癬

See also: 癣

癬 U+766C, 癬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-766C ← 癫 [U+766B] CJK Unified Ideographs 癭 → [U+766D]

Translingual

Han character

癬 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+17, 22 strokes, cangjie input 大弓火手 (KNFQ), four-corner 0015₁, composition ⿸疒鮮)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 783, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22629
• Dae Jaweon: page 1192, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2704, character 3
• Unihan data for U+766C

Chinese

trad.		癬
simp.		癣
2nd round simp.		㾌
alternative forms		㿅 㾌

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
鮮	*sen, *senʔ, *sens
廯	*sen, *senʔ
癬	*senʔ
蘚	*senʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *senʔ) : semantic 疒 + phonetic 鮮 (OC *sen, *senʔ, *sens).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xuǎn, xiǎn

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄢˇ, ㄒㄧㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sin²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sién
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sián / chhóaⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland; variant in Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xuǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syuǎn
    • Wade–Giles: hsüan³
    • Yale: sywǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheuan
    • Palladius: сюань (sjuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy̯ɛn²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan; variant in Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siǎn
    • Wade–Giles: hsien³
    • Yale: syǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shean
    • Palladius: сянь (sjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sin²
    • Yale: sín
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sin²
    • Guangdong Romanization: xin²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːn³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sién
    • Hakka Romanization System: xien`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: xian³
    • Sinological IPA: /si̯en³¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sián
    • Tâi-lô: sián
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siern
    • IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /siɛn⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɛn⁴¹/
    • IPA (Singapore): /siɛn⁴²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siɛn⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhóaⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tshuánn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhvoar
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰuã⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei, Xiamen): /t͡sʰuã⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰuã⁴¹/

Note:

• sián - literary;
• chhóaⁿ - vernacular.

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 癬
Mandarin	Beijing	/ɕyan²¹⁴/
	Harbin	/ɕyan²¹³/
	Tianjin	/ɕyan¹³/
	Jinan	/ɕyã⁵⁵/
	Qingdao	/ɕyã⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/syan⁵³/
	Xi'an	/ɕiã⁵³/
	Xining	/ɕyã⁵³/
	Yinchuan	/ɕyan⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/ɕyɛ̃n⁴⁴²/
	Ürümqi	/ɕyan⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/ɕiɛn⁴²/
	Chengdu	/ɕyan⁵³/
	Guiyang	/ɕian⁴²/
	Kunming	/ɕiɛ̃⁵³/
	Nanjing	/syen²¹²/ /sien²¹²/
	Hefei	/ɕyĩ²⁴/
Jin	Taiyuan	/ɕye⁵³/
	Pingyao
	Hohhot	/ɕie⁵³/
Wu	Shanghai	/ɕi³⁵/
	Suzhou	/siɪ⁵¹/
	Hangzhou	/ɕiẽ̞⁵³/
	Wenzhou	/ɕi³⁵/
Hui	Shexian	/ɕye³⁵/
	Tunxi	/siɛ³¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/siẽ⁴¹/
	Xiangtan	/siẽ⁴²/
Gan	Nanchang	/ɕyɵn²¹³/
Hakka	Meixian	/sien³¹/
	Taoyuan	/sien³¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/sin³⁵/
	Nanning	/ɬyn³⁵/
	Hong Kong	/sin³⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/sian⁵³/ /t͡sʰuã⁵³/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/t͡sʰiaŋ³²/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/t͡sʰyiŋ²¹/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/siaŋ⁵³/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/sin²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: sjenX

Rime
Character	癬
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	息淺切
Baxter	sjenX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siᴇnX/
Pan Wuyun	/siɛnX/
Shao Rongfen	/sjænX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sianX/
Li Rong	/siɛnX/
Wang Li	/sĭɛnX/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯ɛnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sin2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]arʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*senʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	癬
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xuǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ sjenX ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]arʔ/
English	ringworm
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	癬
Reading #	1/1
No.	13493
Phonetic component	鮮
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	獮
Old Chinese	/*senʔ/

Definitions

癬

1. (dermatology, pathology) ringworm; tinea

Compounds

• 手癬／手癣 (shǒuxuǎn)
• 松皮癬／松皮癣
• 牛皮癬／牛皮癣 (niúpíxuǎn)
• 疥癬／疥癣 (jièxuǎn)
• 疥癬蟲／疥癣虫
• 癬疥／癣疥 (xuǎnjiè)
• 白癬／白癣 (báixuǎn)
• 股癬／股癣 (gǔxuǎn)
• 腳癬／脚癣 (jiǎoxuǎn)
• 花斑癬／花斑癣 (huābānxuǎn)
• 足癬／足癣 (zúxuǎn)
• 錢兒癬／钱儿癣
• 頑癬／顽癣 (wánxuǎn)
• 頭癬／头癣 (tóuxuǎn)
• 體癬／体癣 (tǐxuǎn)
• 髮癬／发癣
• 魚鱗癬／鱼鳞癣 (yúlínxuǎn)
• 黃癬／黄癣 (huángxuǎn)

 

Japanese

Kanji

癬

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

１．Ringworm

Readings

• Go-on: せん (sen)
• Kan-on: せん (sen)

Compounds

• 足白癬(あしはくせん) (ashi hakusen)

Korean

Hanja

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

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