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U+53C0, 叀
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53C0

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 28, +6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 十田戈 (JWI), composition 𤰔)

  1. spindle
  2. hang

Derived characters

Descendants

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 164, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3083
  • Dae Jaweon: page 372, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 386, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+53C0

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Pictogram (象形) – a spindle. The original form of and .

Pronunciation 1



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (25)
Final () (78)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter dzywenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡ʑiuᴇnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/d͡ʑʷiɛnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡ʑjuænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/d͡ʑwianH/
Li
Rong
/ʑiuɛnH/
Wang
Li
/ʑĭwɛnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʑi̯wɛnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shuàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
syun6

Definitions

  1. (obsolete) spindle; spinning wheel
  2. (obsolete) to hang; to suspend
  3. Original form of (zhuān).

Pronunciation 2



BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
huì
Middle
Chinese
‹ hwejH ›
Old
Chinese
/*ɢʷˁj-s/
English (copula)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Definitions

  1. (obsolete, Classical) meaningless sentence-initial particle
  2. Original form of (huì).

References

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. spool used to collect spun thread
  2. generally
  3. wholly

Readings

  • On (unclassified): せん (sen)ぜん (zen)
  • Kun: つつしむ (tsutsushimu, 叀む)かける (kakeru, 叀ける)

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. only
  2. wholly