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Translingual
Han character
阡 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 弓中竹十 (NLHJ), four-corner 72240, composition ⿰阝千)
- footpaths between fields
- paths
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1345, character 16
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41548
- Dae Jaweon: page 1847, character 33
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4115, character 9
- Unihan data for U+9621
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 千
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*sn̥ʰiːn
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| 仟
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*sn̥ʰiːn
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| 芊
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*sn̥ʰiːn, *sn̥ʰiːns
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| 阡
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*sn̥ʰiːn
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| 汘
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*sn̥ʰiːn
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| 迁
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*sn̥ʰiːn
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| 杄
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*sn̥ʰiːn
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| 人
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*njin
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| 仁
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*njin
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| 朲
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*njin
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| 佞
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*neːŋs
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sn̥ʰiːn) : semantic 阜 (“soil mountain”) + phonetic 千 (OC *sn̥ʰiːn).
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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阡
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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qiān
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ tshen ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*ˁi/
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| English
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N-S path between fields
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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.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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阡
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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10795
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Phonetic
component
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人
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Rime
group
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眞
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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千
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Old
Chinese
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/*sn̥ʰiːn/
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Definitions
阡
- (literary) footpath between fields going north to south
- Coordinate term: 陌 (mò)
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
阡
(Hyōgai kanji)
- (financial, archaic) thousand
Readings
Korean
Hanja
阡 • (cheon) (hangeul 천, revised cheon, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏn, Yale chen)
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Vietnamese
Han character
阡: Hán Việt readings: thiên[1][2][3][4][5]
阡: Nôm readings: thiên[1][2]
- chữ Hán form of thiên (“bank of a rice paddy”).
References
