¹³/
Tianjin /suən¹³/
Jinan /ɕyẽ⁵⁵/
Qingdao /syə̃⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /syn⁵³/
Xi'an /suẽ⁵³/
Xining /suə̃⁵³/
Yinchuan /suŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /sũn⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /suŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /sən⁴²/
Chengdu /sən⁵³/
Guiyang /sen⁴²/
Kunming /suə̃⁵³/
Nanjing /sun²¹²/
Hefei /sən⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /suəŋ⁵³/
Pingyao /suŋ⁵³/
Hohhot /sũŋ⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /səŋ³⁵/
Suzhou /sən⁵¹/
Hangzhou /sz̩ʷen⁵³/
Wenzhou /ɕoŋ³⁵/
Hui Shexian /sʌ̃³⁵/
Tunxi /sin³¹/
Xiang Changsha /sən⁴¹/
Xiangtan /dən⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /sun²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /sun³¹/
Taoyuan /sun³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /søn³⁵/
Nanning /ɬɐn³⁵/
/ɬyn³⁵/
Hong Kong /søn³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /sun⁵³/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /suŋ³²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /sœyŋ²¹/
Shantou (Teochew) /suŋ⁵³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /tun²¹³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (47)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter swinX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/siuɪnX/
Pan
Wuyun
/sʷinX/
Shao
Rongfen
/sjuenX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/swinX/
Li
Rong
/siuĕnX/
Wang
Li
/sĭuĕnX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/si̯uĕnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xǔn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
seon2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
sǔn
Middle
Chinese
‹ swinX ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-qʷi[n]ʔ/
English bamboo sprouts

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 16392
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sqʰʷinʔ/

Definitions[edit]

  1. bamboo shoot
  2. (literary, or in compounds) tender; young
  3. Alternative form of (sǔn, horizontal beam on which bells hang)
Synonyms[edit]
  • (bamboo shoot):

Compounds[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

trad. /
simp.
alternative forms

From (seon6, “smooth; successful”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Definitions[edit]

  1. (Cantonese, slang) very good; worth it; inexpensive; less costly than its actual value

Compounds[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. bamboo shoot

Readings[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

(sun) (hangeul , revised sun, McCune–Reischauer sun, Yale swun)

  1. sprout, shoot

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

: Hán Nôm readings: duẫn, sũn, hũn

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