剡

剡 (Kangxi radical 18, 刀+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 火火中弓 (FFLN), four-corner 9280₀, composition ⿰炎刂)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 141, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2059
• Dae Jaweon: page 321, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 346, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5261

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɦljamʔ, *lamʔ): phonetic 炎 (OC *ɦlam) + semantic 刂 (“knife”).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-rjam (“sharp”) (STEDT, Schuessler, 2007). Initial *r- was re-interpreted as pre-initial and dropped; whereas doublets 磏 (OC *r(i)am, “whetstone”) and 鐮 (OC *ɡ·rem, “sickle”) retain *r-.

剡

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) sharp; pointed

   alt. forms: 掞, 覃

2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to sharpen
3. (literary, obsolete) to lift, raise
4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to put forward, propose (someone); to nominate

• 䎦 (yǎn)

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剡

1. a historical county of Kuaiji in Han dynasty, now 嵊州 (Shèngzhōu), Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China
2. (～溪) Shan Creek, upper stretch of Cao'e River

• 羅竹風 , editor (1986–1994), “剡”, in 漢語大詞典 (in Chinese), 1st edition, Shanghai: Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House, →ISBN
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B00228

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. sharp
2. sharp-pointed
3. sharpen

• On (unclassified): えん (en)、せん (sen)、ぜん (zen)
• Kun: するどい (surudoi)、そるどくする (sorudokusuru)、けずる (kezuru)

剡 (eum 섬 (seom))
剡 (eum 염 (yeom))

1. sharp