俴
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Translingual
Han character
俴 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人戈戈 (OII), four-corner 23253, composition ⿰亻戔)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 106, character 11
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 727
- Dae Jaweon: page 226, character 6
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 174, character 1
- Unihan data for U+4FF4
Chinese
| trad. | 俴 | |
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| simp. | 𠈙 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 俴 |
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 s05837 Transcribed ancient scripts  L16196 |
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References:
Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
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| Old Chinese | |
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| 殘 | *zlaːn, *zaːns |
| 戔 | *zlaːn |
| 帴 | *zlaːn, *saːns, *ʔslenʔ, *ʔsleːn, *sreːd |
| 虥 | *zreːn, *zreːn, *zreːnʔ, *zraːns |
| 盞 | *ʔsreːnʔ |
| 醆 | *ʔsreːnʔ, *ʔljenʔ |
| 琖 | *ʔsreːnʔ |
| 剗 | *sʰreːnʔ |
| 棧 | *zreːnʔ, *zraːns, *zrenʔ |
| 輚 | *zreːnʔ, *zraːns |
| 嶘 | *zreːnʔ |
| 錢 | *ʔslenʔ, *zlen |
| 俴 | *ʔslenʔ, *zlenʔ |
| 籛 | *ʔslenʔ, *ʔslens, *ʔsleːn |
| 淺 | *sʰlenʔ, *ʔsleːn |
| 濺 | *ʔsens, *ʔseːn |
| 踐 | *zlenʔ |
| 諓 | *zlenʔ, *zlens |
| 餞 | *zlenʔ, *zlens |
| 賤 | *zlens |
| 綫 | *slens |
| 箋 | *ʔsleːn |
| 牋 | *ʔsleːn |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄢˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: jiàn
- Wade–Giles: chien4
- Yale: jyàn
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiann
- Palladius: цзянь (czjanʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: cin5 / zin1
- Yale: chíhn / jīn
- Cantonese Pinyin: tsin5 / dzin1
- Guangdong Romanization: qin5 / jin1
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰiːn¹³/, /t͡siːn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Southern Min
- Middle Chinese: dzjenX, tsjenX
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*eʔ/
- (Zhengzhang): /*ʔslenʔ/, /*zlenʔ/
Definitions
俴
- thin
- (obsolete) unarmored
- (obsolete) armoured with thin, scale-like metal plates
- 俴駟孔羣 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- jiànsì kǒng qún
- His mail-covered team moves in great harmony
𠈙驷孔羣 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]- 俴駟，四馬皆以淺薄之金為甲。欲其輕而易於馬之旋習也。 [MSC, trad.]
- From: 朱熹 Zhu Xi,《詩經集傳》Collected Commentaries on the Classic of Poetry, volume 4
- Jiànsì, sìmǎ jiē yǐ qiǎnbó zhī jīn wèi jiǎ. Yù qí qīng ér yì yú mǎ zhī xuán xí yě.
- Jiànsì ("俴駟"): all four horses are armored by thin metal plates; horses need to be light as well as easily steered and trained.
𠈙驷，四马皆以浅薄之金为甲。欲其轻而易于马之旋习也。 [MSC, simp.]
Usage notes
Berthold Laufer (1913) objects to interpretations of 俴／𠈙 (jiàn) (and 介 (jiè) elsewhere) as being armored with metal plates; instead, he proposes that the horses were covered in plain hide armor or hide scale armor, as worn by Zhou soldiers.[1]
References
- ^ Laufer, Berthold (1913). Notes on Turquois in the East, Volume 13, Issues 1–2. p. 306, fn. 1
Japanese
Kanji
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
俴 (eum 천 (cheon))
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Vietnamese
Han character
俴: Hán Nôm readings: kiến, tiễn
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