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Translingual
Han character
喘 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口山一月 (RUMB), four-corner 62027, composition ⿰口耑)
- pant, gasp, breathe heavily
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 198, character 30
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3946
- Dae Jaweon: page 420, character 18
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 655, character 5
- Unihan data for U+5598
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 揣
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*toːlʔ, *sʰrolʔ
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| 褍
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*toːlʔ, *toːn
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| 惴
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*tjols
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| 圌
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*djol, *djon
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| 篅
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*djol, *djon
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| 瑞
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*djols
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| 端
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*toːn
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| 剬
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*toːn, *tjonʔ
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| 偳
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*toːn, *tʰoːn
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| 鍴
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*toːn
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| 耑
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*toːn
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| 踹
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*toːns, *djonʔ
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| 湍
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*tʰoːn, *tjon
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| 煓
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*tʰoːn
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| 貒
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*tʰoːn, *tʰoːns
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| 諯
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*stʰons, *tjon, *tʰjons, *djon
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| 顓
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*tjon
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| 喘
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*tʰjonʔ
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| 遄
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*djon
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| 輲
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*djon
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| 椯
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*djon
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| 歂
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*djon, *djonʔ
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| 腨
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*djonʔ
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tʰjonʔ) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 耑 (OC *toːn).
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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喘
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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chuǎn
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ tsyhwenX ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*orʔ/
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| English
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to pant
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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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喘
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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2517
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Phonetic
component
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耑
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Rime
group
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元
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Rime
subdivision
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3
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Corresponding
MC rime
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舛
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Old
Chinese
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/*tʰjonʔ/
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Definitions
喘
- to pant; to gasp
- † to breathe
- † breath; breathing
Derived terms
Japanese
Kanji
喘
(Hyōgai kanji)
- pant
- gasp
- breathe hard
Readings
Korean
Hanja
喘 • (cheon) (hangeul 천, revised cheon, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏn)
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Vietnamese
Han character
喘: Hán Nôm readings: suyễn, suyển, siễn
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