汕

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汕 U+6C55, 汕
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C55
← 汔
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 汖 →

Translingual

Han character

汕 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 水山 (EU), four-corner 32170, composition ⿰氵山)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 605, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17128
  • Dae Jaweon: page 999, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1552, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6C55

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 汕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 汕
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (山) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
山 *sreːn
疝 *sreːn, *sraːns
邖 *sreːn
汕 *sreːnʔ, *sraːns
訕 *sraːn, *sraːns
仙 *sen
秈 *sen
苮 *sen
屾 *srin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sreːnʔ, *sraːns): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 山 (OC *sreːn).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Note: suan1 - in 汕頭／汕头, 潮汕.
Rime
Character 汕 汕
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 生 (21) 生 (21)
Final (韻) 山 (73) 刪 (69)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) II II
Fanqie 所簡切 所晏切
Baxter sreanX sraenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʃˠɛnX/ /ʃˠanH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʃᵚænX/ /ʃᵚanH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʃænX/ /ʃɐnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʂəɨnX/ /ʂaɨnH/
Li
Rong 		/ʃɛnX/ /ʃanH/
Wang
Li 		/ʃænX/ /ʃanH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ʂănX/ /ʂanH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		shǎn shàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		saan2 saan3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 汕 汕
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 11055 11059
Phonetic
component 		山 山
Rime
group 		元 元
Rime
subdivision 		2 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		産 訕
Old
Chinese 		/*sreːnʔ/ /*sraːns/

Definitions

汕

  1. (of fish) moving
  2. basket for catching fish
  3. to catch fish
  4. to rinse
  5. Short for 汕頭／汕头 (Shàntóu).
Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 汕 – see 涮 (“to rinse clean; to swill; to scald thin slices of meat in boiling water; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of 涮).

Japanese

Kanji

汕

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: せん (sen)
  • Kan-on: さん (san)
  • Kun: すくいあみ (sukuiami)

Korean

Hanja

汕 • (san) (hangeul 산, revised san, McCune–Reischauer san, Yale san)

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Vietnamese

Han character

汕: Hán Nôm readings: sươn, sán, sớn

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References

  • Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
  • Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
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