顫

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See also: 颤
顫 U+986B, 顫
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-986B
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 顬 →

Translingual

Han character

顫 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+13, 22 strokes, cangjie input 卜一一月金 (YMMBC), four-corner 01186, composition ⿰亶頁)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1410, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43706
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1928, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4394, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+986B

Chinese

trad. 顫
simp. 颤

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 顫
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (旦) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
皽 *tjaʀ, *tanʔ, *tjanʔ
担 *taːnʔ
胆 *daːn, *daːn
疸 *taːnʔ, *taːns
觛 *taːnʔ, *taːns, *daːnʔ
亶 *taːnʔ
嬗 *taːnʔ, *tʰaːn, *djans
笪 *taːnʔ, *taːns, *taːd
狚 *taːnʔ, *taːns, *taːd
旦 *taːns
鴠 *taːns
譠 *tʰaːn, *rteːn
坦 *tʰaːnʔ
但 *daːn, *daːnʔ, *daːns
檀 *daːn
壇 *daːn
儃 *daːn, *djan
驙 *daːn, *tan
袒 *daːnʔ, *rdeːns
襢 *daːnʔ, *tanʔ, *tans
繵 *daːnʔ
膻 *daːnʔ
澶 *daːns, *djan
邅 *tan, *danʔ, *dans
鱣 *tan
饘 *tjan, *tjanʔ
旜 *tjan
氈 *tjan
鸇 *tjan
顫 *tjans
蟺 *djanʔ
擅 *djans
羶 *hljan
呾 *taːd, *ʔraːd
怛 *taːd
妲 *taːd
靼 *taːd, *tjad
炟 *taːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tjans) : phonetic 亶 (OC *taːnʔ) + semantic 頁 (“head”).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • chiàn - literary;
  • chùn - vernacular.
Rime
Character 顫
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 仙 (77)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 之膳切
Baxter tsyenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ɕiᴇnH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡ɕiɛnH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ɕjænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/cianH/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ɕiɛnH/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ɕĭɛnH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡ɕi̯ɛnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zin3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 顫
Reading # 1/1
No. 2090
Phonetic
component 		旦
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		戰
Old
Chinese 		/*tjans/

Definitions

顫

  1. to shake; to vibrate; to tremble
  2. to shiver; to tremble

Synonyms

  • (to tremble):

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

顫

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): せん (sen)
  • Kun: ふるえる (furueru, 顫える)

Korean

Hanja

顫 • (jeon) (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune–Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

顫: Hán Nôm readings: chiến, chiên

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