僊

See also: 仙

僊	U+50CA, 僊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-50CA

← 僉
[U+50C9]

CJK Unified Ideographs

僋 →
[U+50CB]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

僊 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+11, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人一田山 (OMWU), four-corner 2121₂, composition ⿰亻䙴 (TK) or ⿰亻⿱䙲巳 (GJ))

Related characters edit

仙 (currently used in both traditional and simplified Chinese to replace the archaic form 僊)

References edit

Kangxi Dictionary: page 115, character 29
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1055
Dae Jaweon: page 246, character 15
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 209, character 2
Unihan data for U+50CA

Chinese edit

Glyph origin edit

Historical forms of the character 僊

**Small seal script**
s05903

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (遷) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
遷	*sʰen
櫏	*sʰen
韆	*sʰen
僊	*sen
躚	sen, seːn
蹮	*seːn

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sen) : semantic 人 (“person”) + phonetic 䙴 (OC *sʰen).

Etymology 1 edit

For pronunciation and definitions of 僊 – see 仙 (“xian; extraordinary person; etc.”). (This character is the simplified form of 仙).
Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Compounds edit

僊人／仙人 (xiānrén)
僊僊／仙仙
水僊／水仙 (shuǐxiān)
登僊／登仙 (dēngxiān)
神僊／神仙 (shénxiān)
翩僊／翩仙 (piānxiān)
謫僊／谪仙

Etymology 2 edit

For pronunciation and definitions of 僊 – see 遷 (“to ascend; to go up; to promote; to be promoted; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 遷).