筍

Translingual

Han character

筍 (radical 118 竹+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹心日 (HPA), X竹心日 (XHPA), four-corner 8862₇)

1. bamboo shoot
2. joint
3. tendon

References

• KangXi: page 883, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25997
• Dae Jaweon: page 1312, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2969, character 2
• Unihan data for U+7B4D

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Cantonese

Hanzi

筍 (simplified 笋, jyutping seon2, Yale seun2)

• Slang: very good; get something without paying its actual value.

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Japanese

Kanji

筍

Readings

• On: じゅん (jun), しゅん (shun)
• Kun: たけのこ (takenoko); (see 竹の子)

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Korean

Hanja

筍 (hangeul 순, revised sun, McCune-Reischauer sun, Yale swun)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

筍 (simplified 笋, pinyin sǔn (sun3), Wade-Giles sun³)

Compounds

• 竹筍

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Middle Chinese

Han character

筍 (suǐn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

筍 (duẩn)

Last modified on 18 January 2013, at 17:22