篆

篆

篆 U+7BC6, 篆 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7BC6 ← 篅 [U+7BC5] CJK Unified Ideographs 篇 → [U+7BC7]

篆 U+2F962, 篆 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F962 ← 𥮫 [U+2F961] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 築 → [U+2F963]

Translingual

Han character

篆 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹女弓人 (HVNO), four-corner 8823₂, composition ⿱𥫗彖)

Derived characters

• 𢸢, 𤪪, 𥌫

References

• KangXi: page 892, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26256
• Dae Jaweon: page 1319, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2996, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7BC6
• Unihan data for U+2F962

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Chinese

trad.		篆
simp. #		篆

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 篆
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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): zhuàn (zhuan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syun⁶
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): chhon

  (Meixian, Guangdong): con⁴

• Min Dong (BUC): duông
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): toān / thoān / thoàn / choǎn

  (Teochew, Peng'im): duang⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhuàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhuàn
    • Wade–Giles: chuan⁴
    • Yale: jwàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juann
    • Palladius: чжуань (čžuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂwän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: syun⁶
    • Yale: syuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: syn⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: xun⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʃyːn²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhon
    • Hakka Romanization System: con
    • Hagfa Pinyim: con⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰon⁵⁵/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: con⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰɔn⁵³/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: duông
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tuɔŋ²⁴²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: toān
    • Tâi-lô: tuān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doan
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tuan³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tuan²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tuan⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thoān
    • Tâi-lô: thuān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: toan
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰuan⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tʰuan²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tʰuan³³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, variant in Taiwan, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thoàn
    • Tâi-lô: thuàn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: toaxn
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰuan⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰuan¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /tʰuan²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: choǎn
    • Tâi-lô: tsuǎn
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡suan²²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: duang⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tuăng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tuaŋ³⁵/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 篆
Mandarin	Beijing	/ʈ͡ʂuan⁵¹/
	Harbin	/ʈ͡ʂuan⁵³/
	Tianjin	/ʈ͡ʂuan⁵³/ /t͡suan⁵³/
	Jinan	/ʈ͡ʂuã²¹/
	Qingdao	/ʈ͡ʂuã⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/ʈ͡ʂuan³¹²/
	Xi'an	/p͡fã⁴⁴/
	Xining	/ʈ͡ʂuã²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/ʈ͡ʂuan¹³/
	Lanzhou	/p͡fɛ̃n¹³/
	Ürümqi	/ʈ͡ʂuan²¹³/
	Wuhan	/tuan³⁵/
	Chengdu	/t͡suan¹³/
	Guiyang	/t͡suan²¹³/
	Kunming	/ʈ͡ʂuã̠²¹²/
	Nanjing	/ʈ͡ʂuaŋ⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/ʈ͡ʂʊ̃⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡suæ̃⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/t͡suɑŋ³⁵/
	Hohhot	/t͡suæ̃⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/zø²³/
	Suzhou	/zø³¹/
	Hangzhou	/d͡zz̩ʷõ¹³/
	Wenzhou	/d͡ʑy³⁵/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡ɕʰye²²/
	Tunxi	/t͡ɕʰyɛ¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡ɕyẽ⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/t͡ɕyẽ⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡sʰɵn²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/t͡sʰon⁵³/
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/syn³³/
	Nanning	/syn²²/
	Hong Kong	/syn³³/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/tʰuan²²/ /tʰuan²¹/ 俗
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/tuɔŋ²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/tuiŋ⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/tuaŋ³⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/huaŋ³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɖˠiuᴇn^X/

Rime
Character	篆
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	仙 (80)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	持兖切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖˠiuᴇnX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖʷᵚiɛnX/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡiuænX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖwianX/
Li Rong	/ȡjuɛnX/
Wang Li	/ȡĭwɛnX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȡʱi̯wɛnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhuàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zyun6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'onʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	篆
Reading #	1/1
No.	12523
Phonetic component	彖
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	篆
Old Chinese	/*l'onʔ/

Definitions

篆

1. seal script
2. seal, official stamp

Compounds

二篆 填篆 大篆 (dàzhuàn) 小篆 (xiǎozhuàn) 感篆 次篆 瓦棺篆鼎 秦篆 (qínzhuàn) 符篆 篆刻 (zhuànkè) 篆愁君

篆文 (zhuànwén) 篆香 草篆 蛟篆 香篆 九疊篆／九叠篆 彫蟲篆刻／雕虫篆刻 攝篆／摄篆 篆書／篆书 (zhuànshū) 篆煙／篆烟 篆額／篆额

繆篆／缪篆 蕭行范篆／萧行范篆 蝸篆／蜗篆 蟲篆／虫篆 (chóngzhuàn) 蟲篆之技／虫篆之技 銘篆／铭篆 隸篆／隶篆 雕蟲篆／雕虫篆 雕蟲篆刻／雕虫篆刻 鳥篆／鸟篆 龍章鳳篆／龙章凤篆

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Japanese

Kanji

篆

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. seal script

Readings

• Go-on: でん (den)
• Kan-on: てん (ten)
• Kun: こしきしば (koshikishiba)

Compounds

Compounds

• 篆額(てんがく) (tengaku)
• 篆刻(てんこく) (tenkoku)
• 篆字(てんじ) (tenji)
• 篆書(てんしょ) (tensho)
• 篆文(てんぶん) (tenbun)
• 篆隷(てんれい) (tenrei)
• 印篆(いんてん) (inten)
• 小篆(しょうてん) (shōten)
• 大篆(だいてん) (daiten)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
篆
てん Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 篆 (MC ɖˠiuᴇn^X).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) て​ん [téꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [tẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

篆(てん) • (ten) 

1. seal script

   Synonym: 篆書 (tensho)

   • 1902, 金子晋, editor, 日本事物起原, 青山堂書房, page 144:

     隷書(れいしょ)は篆(てん)の捷(はや)きものなり

     Reisho wa ten no hayaki mono nari

     Clerical script is a quicker variation of seal script.

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Korean

Hanja

篆 • (jeon) (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune–Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

篆: Hán Nôm readings: triện, chệnh, chệ, triển

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