專

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See also: 専 and 尃
專 U+5C08, 專
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C08
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 尉 →

Translingual

Traditional 專
Shinjitai 専
Simplified 专

Han character

專 (Kangxi radical 41, 寸+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 十戈木戈 (JIDI), four-corner 50343, composition ⿳⿻一申⿰㇀丶寸 or ⿱⿻一⿻虫一寸)

Descendants

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 295, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7439
  • Dae Jaweon: page 584, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 507, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5C08

Chinese

trad. 專
simp. 专
alternative forms 専
耑
剸／𰄞
叀
𠧡

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 專
Shang Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (專) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
竱 *toːn, *tjonʔ
團 *doːn
摶 *doːn, *doːn, *donʔ
篿 *doːn, *tjon
慱 *doːn
剸 *doːn, *tjonʔ, *tjons
鄟 *doːn, *tjon, *djonʔ
漙 *doːn
鷒 *doːn, *tjon
轉 *tonʔ, *tons
傳 *tons, *don, *dons
囀 *tons
縳 *donʔ, *dons
專 *tjon
磚 *tjon
甎 *tjon
塼 *tjon
嫥 *tjon
膞 *tjon, *tjonʔ, *djonʔ
鱄 *tjon, *tjonʔ
蓴 *djun

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tjon) : phonetic 叀 (, “spindle”) + semantic 又 (“hand”) – a hand turning a spindle or spinning wheel. Originally also written 叀.

The 又 was later replaced by related 寸.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • zuang1 - Shantou;
  • zuêng1- Chaozhou.
Rime
Character 專
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
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 專
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zhuān
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsywen ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ton/
English exclusively

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 專
Reading # 1/1
No. 17683
Phonetic
component 		專
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		專
Old
Chinese 		/*tjon/

Definitions

專

  1. to monopolize; to take sole possession
  2. specific; special; exclusive
  3. expert; focused; concentrated
  4. exclusively; specially
  5. (obsolete) spindle; spinning wheel
  6. a surname: Zhuan

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (專):
  • → Vietnamese: chuyên (專)

References

Japanese

Shinjitai

専

Kyūjitai

專

Kanji

專

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 専)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

專: Hán Việt readings: chuyên
專: Nôm readings: choen, choèn, chuyến

  1. chữ Hán form of chuyên (“specific; expertise”).

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Génibrel (1898).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bonet (1899).
  3. ^ Nguyễn (1974).
  4. ^ Trần (1999).
  5. ^ Nguyễn et al. (2009).
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Hồ (1976).
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