粲

粲 (Kangxi radical 119, 米+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜水火木 (YEFD), four-corner 2790₄, composition ⿱𣦼米)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 909, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26966
• Dae Jaweon: page 1335, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3148, character 14
• Unihan data for U+7CB2

Historical forms of the character 粲
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sʰaːns) : phonetic 𣦼 () + semantic 米 (“rice”).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-sal (“clear, bright, pleasant”) (Unger, 1990; Schuessler, 2007; STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan སལ་བ། (sal ba, “clear, distinct, bright”).

Benedict, 1972 compares this with Tibetan མཚར་བ (mtshar ba, “bright, shining, beautiful”) yet this isn't preferrable consider Middle Chinese *tsʰ- corresponds to Written Tibetan gs-.

Luce, 1981 considers the "polished white rice" sense to be related to Burmese ဆန် (hcan, “uncooked white rice”), perhaps referring to the "clear and bright" nature of uncooked rice.

Same word as 燦 (OC *sʰaːns).

粲

1. (literary) polished white rice
2. (literary) bright; radiant
3. (literary) beautiful; splendid
4. (literary) smiling; beaming
5. (literary) numerous; multitudinous
6. (literary) Alternative form of 餐 (cān, “meal”)

• “粲”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: さん (san)
• Kan-on: さん (san)
• Kun: いい (ī)
• Nanori: あきら (akira)、きよし (kiyoshi)、つばら (tsubara)

粲 • (chan) (hangeul 찬, revised chan, McCune–Reischauer ch'an, Yale chan)

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粲: Hán Nôm readings: sán, xán

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