繕

See also: 缮

繕 U+7E55, 繕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E55 ← 織 [U+7E54] CJK Unified Ideographs 繖 → [U+7E56]

Translingual

Han character

繕 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+12, 18 strokes, Cangjie input 女火廿土口 (VFTGR) or 女火廿廿口 (VFTTR), four-corner 2896₁, composition ⿰糹善)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 938, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27893
• Dae Jaweon: page 1377, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3454, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7E55

Chinese

trad.		繕
simp.		缮

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
橏	*tjenʔ
嫸	*tjenʔ
善	*ɡjenʔ
譱	*ɡjenʔ
蟮	*djanʔ
鱔	*djanʔ
僐	*djenʔ, *djens
鄯	*djenʔ, *djens
墡	*djenʔ
磰	*djenʔ
繕	*ɡjens
膳	*djens
饍	*djens

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡjens): semantic 糸 (“thread; textile”) + phonetic 善 (OC *ɡjenʔ, “good”). Also Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): to repair; to make good.

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *glan (“to repair”), cognate to Tibetan གླན་པ (glan pa, “to patch; to mend”) and related forms (Gong 1995; STEDT).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shàn (shan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sin⁶
• Eastern Min (BUC): siêng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): seng⁵
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): siān

  (Teochew, Peng'im): siang⁶

• Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁶zoe / ⁶ze / ²zeen / ⁶zie
• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): shenn⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shàn
    • Wade–Giles: shan⁴
    • Yale: shàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shann
    • Palladius: шань (šanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sin⁶
    • Yale: sihn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sin⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: xin⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːn²²/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: siêng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siɛŋ²⁴²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: seng⁵
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: sēng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬɛŋ¹¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: seng⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬɛŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siān
    • Tâi-lô: siān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sien
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /siɛn²²/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /siɛn⁴¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɛn²²/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /siɛn³³/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɛn³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: siang⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: siăng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siaŋ³⁵/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai, Chongming, Suzhou, Kunshan, Changzhou, Haiyan)
    • Wugniu: ⁶zoe
    • MiniDict: zoe^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³zoe
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zø²³/
    • Sinological IPA (Chongming): /szø³¹³/
    • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /zø²³¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Kunshan): /zø²¹³/
    • Sinological IPA (Changzhou): /zɵ²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Haiyan): /zə²¹³/
  • (Northern: Songjiang, Yixing, Tongxiang)
    • Wugniu: ⁶ze
    • Sinological IPA (Songjiang): /ze¹³/
    • Sinological IPA (Yixing): /zə²¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Tongxiang): /zɛ¹¹³/
  • (Northern: Cixi)
    • Wugniu: ²zeen
    • Sinological IPA (Cixi): /zẽ¹⁴/
  • (Northern: Jiading)
    • Wugniu: ⁶zie
    • MiniDict: zie^去
    • Sinological IPA (Jiading): /zɪ¹³/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: shenn⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key) (old-style): /ʂə̃⁴⁵/
    • Sinological IPA ^(key) (new-style): /sə̃⁴⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: dzyenH

Rime
Character	繕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	時戰切
Baxter	dzyenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑiᴇnH/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑiɛnH/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑjænH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑianH/
Li Rong	/ʑiɛnH/
Wang Li	/ʑĭɛnH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʑi̯ɛnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sin6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]e[n]ʔ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡjens/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	繕
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shàn
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyenH ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]e[n]ʔ-s/
English	(make good:) repair
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	繕
Reading #	1/1
No.	11092
Phonetic component	善
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	繕
Old Chinese	/*ɡjens/

Definitions

繕

1. to repair; to mend
2. to copy neatly; to transcribe
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to prepare; to renovate
4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to keep; to maintain
5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) firm; resolute

Compounds

• 修繕 / 修缮 (xiūshàn)
• 營繕 / 营缮
• 繕寫 / 缮写 (shànxiě)
• 繕甲厲兵 / 缮甲厉兵
• 繕甲治兵 / 缮甲治兵

References

• “繕”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

繕

(Jōyō kanji)

1. darning
2. repair

Readings

• Go-on: ぜん (zen, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: せん (sen)
• Kun: つくろう (tsukurou, 繕う, Jōyō)^{←つくろふ (tukurofu, 繕ふ, historical)}

Compounds

• 繕(ぜん)性(さい) (zensai)
• 繕(ぜん)写(しゃ) (zensha)
• 繕(ぜん)修(しゅう) (zenshū)
• 繕(ぜん)治(ち) (zenchi)
• 営(えい)繕(ぜん) (eizen)
• 修(しゅう)繕(ぜん) (shūzen)
• 葺(しゅう)繕(ぜん) (shūzen)
• 補(ほ)繕(ぜん) (hozen)
• 衣紋(えもん)を繕(つくろ)う (emon o tsukurou)
• 引(ひ)き繕(つくろ)う (hikitsukurou)
• 羽(は)繕(づくろ)い (hazukuroi)
• 見(み)繕(つくろ)う (mitsukurou)
• 言(い)い繕(つくろ)う (ītsukurou)
• 取(と)り繕(つくろ)う (toritsukurou)
• 身(み)繕(づくろ)い (mizukuroi)
• 声(こわ)繕(づくろ)い (kowazukuroi)
• 掻(か)い繕(つくろ)う (kaitsukurou)

Korean

Hanja

繕 (eum 선 (seon))

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Vietnamese

Han character

繕: Hán Việt readings: thiện

1. chữ Hán form of thiện (“repair, transcribe neatly”)