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

Derived characters

References
  • KangXi: page 943, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28072
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1383, character 28
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3469, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+7E96

Chinese
trad. 纖
simp. 纤*
variant forms 䊹

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, OC *sem) : semantic 糸 (“silk”) + phonetic 韱 (OC *sem)

Pronunciation 1
Note:
  • siam - literary;
  • chhiam - vernacular.
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
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
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

  1. fine; delicate
  2. minute
  3. graceful
  4. (Buddhism) the number 10-7

Compounds
Derived terms from 纖

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

纖

  1. † to stab; to prick
  2. † Alternative form of 籤／签 (qiān, “bamboo slips”).

Japanese

Shinjitai

 繊

Kyūjitai

 纖

Kanji
纖

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, 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)

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