旃

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 㫃 + phonetic 丹

Han character

旃 (radical 70 方+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜尸人月卜 (YSOBY), four-corner 0824₇)

1. silk banner with bent pole

References

• KangXi: page 482, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13640
• Dae Jaweon: page 844, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2178, character 4
• Unihan data for U+65C3

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Cantonese

Hanzi

旃 (Yale jin1)

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Japanese

Kanji

旃

Readings

• On: せん (sen)
• Kun: はた (hata)

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Korean

Hanja

旃 (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

旃 (pinyin zhān (zhan1), Wade-Giles chan¹)

Last modified on 11 January 2011, at 13:43