顓

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See also: 颛
顓 U+9853, 顓
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9853
← 顒
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 顔 →

Translingual

Han character

顓 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+9, 18 strokes, cangjie input 山月一月金 (UBMBC), four-corner 21286, composition ⿰耑頁)

  1. good, honest
  2. simple
  3. respectful
  4. surname (See Zhuanxu, there is a Village called 顓褚寺／颛褚寺 (Zhuānchǔsì) in Cang County, Hebei Province. All of the residents are surnamed Zhuan. see http://www.zhuan.org)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1407, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43600
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1925, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4382, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+9853

Chinese

trad. 顓
simp. 颛

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 顓
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (耑) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
揣 *toːlʔ, *sʰrolʔ
褍 *toːlʔ, *toːn
惴 *tjols
圌 *djol, *djon
篅 *djol, *djon
瑞 *djols
端 *toːn
剬 *toːn, *tjonʔ
偳 *toːn, *tʰoːn
鍴 *toːn
耑 *toːn
踹 *toːns, *djonʔ
湍 *tʰoːn, *tjon
煓 *tʰoːn
貒 *tʰoːn, *tʰoːns
諯 *stʰons, *tjon, *tʰjons, *djon
顓 *tjon
喘 *tʰjonʔ
遄 *djon
輲 *djon
椯 *djon
歂 *djon, *djonʔ
腨 *djonʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 顓
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
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 顓
Reading # 1/1
No. 2513
Phonetic
component 		耑
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		專
Old
Chinese 		/*tjon/

Definitions

顓

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

顓

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. good
  2. honest
  3. simple
  4. respectful

Readings

  • On (unclassified): せん (sen)

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. honest
  2. stupid

Vietnamese

Han character

顓: Hán Nôm readings: chuyên

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