櫼

櫼 U+6AFC, 櫼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6AFC ← 櫻 [U+6AFB] CJK Unified Ideographs 櫽 → [U+6AFD]

Translingual

Han character

櫼 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+17, 21 strokes, cangjie input 木人戈一 (DOIM), four-corner 5395₀, composition ⿰木韱)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 562, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15889
• Dae Jaweon: page 951, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1321, character 9
• Unihan data for U+6AFC

Chinese

simp. and trad.		櫼

Glyph origin

	Old Chinese
讖	*sʰrims
攕	*sreːm
櫼	*sreːm, *ʔsem
懺	*sʰraːms
殲	*ʔsem
瀸	*ʔsem
鑯	*ʔsem
虃	*ʔslem
籤	*sʰem
韯	*sem
纖	*sem
孅	*sem
韱	*sem
襳	*sem, *srem, *srim

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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	櫼
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	咸 (151)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	所咸切
Baxter	sream
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʃˠɛm/
Pan Wuyun	/ʃᵚæm/
Shao Rongfen	/ʃɐm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʂəɨm/
Li Rong	/ʃɐm/
Wang Li	/ʃɐm/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʂăm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	saam1

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	櫼	櫼
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	13475	13480
Phonetic component	韱	韱
Rime group	談	談
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	攕	尖
Old Chinese	/*sreːm/	/*ʔsem/
Notes	同杉，説文又義音尖

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiān (jian¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cim¹ / zim¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chiⁿ / chiam

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiān
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jian
    • Wade–Giles: chien¹
    • Yale: jyān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jian
    • Palladius: цзянь (czjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: cim¹ / zim¹
    • Yale: chīm / jīm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsim¹ / dzim¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: qim¹ / jim¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːm⁵⁵/, /t͡siːm⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tsinn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cvy
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sĩ³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sĩ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiam
    • Tâi-lô: tsiam
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciafm
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siam³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡siam⁴⁴/

Note:

• chiⁿ - vernacular (“wooden wedge; to shove something; to hit vigorously”);
• chiam - literary.

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• Middle Chinese: sream

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sreːm/, /*ʔsem/

Definitions

櫼

1. (literary or dialectal) wedge (usually wooden, especially wedged in the mortise and tenon joints)

   柴櫼 [Hokkien]  ―  chhâ chiⁿ [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  wooden wedge

   榫頭鬆了就加個櫼。 [MSC, trad.]
   榫头松了就加个櫼。 [MSC, simp.]

   Sǔntóu sōng le jiù jiā ge jiān. [Pinyin]

   The tenon is loose, so we should add a wooden wdge.

2. (literary, by extension) thin strips of bamboo or wood
3. (Hokkien) to shove something into something else
   1. (dialectal) to drive a wedge, peg, stopper, etc.
4. (Xiamen and Quanzhou Hokkien) to hit vigorously (with one's fist or feet)

Compounds

• 實櫼 / 实櫼
• 斧頭櫼仔 / 斧头櫼仔
• 櫼仔
• 櫼櫨 / 櫼栌
• 櫼油

References

• “櫼”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

櫼

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): せん (sen)、しん (shin)、さん (san)
• Kun: くさび (kusabi)

Korean

Hanja

櫼 • (cheom) (hangeul 첨, revised cheom, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏm, Yale chem)

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