顫

See also 颤

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 亶 + semantic 頁 (“head”): head is askew.

Han character

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

1. shiver, tremble
2. trembling

References

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

顫 (simplified 颤, Yale jin3)

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Japanese

Kanji

顫

Readings

• On: せん (sen)
• Kun: ふるえる (furueru)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

顫 (simplified 颤, pinyin chàn (chan4), shān (shan1), zhàn (zhan4), Wade-Giles ch'an⁴, shan¹, chan⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

顫 (chiến, chiên)