纖

See also: 纤

纖	U+7E96, 纖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E96

← 纕
[U+7E95]

CJK Unified Ideographs

纗 →
[U+7E97]

Translingual

Traditional	纖
Shinjitai	繊
Simplified	纤

Han character

纖 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+17, 23 strokes, cangjie input 女火人戈一 (VFOIM), four-corner 2395₀, composition ⿰糹韱)

Derived characters

𩇏, 𮇂

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 943, character 29
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28072
Dae Jaweon: page 1383, character 28
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3469, character 4
Unihan data for U+7E96

Chinese

trad.		纖
simp.		纤^*
alternative forms		纎䊹／纤䑎孅綅／𰬞

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
讖	*sʰrims
攕	*sreːm
櫼	sreːm, ʔsem
懺	*sʰraːms
殲	*ʔsem
瀸	*ʔsem
鑯	*ʔsem
虃	*ʔslem
籤	*sʰem
韯	*sem
纖	*sem
孅	*sem
韱	*sem
襳	sem, srem, *srim

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sem) : semantic 糸 (“silk”) + phonetic 韱 (OC *sem).

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xiān (xian¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cim¹
Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): xiam²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siam / chhiam

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xiān
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sian
  - Wade–Giles: hsien¹
  - Yale: syān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shian
  - Palladius: сянь (sjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: cim¹
  - Yale: chīm
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsim¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: qim¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːm⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: xiam²
  - Sinological IPA: /siam¹¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siam / chhiam
  - Tâi-lô: siam / tshiam
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siafm, chiafm
  - IPA (Xiamen): /siam⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰiam⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /siam³³/, /t͡sʰiam³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /siam⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰiam⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /siam⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰiam⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /siam⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰiam⁴⁴/

Note:

siam - literary;
chhiam - vernacular.

Middle Chinese: sjem

Rime
Character	纖
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	鹽 (153)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	息廉切
Baxter	sjem
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siᴇm/
Pan Wuyun	/siɛm/
Shao Rongfen	/sjæm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/siam/
Li Rong	/siɛm/
Wang Li	/sĭɛm/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯ɛm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sim¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*sem/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	纖
Reading #	1/1
No.	13484
Phonetic component	韱
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	銛
Old Chinese	/*sem/

Definitions

纖

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jiān (jian¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄢ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: jiān
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jian
  - Wade–Giles: chien¹
  - Yale: jyān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jian
  - Palladius: цзянь (czjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵/

Definitions

纖

^† to stab; to prick
^† sharp; pointed
^† Alternative form of 籤／签 (qiān, “bamboo slips”)

Japanese

Shinjitai	繊
Kyūjitai	纖

Kanji

纖

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 繊)

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Readings

On (unclassified): せん (sen)
Kun: ほそい (hosoi, 纖い); ちいさい (chīsai, 纖さい); しなやか (shinayaka, 纖やか)

Korean

Hanja

纖 • (seom) (hangeul 섬, revised seom, McCune–Reischauer sŏm, Yale sem)

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Vietnamese

Han character

纖 (tiêm, tươm, thin, thên)

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Chinese historical small numbers
Value	Character	Notes
10^-1	分 (fèn)	Still used for SI prefix deci-.
10^-2	厘 (lí), 釐 (lí)	Still used for SI prefix centi-.
10^-3	毫 (háo)	Still used for SI prefix milli-. Also 毛 (máo).
10^-4	絲／丝 (sī)	Obsolete / rarely used today.
10^-4	秒 (miǎo)	Obsolete, used only in ancient texts.
10^-5	忽 (hū)	Obsolete / rarely used today.
10^-6	微 (wēi)	Still used for SI prefix micro-.
10^-7	纖／纤 (xiān)	Obsolete.
10^-8	沙 (shā)	Obsolete.
10^-9	塵／尘 (chén)	Obsolete. 納／纳 (nà) and 奈 (nài) are used for SI prefix nano-.
10^-10	埃 (āi)	Obsolete. Character is still used for angstrom, which happens to equal 10^-10 m
10^-11	渺 (miǎo)	Obsolete.
10^-12	漠 (mò)	Obsolete. 皮 (pí) is used for SI prefix pico-.