See also:
U+87EC, 蟬
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-87EC

[U+87EB]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+87ED]

Translingual

Traditional
Shinjitai
(extended)
Simplified

Han character

(radical 142, +12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 中戈口口十 (LIRRJ), four-corner 56156, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1097, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33616
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1562, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2891, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+87EC

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*taːlʔ
*taːlʔ, *taːls, *taːn, *daːn
*taːlʔ, *tʰjaːlʔ
*daːl, *daːn, *teːn
*daːl
*teːl
*deːl, *deːls, *daːn
*tjal, *tjals
*taːn, *djan, *djanʔ, *djans
*taːn
*taːn
*taːn
*taːn
*taːn
*daːn, *daːns
*daːn, *deːn
*daːn, *daːnʔ, *daːns, *djan, *taːnʔ
*daːnʔ
*daːnʔ, *daːns, *djan
*daːns
樿 *tjanʔ
*tjanʔ, *tʰjan, *tʰjanʔ
*tjans
*tʰjanʔ
*tʰjanʔ
*tʰjanʔ
*tʰaːn, *tʰjanʔ
*tʰjanʔ
*djan
*djan, *djans
*djan
*djanʔ
*djanʔ
*teːnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *djan) : semantic  (insect) + phonetic  (OC *taːn, *djan, *djanʔ, *djans).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • Xiamen, Zhangzhou:
    • siân - literary;
    • chûn - vernacular.
  • Quanzhou:
    • siân - literary;
    • siâm - colloquial variant.
Note:
  • siam5 - literary;
  • sung5 - vernacular.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂʰan³⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂʰan²⁴/
Tianjin /ʈ͡ʂʰan⁴⁵/
/t͡sʰan⁴⁵/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂʰã⁴²/
Qingdao /tʃʰã⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰan⁴²/
Xi'an /ʂã²⁴/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂʰã²⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂʰan⁵³/
Lanzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰɛ̃n⁵³/
/ʂɛ̃n⁵³/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂʰan⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡sʰan²¹³/
Chengdu /san³¹/
Guiyang /san²¹/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂʰã̠³¹/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂaŋ²⁴/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂʰæ̃⁵⁵/
/ʈ͡ʂʰən⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰæ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sʰæ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /zø²³/
Suzhou /zø¹³/
Hangzhou /zz̩ʷõ²¹³/
Wenzhou /ji³¹/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰie⁴⁴/
Tunxi /t͡sʰɔn⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /ʂə̃¹³/
/ɕyẽ¹³/
Xiangtan /ɕyẽ¹²/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /san¹¹/
Taoyuan /ʃɑm¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /sim²¹/
Nanning /sim²¹/
Hong Kong /sim²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /sian³⁵/
/t͡sun³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /sieŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /iŋ²¹/
/t͡saŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /siam⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /sin³¹/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (25)
Final () (77)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡ʑiᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun
/d͡ʑiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡ʑjæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/d͡ʑian/
Li
Rong
/ʑiɛn/
Wang
Li
/ʑĭɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʑi̯ɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chán
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
chán
Middle
Chinese
‹ dzyen ›
Old
Chinese
/*[d]a[r]/
English cicada

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 # 1/1
No. 2028
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*djan/

Definitions

  1. cicada
  2. a type of silk as thin as a cicada's wing
  3. cicada-shaped decoration
  4. continuously; unendingly

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of (“cicada”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)
Taxonomic name
Mandarin Beijing 季鳥兒, 馬季, 伏天兒
Taiwan , 知了
Jinan 知了, 稍錢兒, 截了
Xi'an 知了
Wuhan 知丫, 知衣, 嗟哩, 嗟林
Chengdu 蟬子
Yangzhou 嘰溜子
Hefei 遮溜子, 遮溜, 遮遮子
Cantonese Guangzhou , 沙蟬
Hong Kong , 沙蟬
Gan Nanchang 借落子
Hakka Meixian 蟬仔, 呀衣仔
Huidong (Daling)
Qujiang 蟬子
Changting 呀衣
Pingyu 蟬子
Wuping 蟬子
Liancheng 呀衣
Ninghua 蟬蟬子
Ruijin 呀蟻子
Shangyou 蟬子
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 蟬仔
Liudui (S. Sixian) 蟬仔
Hsinchu (Hailu) 蟬仔
Dongshi (Dabu) , 䗊䗊依
Hsinchu (Raoping) 蟬仔
Yunlin (Zhao'an)
Jin Taiyuan 蟬兒, , 秋蟬
Min Bei Jian'ou 蟬蚱
Min Dong Fuzhou 阿蛦, 阿蛦母
Min Nan Xiamen 𧌄蜅蠐
Quanzhou 洋飛獅
Zhangzhou 𧌄栱蟬
Taipei 𧌄蜅蠐, 蟬仔
Kaohsiung 𧌄蜅蠐仔
Tainan 𧌄蜅蠐, 蟬仔
Taichung
Hsinchu 蟬蠳, 蛣蛚
Lukang 𧌄蜅蠐, 青吱仔
Sanxia 吱蟬
Yilan
Kinmen 蟬仔, 大蛚, 𧌄蜅蠐
Magong , 𧌄蜅蠐
Penang 𧌄蜅蠐
Chaozhou 藥部蟬, 悲蟬
Wu Shanghai 知了
Suzhou 知了, 洋師太
Wenzhou 知了
Xiang Changsha 蟬蛉子
Shuangfeng 蟬蛉子

Compounds

  • 佩蟬佩蝉
  • 唅蟬唅蝉
  • 噤若寒蟬噤若寒蝉
  • 寒蟬寒蝉 (hánchán)
  • 寒蟬仗馬寒蝉仗马
  • 掩雀捕蟬掩雀捕蝉
  • 玉蟬花玉蝉花
  • 秋蟬秋蝉
  • 耀蟬耀蝉
  • 脫殼金蟬脱壳金蝉 (tuōqiàojīnchán)
  • 自同寒蟬自同寒蝉
  • 葉蟬叶蝉
  • 蚱蟬蚱蝉
  • 螳螂搏蟬螳螂搏蝉
  • 蟬不知雪蝉不知雪
  • 蟬冠蝉冠 (chánguān)
  • 蟬嘶蝉嘶
  • 蟬嫣蝉嫣
  • 蟬珥蝉珥
  • 蟬紋蝉纹
  • 蟬紗蝉纱
  • 蟬翼蝉翼 (chányì)
  • 蟬聯蝉联 (chánlián)
  • 蟬腹蝉腹
  • 蟬腹龜腸蝉腹龟肠
  • 蟬蛻蝉蜕 (chántuì)
  • 蟬鬢蝉鬓
  • 蟬鳴稻蝉鸣稻
  • 蟹匡蟬緌蟹匡蝉緌
  • 貂蟬貂蝉 (Diāochán)
  • 貂蟬冠貂蝉冠
  • 軟枝黃蟬软枝黄蝉
  • 金蟬脫殼金蝉脱壳 (jīnchántuōqiào)
  • 馬蟬马蝉
  • 黃雀伺蟬黄雀伺蝉

References


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

  1. cicada
  2. continuous

Readings

  • Go-on: ぜん (zen)
  • Kan-on: せん (sen)
  • Kun: せみ (semi, )

Korean

Hanja

(seon) (hangeul , revised seon, McCuneReischauer sŏn, Yale sen)

  1. cicada

Vietnamese

Han character

(thiền)

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