擅

擅

擅 U+64C5, 擅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-64C5 ← 擄 [U+64C4] CJK Unified Ideographs 擆 → [U+64C6]

Translingual

Han character

擅 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 手卜田一 (QYWM), four-corner 5001₆, composition ⿰扌亶)

1. monopolize
2. claim
3. arbitrarily
4. to dare
5. to be good at

References

• KangXi: page 457, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12790
• Dae Jaweon: page 806, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1971, character 4
• Unihan data for U+64C5

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		擅
2nd round simp.		𢩳

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
皽	*tjaʀ, *tanʔ, *tjanʔ
担	*taːnʔ
胆	*daːn, *daːn
疸	*taːnʔ, *taːns
觛	*taːnʔ, *taːns, *daːnʔ
亶	*taːnʔ
嬗	*taːnʔ, *tʰaːn, *djans
笪	*taːnʔ, *taːns, *taːd
狚	*taːnʔ, *taːns, *taːd
旦	*taːns
鴠	*taːns
譠	*tʰaːn, *rteːn
坦	*tʰaːnʔ
但	*daːn, *daːnʔ, *daːns
檀	*daːn
壇	*daːn
儃	*daːn, *djan
驙	*daːn, *tan
袒	*daːnʔ, *rdeːns
襢	*daːnʔ, *tanʔ, *tans
繵	*daːnʔ
膻	*daːnʔ
澶	*daːns, *djan
邅	*tan, *danʔ, *dans
鱣	*tan
饘	*tjan, *tjanʔ
旜	*tjan
氈	*tjan
鸇	*tjan
顫	*tjans
蟺	*djanʔ
擅	*djans
羶	*hljan
呾	*taːd, *ʔraːd
怛	*taːd
妲	*taːd
靼	*taːd, *tjad
炟	*taːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *djans) : semantic 手 (“hands”) + phonetic 亶 (OC *taːnʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shàn (shan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sin⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): siān

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shàn
    • Wade–Giles: shan⁴
    • Yale: shàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shann
    • Palladius: шань (šanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sin⁶
    • Yale: sihn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sin⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: xin⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːn²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siān
    • Tâi-lô: siān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sien
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɕiɛn²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiɛn⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiɛn²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕiɛn³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕiɛn³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /d͡ʑiᴇn^H/

Rime
Character	擅
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	時戰切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑiᴇnH/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑiɛnH/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑjænH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑianH/
Li Rong	/ʑiɛnH/
Wang Li	/ʑĭɛnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʑi̯ɛnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sin6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]a[n]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*djans/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	擅
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shàn
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyenH ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]a[n]-s/
English	act without authority
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	擅
Reading #	1/1
No.	2094
Phonetic component	旦
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	繕
Old Chinese	/*djans/

Definitions

擅

1. to hold all in one's hands; to monopolize
2. to own; to possess
3. to be good at
4. to do on one's own initiative; to do according to one's wishes

Compounds

不擅 擅作威福 擅便 擅入 (shànrù) 擅兵 擅改 擅用 擅自 (shànzì)

擅自作主 能歌擅舞 專擅／专擅 (zhuānshàn) 擅作主張／擅作主张 擅國／擅国 擅場／擅场 擅專／擅专

擅權／擅权 (shànquán) 擅變／擅变 擅長／擅长 (shàncháng) 擅離職守／擅离职守 攝威擅勢／摄威擅势 文擅彫龍／文擅雕龙 獨擅勝場／独擅胜场

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Japanese

Kanji

擅

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ぜん (zen)
• Kan-on: せん (sen)
• Kun: ほしいまま (hoshiimama, 擅)

Compounds

Compounds

• 擅権(せんけん) (senken)
• 擅恣(せんし) (senshi)
• 擅制(せんせい) (sensei)
• 擅断(せんだん) (sendan)
• 専擅(せんせん) (sensen)
• 独擅(どくせん) (dokusen)
  • 独擅場(どくせんじょう) (dokusenjō)

Adjective

擅(ほしいまま) • (hoshiimama) -na (adnominal 擅(ほしいまま)な (hoshiimama na), adverbial 擅(ほしいまま)に (hoshiimama ni))

1. selfish, at will
2. arbitrary

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

擅: Hán Nôm readings: chen, thiện

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