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Translingual
Han character
擅 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 手卜田一 (QYWM), four-corner 50016, composition ⿰扌亶)
- monopolize
- claim
- arbitrarily
- to dare
- to be good at
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 457, character 34
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12790
- Dae Jaweon: page 806, character 16
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1971, character 4
- Unihan data for U+64C5
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 皽
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*tjaʀ, *tanʔ, *tjanʔ
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| 担
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*taːnʔ
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| 胆
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*daːn, *daːn
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| 疸
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*taːnʔ, *taːns
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| 觛
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*taːnʔ, *taːns, *daːnʔ
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| 亶
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*taːnʔ
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| 嬗
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*taːnʔ, *tʰaːn, *djans
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| 笪
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*taːnʔ, *taːns, *taːd
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| 狚
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*taːnʔ, *taːns, *taːd
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| 旦
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*taːns
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| 鴠
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*taːns
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| 譠
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*tʰaːn, *rteːn
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| 坦
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*tʰaːnʔ
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| 但
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*daːn, *daːnʔ, *daːns
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| 檀
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*daːn
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| 壇
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*daːn
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| 儃
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*daːn, *djan
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| 驙
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*daːn, *tan
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| 袒
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*daːnʔ, *rdeːns
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| 襢
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*daːnʔ, *tanʔ, *tans
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| 繵
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*daːnʔ
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| 膻
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*daːnʔ
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| 澶
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*daːns, *djan
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| 邅
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*tan, *danʔ, *dans
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| 鱣
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*tan
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| 饘
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*tjan, *tjanʔ
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| 旜
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*tjan
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| 氈
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*tjan
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| 鸇
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*tjan
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| 顫
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*tjans
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| 蟺
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*djanʔ
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| 擅
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*djans
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| 羶
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*hljan
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| 呾
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*taːd, *ʔraːd
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| 怛
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*taːd
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| 妲
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*taːd
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| 靼
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*taːd, *tjad
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| 炟
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*taːd
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *djans) : semantic 手 (“hands”) + phonetic 亶 (OC *taːnʔ).
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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擅
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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shàn
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ dzyenH ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*a-s/
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| English
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act without authority
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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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擅
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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2094
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Phonetic
component
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旦
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Rime
group
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元
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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繕
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Old
Chinese
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/*djans/
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Definitions
擅
- to hold all in one's hands; to monopolize
- to own; to possess
- to be good at
- to do on one's own initiative; to do according to one's wishes
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
擅
(Hyōgai kanji)
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Readings
Compounds
Etymology 1
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Pronunciation
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Etymology 2
| For pronunciation and definitions of 擅 – see the following entry.
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| (This term, 擅, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)
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Korean
Hanja
擅 • (cheon) (hangeul 천, revised cheon, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏn, Yale chen)
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Vietnamese
Han character
擅: Hán Nôm readings: chen, thiện
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