筍

筍

See also: 笋

筍 U+7B4D, 筍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B4D ← 筌 [U+7B4C] CJK Unified Ideographs 筎 → [U+7B4E]

Translingual

Han character

筍 (radical 118, 竹+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹心日 (HPA) or X竹心日 (XHPA), four-corner 8862₇, composition ⿱⺮旬)

References

• KangXi: page 883, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25997
• Dae Jaweon: page 1312, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2969, character 2
• Unihan data for U+7B4D

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Chinese

trad.		筍
simp.		笋

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 筍
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (匀) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
枃	*skins
笉	*skʰinʔ
郇	*ɡʷreːn, *sqʰʷin
絢	*qʰʷiːns
眴	*qʰʷiːns, *ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷin, *qʰʷjins, *ŋʷjin
盷	*ɡʷiːn
訇	*ɡʷiːn, *qʰʷreːŋ
迿	*ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷins
姰	*ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷin
畇	*l'iːŋ, *sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin, *ɢʷin
荀	*sqʰʷin
詢	*sqʰʷin
洵	*sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin
恂	*sqʰʷin
峋	*sqʰʷin
珣	*sqʰʷin
槆	*sqʰʷin
筍	*sqʰʷinʔ
箰	*sqʰʷinʔ
旬	*sɢʷin
殉	*sɢʷins
徇	*sɢʷins
侚	*sɢʷins
均	*kʷin
鈞	*kʷin
袀	*kʷin
汮	*kʷin, *kʷrin
呁	*kʷins
筠	*ɡʷin
荺	*ɢʷin, *ɡʷinʔ
匀
韵	*ɢʷins
輷	*qʰʷreːŋ, *qʰʷreːŋs
揈	*qʰʷreːŋ
鍧	*qʰʷreːŋ
渹	*qʰʷreːŋ
赹	*ɡʷeŋ
憌	*ɡʷeŋ
惸	*ɡʷeŋ
咰	*sqʰʷrid

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sǔn (sun³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seon²
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): sún

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sung²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: sǔn
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄣˇ
    • Wade–Giles: sun³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: soen
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sǔn
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /swən²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: seon²
    • Yale: séun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soen²
    • Guangdong Romanization: sên²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵn³⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sún
    • Tâi-lô: sún
    • Phofsit Daibuun: suon
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sun⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sun⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sun⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sun⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sun⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: sung²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: súng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /suŋ⁵²/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 筍
Mandarin	Beijing	/suən²¹⁴/
	Harbin	/suən²¹³/
	Tianjin	/suən¹³/
	Jinan	/ɕyẽ⁵⁵/
	Qingdao	/syə̃⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/syn⁵³/
	Xi'an	/suẽ⁵³/
	Xining	/suə̃⁵³/
	Yinchuan	/suŋ⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/sũn⁴⁴²/
	Ürümqi	/suŋ⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/sən⁴²/
	Chengdu	/sən⁵³/
	Guiyang	/sen⁴²/
	Kunming	/suə̃⁵³/
	Nanjing	/sun²¹²/
	Hefei	/sən⁵⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/suəŋ⁵³/
	Pingyao	/suŋ⁵³/
	Hohhot	/sũŋ⁵³/
Wu	Shanghai	/səŋ³⁵/
	Suzhou	/sən⁵¹/
	Hangzhou	/sz̩ʷen⁵³/
	Wenzhou	/ɕoŋ³⁵/
Hui	Shexian	/sʌ̃³⁵/
	Tunxi	/sin³¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/sən⁴¹/
	Xiangtan	/dən⁴²/
Gan	Nanchang	/sun²¹³/
Hakka	Meixian	/sun³¹/
	Taoyuan	/sun³¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/søn³⁵/
	Nanning	/ɬɐn³⁵/ /ɬyn³⁵/
	Hong Kong	/søn³⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/sun⁵³/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/suŋ³²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/sœyŋ²¹/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/suŋ⁵³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/tun²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /siuɪn^X/▼

Rime
Character	筍
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	思尹切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siuɪnX/
Pan Wuyun	/sʷinX/
Shao Rongfen	/sjuenX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/swinX/
Li Rong	/siuĕnX/
Wang Li	/sĭuĕnX/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯uĕnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xǔn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-qʷi[n]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sqʰʷinʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	筍
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	sǔn
Middle Chinese	‹ swinX ›
Old Chinese	/*s-qʷi[n]ʔ/
English	bamboo sprouts
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	筍
Reading #	1/1
No.	16392
Phonetic component	匀
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	筍
Old Chinese	/*sqʰʷinʔ/

Definitions

筍

1. bamboo shoot
2. (Cantonese, slang) very good; get something without paying its actual value.

Compounds

冬筍／冬笋 (dōngsǔn) 孟宗泣筍／孟宗泣笋 接筍／接笋 春筍／春笋 春筍怒發／春笋怒发 毛筍／毛笋 玉筍／玉笋 石筍／石笋 (shísǔn, “stalagmite”) 竹筍／竹笋 (zhúsǔn, “bamboo shoot”) 筍乾／笋干 (sǔngān) 筍子／笋子 (sǔnzi)

筍尖／笋尖 筍席／笋席 筍條／笋条 筍皮／笋皮 筍眼／笋眼 筍脯／笋脯 筍虡／笋虡 筍螺／笋螺 筍輿／笋舆 筍雞／笋鸡

筍鞋／笋鞋 筍鞭／笋鞭 筍鴨／笋鸭 綠竹筍／绿竹笋 苞筍／苞笋 茭白筍／茭白笋 萵筍／莴笋 (wōsǔn, “asparagus lettuce”) 蘆筍／芦笋 (lúsǔn, “asparagus”) 雨後春筍／雨后春笋 (yǔhòuchūnsǔn) 麻竹筍／麻竹笋

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Kanji

筍

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: しゅん (shun)^{←しゆん (syun, historical)}
• Kan-on: しゅん (shun)^{←しゆん (syun, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: じゅん (jun)^{←じゆん (zyun, historical)}
• Kun: たけのこ (takenoko, 筍)

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Korean

Hanja

筍 • (sun) (hangeul 순, revised sun, McCune–Reischauer sun, Yale swun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

筍 (duẩn)

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