U+5261, 剡
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5261

[U+5260]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5262]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 18, +8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 火火中弓 (FFLN), four-corner 92800, composition)

  1. sharp, sharp-pointed
  2. sharpen

References

  • KangXi: page 141, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2059
  • Dae Jaweon: page 321, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 346, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5261

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*l'oːmʔ, *l'aːm, *l'aːms
*l̥ʰaːm, *l̥ʰaːmʔ, *l̥ʰjam
*l̥ʰaːmʔ
*l̥ʰaːmʔ
*l̥ʰaːmʔ, *l̥ʰjam, *l̥ʰjams
*l̥ʰaːms
*l̥ʰaːms, *hljamʔ
*l̥ʰaːms
*l'aːm
*l'aːm
*l'aːm, *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
*l'aːm
*l'aːm, *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms, *lamʔ
*l'aːm
*l'aːm
*l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
*l'aːms
*ɦljamʔ, *lamʔ
*hljamʔ
*hljams
*ɦlam
*lamʔ
*lamʔ
*lamʔ

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-rjam (sharp) (STEDT, Schuessler, 2007). Initial *r- was re-interpreted as pre-initial and dropped; whereas doublets (OC *r(i)am, “whetstone”) and (OC *ɡ·rem, “sickle”) retain *r-.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (36) (25)
Final () (153) (153)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/jiᴇmX/ /d͡ʑiᴇmX/
Pan
Wuyun
/jiɛmX/ /d͡ʑiɛmX/
Shao
Rongfen
/jæmX/ /d͡ʑjæmX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/jiamX/ /d͡ʑiamX/
Li
Rong
/iɛmX/ /ʑiɛmX/
Wang
Li
/jĭɛmX/ /ʑĭɛmX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i̯ɛmX/ /ʑi̯ɛmX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yǎn shàn
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yǎn
Middle
Chinese
‹ yemX ›
Old
Chinese
/*N-r[a]mʔ/
English sharp; pierce

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 14311 14317
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɦljamʔ/ /*lamʔ/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. sharp
  2. sharp-pointed
  3. sharpen

Readings

  • On (unclassified): えん (en), せん (sen), ぜん (zen)
  • Kun: するどい (surudoi), そるどくする (sorudokusuru), けずる (kezuru)

Korean

Hanja

(seom,yeom) (hangeul ,, revised seom, yeom, McCuneReischauer sŏm, yŏm)

  1. sharp
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