顓

See also: 颛

顓 U+9853, 顓 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9853 ← 顒 [U+9852] CJK Unified Ideographs 顔 → [U+9854]

Translingual

Han character

顓 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+9, 18 strokes, cangjie input 山月一月金 (UBMBC), four-corner 2128₆, composition ⿰耑頁)

1. good, honest
2. simple
3. respectful
4. surname (See Zhuanxu, there is a Village called 顓褚寺／颛褚寺 (Zhuānchǔsì) in Cang County, Hebei Province. All of the residents are surnamed Zhuan. see http://www.zhuan.org)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1407, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43600
• Dae Jaweon: page 1925, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4382, character 6
• Unihan data for U+9853

Chinese

trad.		顓
simp.		颛

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 顓
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
揣	*toːlʔ, *sʰrolʔ
褍	*toːlʔ, *toːn
惴	*tjols
圌	*djol, *djon
篅	*djol, *djon
瑞	*djols
端	*toːn
剬	*toːn, *tjonʔ
偳	*toːn, *tʰoːn
鍴	*toːn
耑	*toːn
踹	*toːns, *djonʔ
湍	*tʰoːn, *tjon
煓	*tʰoːn
貒	*tʰoːn, *tʰoːns
諯	*stʰons, *tjon, *tʰjons, *djon
顓	*tjon
喘	*tʰjonʔ
遄	*djon
輲	*djon
椯	*djon
歂	*djon, *djonʔ
腨	*djonʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhuān (zhuan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyun¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhuān
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhuan
    • Wade–Giles: chuan¹
    • Yale: jwān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juan
    • Palladius: чжуань (čžuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯än⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zyun¹
    • Yale: jyūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzyn¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: jun¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡syːn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsywen

Rime
Character	顓
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	仙 (78)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	職緣切
Baxter	tsywen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiuᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕʷiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕjuæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cwian/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiuɛn/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭwɛn/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯wɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhuān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zyun1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjon/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	顓
Reading #	1/1
No.	2513
Phonetic component	耑
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	專
Old Chinese	/*tjon/

Definitions

顓

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Compounds

• 顓兵／颛兵
• 顓制／颛制
• 顓民／颛民
• 顓臾／颛臾 (Zhuānyú)
• 顓蒙／颛蒙
• 顓門／颛门
• 顓頊／颛顼
• 顓顓／颛颛

 

Japanese

Kanji

顓

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. good
2. honest
3. simple
4. respectful

Readings

• On (unclassified): せん (sen)

Korean

Hanja

顓 • (jeon) (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune–Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)

1. honest
2. stupid

Vietnamese

Han character

顓: Hán Nôm readings: chuyên

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