籤

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See also: 籖 and 签
籤 U+7C64, 籤
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7C64
← 籣
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 籥 →

Translingual

Han character

籤 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+17, 23 strokes, cangjie input 竹人戈一 (HOIM), four-corner 88153, composition ⿱𥫗韱)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 905, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26769
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1330, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3032, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+7C64

Chinese

trad. 籤/簽
simp. 签*

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (韱) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
讖 *sʰrims
攕 *sreːm
櫼 *sreːm, *ʔsem
懺 *sʰraːms
殲 *ʔsem
瀸 *ʔsem
鑯 *ʔsem
虃 *ʔslem
籤 *sʰem
韯 *sem
纖 *sem
孅 *sem
韱 *sem
襳 *sem, *srem, *srim

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sʰem) : semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 韱 (OC *sem).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 籤
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 鹽 (153)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 七廉切
Baxter tshjem
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡sʰiᴇm/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡sʰiɛm/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡sʰjæm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/t͡sʰiam/
Li
Rong 		/t͡sʰiɛm/
Wang
Li 		/t͡sʰĭɛm/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/t͡sʰi̯ɛm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		qiān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		cim1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 籤
Reading # 1/1
No. 13482
Phonetic
component 		韱
Rime
group 		談
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese 		/*sʰem/

Definitions

籤

  1. inscribed bamboo slips used for divination or drawing lots; (in general) lot
  2. slender pointed piece of wood
  3. sticker; marker; label

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

籤

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: せん (sen)
  • Kan-on: せん (sen)
  • Kun: くじ (kuji)、かずとり (kazutori)

Noun

籤(くじ) • (kuji) 

  1. lottery

Derived terms

Derived terms

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 籤 (MC tshjem). Recorded as Middle Korean 쳠 (chyem) (Yale: chyem) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

籤 (eumhun 제비 첨 (jebi cheom))

  1. hanja form? of 첨 (“lottery”)

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

籤: Hán Nôm readings: thiêm, tiêm

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