筍

See also: 笋

Translingual

Han character

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

References

• 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

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Chinese

trad.		筍
simp.		笋

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
枃	*skins
笉	*skʰinʔ
郇	*ɡʷreːn, *sqʰʷin
絢	*qʰʷiːns
眴	*qʰʷiːns, *ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷin, *qʰʷjins, *ŋʷjin
盷	*ɡʷiːn
訇	*ɡʷiːn, *qʰʷreːŋ
迿	*ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷins
姰	*ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷin
畇	*l'iːŋ, *sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin, *ɢʷin
荀	*sqʰʷin
詢	*sqʰʷin
洵	*sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin
恂	*sqʰʷin
峋	*sqʰʷin
珣	*sqʰʷin
槆	*sqʰʷin
筍	*sqʰʷinʔ
箰	*sqʰʷinʔ
旬	*sɢʷin
殉	*sɢʷins
徇	*sɢʷins
侚	*sɢʷins
均	*kʷin
鈞	*kʷin
袀	*kʷin
汮	*kʷin, *kʷrin
呁	*kʷins
筠	*ɡʷin
荺	*ɢʷin, *ɡʷinʔ
匀	*ɢʷin
韵	*ɢʷins
輷	*qʰʷreːŋ, *qʰʷreːŋs
揈	*qʰʷreːŋ
鍧	*qʰʷreːŋ
渹	*qʰʷreːŋ
赹	*ɡʷeŋ
憌	*ɡʷeŋ
惸	*ɡʷeŋ
咰	*sqʰʷrid

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sǔn (sun³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seon²
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sún

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sung²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sǔn
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sǔn
    • Wade–Giles: sun³
    • Yale: swǔn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: soen
    • Palladius: сунь (sunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su̯ən²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: seon²
    • Yale: séun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soen²
    • Guangdong Romanization: sên²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵn³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sún
    • Tâi-lô: sún
    • Phofsit Daibuun: suon
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sun⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sun⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sun⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sun⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sun⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: sung²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: súng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /suŋ⁵²/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 筍
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/

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• Middle Chinese: swinX

Rime
Character	筍
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	思尹切
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

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-qʷi[n]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sqʰʷinʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	筍
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	筍
Reading #	1/1
No.	16392
Phonetic component	匀
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	筍
Old Chinese	/*sqʰʷinʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 筍

1. bamboo shoot
2. (Cantonese, slang) very good; get something without paying its actual value.

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Japanese

Kanji

筍

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: しゅん (shun)^{←しゆん (syun, historical)}
• Kan-on: しゅん (shun)^{←しゆん (syun, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: じゅん (jun)^{←じゆん (zyun, historical)}
• Kun: たけのこ (takenoko, 筍)

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Korean

Hanja

筍 • (sun) (hangeul 순, revised sun, McCune–Reischauer sun, Yale swun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 筍 (duẩn)

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