簪

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簪 U+7C2A, 簪
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7C2A
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 簫 →

Translingual

Han character

簪 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹一山日 (HMUA), four-corner 88601, composition ⿱𥫗朁)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 900, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26558
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1326, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3014, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+7C2A

Chinese

trad. 簪
simp. # 簪
alternative forms
兂
簮
篸／𥮾
𥯓
𦻳
兂
簮
篸／𥮾
𥯓
𦻳
𥸢
𬖂
𮆪
 

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 簪
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (兓) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
簪 *ʔsɯːm, *ʔsrɯm
撍 *ʔsluːm, *ʔsluːmʔ, *ʔsluːms, *ʔsrum
鐕 *ʔsluːm
憯 *sʰluːmʔ, *sʰlɯːmʔ
噆 *sʰluːmʔ, *ʔsluːb
朁 *sʰlɯːmʔ, *zlam
蠶 *zluːm
蚕 *zluːm, *hl'iːnʔ
糣 *sluːmʔ
熸 *ʔslom
鬵 *zlam, *zɯm, *ljɯm
灊 *zlam, *zɯm, *ljɯm
潛 *zlom, *zloms
僭 *ʔslɯːms
兓 *sl'ɯm
嶜 *zlum
兂 *ʔsrɯm
譖 *ʔsrums

Etymology

Compare perhaps 針 (OC *kjum, *kjums, “needle”) (STEDT).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • cham/chiam - vernacular;
  • chim - literary.
Rime
Character 簪 簪
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 莊 (18) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 侵 (140) 覃 (159)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III I
Fanqie 側吟切 作含切
Baxter tsrim tsom
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ʃˠiɪm/ /t͡sʌm/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʈ͡ʂᵚim/ /t͡səm/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ʃiem/ /t͡sɒm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʈ͡ʂjim/ /t͡səm/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ʃjəm/ /t͡sᴀm/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ʃĭĕm/ /t͡sɒm/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ʈ͡ʂi̯əm/ /t͡săm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhēn zān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zam1 zaam1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 簪 簪
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zān zān
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsom › ‹ tsrim ›
Old
Chinese 		/*Cə.tsˁm/ /*tsrm/
English hairpin hairpin

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 簪 簪
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 6694 6721
Phonetic
component 		兓 兓
Rime
group 		侵 侵
Rime
subdivision 		1 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		簪 旡
Old
Chinese 		/*ʔsɯːm/ /*ʔsrɯm/
Notes 說文同兂俗體

Definitions

簪

  1. hairpin; clasp
  2. to wear in one's hair

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

簪

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. ornamental hairpin

Readings

Etymology

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簪 (kanzashi): A 舞子 (maiko, “apprentice geisha”) with the willow-themed kanzashi for the month of June.
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Kanji in this term
簪
かんざし
Hyōgai
Alternative spellings
髪挿
鈿
釵

/kamusaɕi/ → /kanzaɕi/

Originally a compound of 髪 (kamu, “hair, hair of the head”, Old Japanese combining form) +‎ 挿し (sashi, “sticker-through (something that sticks through)”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 挿す sasu “to stick through, to insert”).[1][2] The sashi changes to zashi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Noun

簪(かんざし) • (kanzashi) 

  1. a hairpin, particularly a fancy decorative hairpin used in Japanese women's hairstyles

Usage notes

This is most commonly spelled in kanji as 簪 or in kana as かんざし.

The alternative kanji spellings are attested, but seldom used in modern Japanese.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

簪 • (jam) (hangeul 잠, revised jam, McCune–Reischauer cham, Yale cam)

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Vietnamese

Han character

簪: Hán Nôm readings: trâm, trám, trắm

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