纔

Translingual

Han character

纔 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+17, 23 strokes, cangjie input 女火弓口戈 (VFNRI), four-corner 2791₃, composition ⿰糹毚)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 943, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28070
• Dae Jaweon: page 1383, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3469, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7E94

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Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
纔	*zlɯː, *zlɯːs, *sraːm
讒	*zrɯːm, *zraːms
饞	*zrɯːm
毚	*zrɯːm, *zraːm
欃	*zrɯːm, *zraːms
攙	*zrɯːm, *sʰraːm
儳	*zrɯːm, *zrɯːms, *sʰraːms
酁	*zrɯːm
瀺	*zrɯːmʔ
嚵	*sʰraːms, *zraːm, *zlamʔ
巉	*zraːm, *zraːmʔ
劖	*zraːm
艬	*zraːm, *zraːms
鑱	*zraːm, *zraːms

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *zlɯː, *zlɯːs, *sraːm) : semantic 糸 + phonetic 毚 (OC *zrɯːm, *zraːm).

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 纔 – see 才 (“just; only”). (This character is a variant traditional form of 才).

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		纔

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shān (shan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄢ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shān
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shan
    • Wade–Giles: shan¹
    • Yale: shān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shan
    • Palladius: шань (šanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂän⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: sraem

Rime
Character	纔
Reading #	2/3
Initial (聲)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	銜 (149)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	所銜切
Baxter	sraem
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʃˠam/
Pan Wuyun	/ʃᵚam/
Shao Rongfen	/ʃam/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʂaɨm/
Li Rong	/ʃam/
Wang Li	/ʃam/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʂam/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	saam1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sraːm/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	纔
Reading #	3/3
No.	1244
Phonetic component	毚
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	衫
Old Chinese	/*sraːm/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 纔

1. ^† reddish black

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Japanese

Kanji

纔

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): さん (san), さい (sai)
• Kun: わずか (wazuka)

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Korean

Hanja

纔 • (jae) (hangeul 재, revised jae, McCune–Reischauer chae, Yale cay)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 纔 (tài)

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