椽

椽

椽 U+693D, 椽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-693D ← 椼 [U+693C] CJK Unified Ideographs 椾 → [U+693E]

Translingual

Han character

椽 (radical 75, 木+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 木女弓人 (DVNO), four-corner 4793₂, composition ⿰木彖)

Derived characters

• 𭏷

References

• KangXi: page 538, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15087
• Dae Jaweon: page 925, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1259, character 2
• Unihan data for U+693D

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		椽

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (彖) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
蠡	*reːlʔ, *rel, *roːl
盠	*reːlʔ, *reːl
彖	*l̥ʰjelʔ, *hljelʔ, *l̥ʰoːns
墬	*l'els
喙	*hlods, *l̥ʰjods
餯	*hlods
剶	*ʔslon, *l̥ʰon
猭	*l̥ʰon, *l̥ʰons
鶨	*l̥ʰons, *l'uːns
椽	*l'on
篆	*l'onʔ
瑑	*l'onʔ
堟	*l'onʔ
蝝	*lon
緣	*lon, *lons
櫞	*lon
掾	*lons
褖	*l̥ʰoːns
湪	*l̥ʰoːns

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chuán (chuan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): thoân / iân

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: chuán
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄢˊ
    • Wade–Giles: ch'uan²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chwan
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cyun⁴
    • Yale: chyùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: qun⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃʰyːn²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thoân
    • Tâi-lô: thuân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: toaan
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰuan¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /tʰuan²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iân
    • Tâi-lô: iân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ieen
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɛn²³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /iɛn²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɖˠiuᴇn/▼

Rime
Character	椽
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	仙 (80)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	Chongniu III
Fanqie	直攣切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖˠiuᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖʷᵚiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡiuæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖwian/
Li Rong	/ȡjuɛn/
Wang Li	/ȡĭwɛn/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȡʱi̯wɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chuán

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lron/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'on/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	椽
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chuán
Middle Chinese	‹ drjwen ›
Old Chinese	/*lron/
English	beam, rafter
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	椽
Reading #	1/1
No.	12522
Phonetic component	彖
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	椽
Old Chinese	/*l'on/

Definitions

椽

1. beams, rafters, supports

Compounds

一椽 椽子 (chuánzi) 椽柱

椽桷 椽櫪／椽枥 椽筆／椽笔

榱椽 陳椽／陈椽

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Japanese

Kanji

椽

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: でん (den)
• Kan-on: てん (ten)
• Kun: たるき (taruki)

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Korean

Hanja

椽 • (yeon, jeon) (hangeul 연, 전, revised yeon, jeon, McCune–Reischauer yŏn, chŏn, Yale yen, cen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

椽 (duyên)

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References

• Nom Foundation