See also:
U+7B4D, 筍
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B4D

[U+7B4C]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+7B4E]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

(Kangxi radical 118, +6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹心日 (HPA) or 難竹心日 (XHPA), four-corner 88627, composition 𥫗)

Derived characters edit

References edit

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

Chinese edit

Glyph origin edit

Historical forms of the character
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
     

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *sqʰʷinʔ): semantic (bamboo) + phonetic (OC *sɢʷin).

Etymology 1 edit

trad. /
simp.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation edit



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /suən²¹⁴/
Harbin /suən²¹³/
Tianjin /suən¹³/
Jinan /ɕyẽ⁵⁵/
Qingdao /syə̃⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /syn⁵³/
Xi'an /suẽ⁵³/
Xining /suə̃⁵³/
Yinchuan /suŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /sũn⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /suŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /sən⁴²/
Chengdu /sən⁵³/
Guiyang /sen⁴²/
Kunming /suə̃⁵³/
Nanjing /sun²¹²/
Hefei /sən⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /suəŋ⁵³/
Pingyao /suŋ⁵³/
Hohhot /sũŋ⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /səŋ³⁵/
Suzhou /sən⁵¹/
Hangzhou /sz̩ʷen⁵³/
Wenzhou /ɕoŋ³⁵/
Hui Shexian /sʌ̃³⁵/
Tunxi /sin³¹/
Xiang Changsha /sən⁴¹/
Xiangtan /dən⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /sun²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /sun³¹/
Taoyuan /sun³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /søn³⁵/
Nanning /ɬɐn³⁵/
/ɬyn³⁵/
Hong Kong /søn³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /sun⁵³/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /suŋ³²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /sœyŋ²¹/
Shantou (Teochew) /suŋ⁵³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /tun²¹³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (47)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter swinX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/siuɪnX/
Pan
Wuyun
/sʷinX/
Shao
Rongfen
/sjuenX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/swinX/
Li
Rong
/siuĕnX/
Wang
Li
/sĭuĕnX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/si̯uĕnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xǔn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
seon2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
sǔn
Middle
Chinese
‹ swinX ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-qʷi[n]ʔ/
English bamboo sprouts

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 16392
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sqʰʷinʔ/

Definitions edit

  1. bamboo shoot
  2. (literary, or in compounds) tender; young
  3. Alternative form of (sǔn, horizontal beam on which bells hang)
Synonyms edit
  • (bamboo shoot):

Compounds edit

Etymology 2 edit

trad. /
simp.
alternative forms

From (seon6, “smooth; successful”).

Pronunciation edit

Definitions edit

  1. (Cantonese, slang) very good; worth it; inexpensive; less costly than its actual value

Compounds edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. bamboo shoot

Readings edit

Korean edit

Hanja edit

(sun) (hangeul , revised sun, McCune–Reischauer sun, Yale swun)

  1. sprout, shoot

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

: Hán Nôm readings: duẫn, sũn, hũn

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