阡

阡 U+9621, 阡 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9621 ← 阠 [U+9620] CJK Unified Ideographs 阢 → [U+9622]

Translingual

Han character

阡 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 弓中竹十 (NLHJ), four-corner 7224₀, composition ⿰阝千)

1. footpaths between fields
2. paths

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1345, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41548
• Dae Jaweon: page 1847, character 33
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4115, character 9
• Unihan data for U+9621

Chinese

simp. and trad.		阡

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
千	*sn̥ʰiːn
仟	*sn̥ʰiːn
芊	*sn̥ʰiːn, *sn̥ʰiːns
阡	*sn̥ʰiːn
汘	*sn̥ʰiːn
迁	*sn̥ʰiːn
杄	*sn̥ʰiːn
人	*njin
仁	*njin
朲	*njin
佞	*neːŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sn̥ʰiːn) : semantic 阜 (“soil mountain”) + phonetic 千 (OC *sn̥ʰiːn).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qiān (qian¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cin¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qiān
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cian
    • Wade–Giles: chʻien¹
    • Yale: chyān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chian
    • Palladius: цянь (cjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: cin¹
    • Yale: chīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsin¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: qin¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tshen

Rime
Character	阡
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	蒼先切
Baxter	tshen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰen/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰen/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰɛn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰɛn/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰen/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰien/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰien/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qiān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cin1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[tsʰ]ˤi[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sn̥ʰiːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	阡
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qiān
Middle Chinese	‹ tshen ›
Old Chinese	/*[tsʰ]ˁi[n]/
English	N-S path between fields
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	阡
Reading #	1/1
No.	10795
Phonetic component	人
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	千
Old Chinese	/*sn̥ʰiːn/

Definitions

阡

1. (literary) footpaths between fields going north to south

Compounds

• 荖阡
• 阡陌 (qiānmò)

 

Japanese

Kanji

阡

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. (financial, archaic) thousand

Readings

• Go-on: せん (sen)
• Kan-on: せん (sen)
• Kun: あぜ (aze, 阡); はかみち (hakamichi, 阡); みち (michi, 阡)

Korean

Hanja

阡 • (cheon) (hangeul 천, revised cheon, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏn, Yale chen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

阡: Hán Việt readings: thiên
阡: Nôm readings: thiên

1. chữ Hán form of thiên (“bank of a rice paddy”).