苮

苮 U+82EE, 苮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82EE ← 苭 [U+82ED] CJK Unified Ideographs 苯 → [U+82EF]

Translingual

Han character

苮 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿人山 (TOU), composition ⿱艹仙)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1024, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30805
• Dae Jaweon: page 1484, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3193, character 14
• Unihan data for U+82EE

Chinese

trad.		苮
simp. #		苮

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
山	*sreːn
疝	*sreːn, *sraːns
邖	*sreːn
汕	*sreːnʔ, *sraːns
訕	*sraːn, *sraːns
仙	*sen
秈	*sen
苮	*sen
屾	*srin

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiān (xian¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiān
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sian
    • Wade–Giles: hsien¹
    • Yale: syān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shian
    • Palladius: сянь (sjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: sjen

Rime
Character	苮
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	相然切
Baxter	sjen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/siɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/sjæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sian/
Li Rong	/siɛn/
Wang Li	/sĭɛn/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯ɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sin1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sen/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	苮
Reading #	1/1
No.	11062
Phonetic component	山
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	仙
Old Chinese	/*sen/

Definitions

苮

1. ^† a kind of grass which can be woven into mats