鏨

See also: 錾

鏨 U+93E8, 鏨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-93E8 ← 鏧 [U+93E7] CJK Unified Ideographs 鏩 → [U+93E9]

Translingual

Han character

鏨 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+11, 19 strokes, cangjie input 十中金 (JLC), four-corner 5210₉, composition ⿱斬金)

1. engraving tool, chisel

Derived characters

• 𧅀

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1320, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40824
• Dae Jaweon: page 1820, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4246, character 20
• Unihan data for U+93E8

Chinese

trad.		鏨
simp.		錾

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
慚	*zaːm
慙	*zaːm
鏨	*zaːm, *zaːmʔ, *zaːms, *zeːm, *zamʔ
槧	*zaːmʔ, *sʰam, *sʰams, *zamʔ
暫	*zaːms
蹔	*zaːms
斬	*ʔsreːmʔ
獑	*zeːm, *zaːm
嶃	*zreːmʔ, *zaːm
覱	*ʔsraːms
摲	*sʰraːms
漸	*ʔsam, *zamʔ
塹	*sʰams
壍	*sʰams
嬱	*sʰams
螹	*zam, *zamʔ
蔪	*zamʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zàn (zan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zaam⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chām / chǎm

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zàn
    • Wade–Giles: tsan⁴
    • Yale: dzàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzann
    • Palladius: цзань (czanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zaam⁶
    • Yale: jaahm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzaam⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: zam⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saːm²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Taichung, Hsinchu, Sanxia, Yilan, Kinmen, Magong)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chām
    • Tâi-lô: tsām
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zam
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Yilan): /t͡sam³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kinmen): /t͡sam²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Lukang)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chǎm
    • Tâi-lô: tsǎm
    • IPA (Lukang): /t͡sam³³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sam²²/

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• Middle Chinese: dzam, dzream, dzamX, dzjemX, dzamH

Rime
Character	鏨	鏨	鏨	鏨	鏨
Reading #	1/5	2/5	3/5	4/5	5/5
Initial (聲)	從 (15)	崇 (20)	從 (15)	從 (15)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	談 (143)	咸 (151)	談 (143)	鹽 (153)	談 (143)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	II	I	III	I
Fanqie	昨甘切	士咸切	才敢切	慈染切	藏濫切
Baxter	dzam	dzream	dzamX	dzjemX	dzamH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡zɑm/	/d͡ʒˠɛm/	/d͡zɑmX/	/d͡ziᴇmX/	/d͡zɑmH/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡zɑm/	/ɖ͡ʐᵚæm/	/d͡zɑmX/	/d͡ziɛmX/	/d͡zɑmH/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡zɑm/	/d͡ʒɐm/	/d͡zɑmX/	/d͡zjæmX/	/d͡zɑmH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡zam/	/ɖ͡ʐəɨm/	/d͡zamX/	/d͡ziamX/	/d͡zamH/
Li Rong	/d͡zɑm/	/d͡ʒɐm/	/d͡zɑmX/	/d͡ziɛmX/	/d͡zɑmH/
Wang Li	/d͡zɑm/	/d͡ʒɐm/	/d͡zɑmX/	/d͡zĭɛmX/	/d͡zɑmH/
Bernard Karlgren	/d͡zʱɑm/	/ɖ͡ʐʱăm/	/d͡zʱɑmX/	/d͡zʱi̯ɛmX/	/d͡zʱɑmH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cán	chán	zàn	jiàn	zàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	caam4	caam4	zaam6	zim6	zaam6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*zaːm/, /*zaːmʔ/, /*zaːms/, /*zeːm/, /*zamʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鏨	鏨	鏨	鏨	鏨
Reading #	1/5	2/5	3/5	4/5	5/5
No.	16790	16792	16794	16798	16813
Phonetic component	斬	斬	斬	斬	斬
Rime group	談	談	談	談	談
Rime subdivision	1	1	1	2	1
Corresponding MC rime	慙	槧	暫	讒	漸
Old Chinese	/*zaːm/	/*zaːmʔ/	/*zaːms/	/*zeːm/	/*zamʔ/

Definitions

鏨

1. chisel
2. to carve; to engrave
3. (Hokkien) to chop

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 砍 (“to chop; to hack”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		砍
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	砍
	Taiwan	砍
	Singapore	砍, 斬
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	砍
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	砍
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	砍
	Wuhan	砍, 剁
	Guilin	砍
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	砍, 㓠
	Hefei	砍
Cantonese	Guangzhou	斬
	Hong Kong	斬
	Yangjiang	并
	Beihai	斬
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô)	斬
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà)	斬
	Fangchenggang (Fangcheng)	斬
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	斬
	Singapore (Guangfu)	斬
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	斬
	Móng Cái	斬
Gan	Nanchang	砍, 剁
Hakka	Meixian	斬, 砍
Jin	Taiyuan	砍
Northern Min	Jian'ou	砍, 斫
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	剉, 鍘
Southern Min	Xiamen	鏨, 砍, 斲, 刜
	Quanzhou	鏨, 斲
	Zhangzhou	鏨, 斲, 刜
	Taipei	鏨
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	鏨
	Kaohsiung	鏨
	Yilan	鏨
	Changhua (Lukang)	鏨
	Taichung	鏨, 斲
	Tainan	鏨
	Hsinchu	鏨, 斲
	Kinmen	鏨
	Penghu (Magong)	鏨
	Penang (Hokkien)	鏨
	Singapore (Hokkien)	斲, 斬
	Manila (Hokkien)	鏨
	Chaozhou	斬, 斲
	Shantou	斬
	Jieyang	斬, 斲
	Singapore (Teochew)	斲
	Pontianak (Teochew)	斬
Wu	Suzhou	㔍
	Wenzhou	剉, 剁
Xiang	Changsha	砍, 剁
	Shuangfeng	剁, 砍

Compounds

• 鏨刀／錾刀
• 鏨口兒／錾口儿
• 鏨口兒／錾口儿
• 鏨子／錾子 (zànzi)

 

Japanese

Kanji

鏨

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. chisel

Readings

• Go-on: ざん (zan); ぜん (zen)
• Kan-on: さん (san)
• Kun: たがね (tagane, 鏨); える (eru)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
鏨
たがね Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 鏨 – see the following entry.

【たがね】 [noun] chisel used for metal Alternative spelling 鑽

(This term, 鏨, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

鏨 • (cham) (hangeul 참, revised cham, McCune–Reischauer ch'am, Yale cham)

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