繕

See also: 缮

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

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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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shàn (shan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sin⁶

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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/

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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/
Bernard 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

(deprecated template usage) 繕

1. to repair; to mend
2. to copy neatly; to transcribe
3. ^† to prepare; to renovate
4. ^† to keep; to maintain
5. ^† firm; resolute

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Japanese

Kanji

繕

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ぜん (zen, Jōyō); せん (sen)
• Kun: つくろう (tsukurou, 繕う, Jōyō)

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Korean

Hanja

繕 • (seon) (hangeul 선, revised seon, McCune–Reischauer sŏn, Yale sen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

繕 (thiện)

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