Wiktionary

專

See also: 専 and 尃
專 U+5C08, 專
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C08
← 將
[U+5C07] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 尉 →
[U+5C09]

Translingual edit

Traditional 專
Shinjitai 専
Simplified 专

Han character edit

專 (Kangxi radical 41, 寸+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 十戈木戈 (JIDI), four-corner 50343, composition ⿳⿻一申⿰㇀丶寸 or ⿱⿻一⿻虫一寸)

Descendants edit

Derived characters edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 295, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7439
  • Dae Jaweon: page 584, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 507, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5C08

Chinese edit

trad. 專
simp. 专
alternative forms 専
耑
剸／𰄞
叀
𠧡

Glyph origin edit

Historical forms of the character 專
Shang Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
     
Characters in the same phonetic series (專) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
竱 *toːn, *tjonʔ
團 *doːn
摶 *doːn, *doːn, *donʔ
篿 *doːn, *tjon
慱 *doːn
剸 *doːn, *tjonʔ, *tjons
鄟 *doːn, *tjon, *djonʔ
漙 *doːn
鷒 *doːn, *tjon
轉 *tonʔ, *tons
傳 *tons, *don, *dons
囀 *tons
縳 *donʔ, *dons
專 *tjon
磚 *tjon
甎 *tjon
塼 *tjon
嫥 *tjon
膞 *tjon, *tjonʔ, *djonʔ
鱄 *tjon, *tjonʔ
蓴 *djun

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tjon): phonetic 叀 (“spindle”) + semantic 又 (“hand”) – a hand turning a spindle or spinning wheel. Originally also written 叀.

The 又 was later replaced by related 寸.

Pronunciation edit

Note:
  • zuang1 - Shantou;
  • zuêng1- Chaozhou.
  • Wu
    • Rime
    Character 專
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial (聲) 章 (23)
    Final (韻) 仙 (78)
    Tone (調) Level (Ø)
    Openness (開合) Closed
    Division (等) III
    Fanqie 職緣切
    Baxter tsywen
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang         		/t͡ɕiuᴇn/
    Pan
    Wuyun         		/t͡ɕʷiɛn/
    Shao
    Rongfen         		/t͡ɕjuæn/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank         		/cwian/
    Li
    Rong         		/t͡ɕiuɛn/
    Wang
    Li         		/t͡ɕĭwɛn/
    Bernard
    Karlgren         		/t͡ɕi̯wɛn/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex         		zhuān
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex         		zyun1
    Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character 專
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)         		zhuān
    Middle
    Chinese         		‹ tsywen ›
    Old
    Chinese         		/*ton/
    English exclusively

    Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

    * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
    * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
    * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
    * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

    * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
    Zhengzhang system (2003)
    Character 專
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 17683
    Phonetic
    component         		專
    Rime
    group         		元
    Rime
    subdivision         		3
    Corresponding
    MC rime         		專
    Old
    Chinese         		/*tjon/

    Definitions edit

    專

    1. to monopolize; to take sole possession
    2. specific; special; exclusive
    3. expert; focused; concentrated
    4. exclusively; specially
    5. (obsolete) spindle; spinning wheel
    6. a surname: Zhuan

    Compounds edit

    References edit

    Japanese edit

    Shinjitai

    		専

    Kyūjitai

    		專

    Kanji edit

    專

    (“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 専)

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    Readings edit

    Korean edit

    Hanja edit

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

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    Vietnamese edit

    Han character edit

    專: Hán Việt readings: chuyên[1][2][3][4][5]
    專: Nôm readings: choen[1], choèn[1][6], chuyến[1][2][6]

    1. chữ Hán form of chuyên (“specific; expertise”).

    References edit

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Génibrel (1898).
    2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bonet (1899).
    3. ^ Nguyễn (1974).
    4. ^ Trần (1999).
    5. ^ Nguyễn et al. (2009).
    6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Hồ (1976).
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