粲

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粲 U+7CB2, 粲
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7CB2
← 粱
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 粳 →

Translingual

Han character

粲 (Kangxi radical 119, 米+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜水火木 (YEFD), four-corner 27904, composition ⿱𣦼米)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 909, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26966
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1335, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3148, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+7CB2

Chinese

trad. 粲
simp. # 粲
alternative forms 𥹏
𥺤

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (粲) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
餐 *sʰaːn
湌 *sʰaːn
粲 *sʰaːns
燦 *sʰaːns
璨 *sʰaːns
薒 *sʰaːns
殩 *sʰoːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰaːns) : phonetic 𣦼 () + semantic 米 (“rice”).

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-sal (“clear, bright, pleasant”) (Unger, 1990; Schuessler, 2007; STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan སལ་བ། (sal ba, “clear, distinct, bright”).

Benedict, 1972 compares this with Tibetan མཚར་བ (mtshar ba, “bright, shining, beautiful”) yet this isn't preferrable consider Middle Chinese *tsʰ- corresponds to Written Tibetan gs-.

Same word as 燦 (OC *sʰaːns)

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 粲
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 寒 (61)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 蒼案切
Baxter tshanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡sʰɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡sʰɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡sʰɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/t͡sʰanH/
Li
Rong 		/t͡sʰɑnH/
Wang
Li 		/t͡sʰɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡sʰɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		càn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		caan3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 粲
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		càn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tshanH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁar-s/
English bright and white

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 粲
Reading # 1/1
No. 1119
Phonetic
component 		粲
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		粲
Old
Chinese 		/*sʰaːns/
Notes 聲符本歺又，粲爲去蕪取精，
與之同源

Definitions

粲

  1. (literary) polished white rice
  2. (literary) bright; radiant
  3. (literary) beautiful; splendid
  4. (literary) smiling; beaming
  5. (literary) numerous; multitudinous
  6. (literary) Alternative form of 餐 (cān, “meal”)
Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 粲 – see 燦 (“vivid; illuminating; bright; lustrous”).
(This character is the draft (1955) first-round simplified and variant form of 燦).
Notes:

References

Japanese

Kanji

粲

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

粲 • (chan) (hangeul 찬, revised chan, McCune–Reischauer ch'an, Yale chan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

粲: Hán Nôm readings: sán, xán

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References

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