簢

Translingual

Han character

簢 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹日弓大 (HANK), four-corner 8822₇, composition ⿱𥫗閔)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 899, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26521
• Dae Jaweon: page 1325, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3018, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7C22

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Chinese

trad.		簢
simp.		𫂃
alternative forms		𥴲 𥵴

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
憫	*mrɯnʔ
閔	*mrɯnʔ
潣	*mrɯnʔ, *mɯːlʔ
簢	*mrɯnʔ
燘	*mɯːlʔ, *hmɯːlʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mrɯnʔ) : semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 閔 (OC *mrɯnʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mǐn (min³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mǐn
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mǐn
    • Wade–Giles: min³
    • Yale: mǐn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: miin
    • Palladius: минь (minʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /min²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: man⁵
    • Yale: máhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: man⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: men⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐn¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: minX

Rime
Character	簢
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	眞 (44)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	眉殞切
Baxter	minX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠiɪnX/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚinX/
Shao Rongfen	/mienX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mjinX/
Li Rong	/mjĕnX/
Wang Li	/mǐĕnX/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯ĕnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mǐn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	man5

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*mrɯnʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	簢
Reading #	1/1
No.	9156
Phonetic component	閔
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	愍
Old Chinese	/*mrɯnʔ/
Notes	見爾雅

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 簢

1. ^† a kind of bamboo that can be used for making mats