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 Dictionary: 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

Chinese

trad.		篆
simp. #		篆

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 篆書 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• 篆書 (Cantonese)
• Diông-cṳ̆ (Eastern Min)
• Thoàn-su (Southern Min)
• Seal script (English)

Glyph origin

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

	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

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

Pronunciation

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 (Hokkien)	/tʰuan²²/ /tʰuan²¹/ 俗
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/tuɔŋ²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/tuiŋ⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/tuaŋ³⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/huaŋ³⁵/

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
Baxter	drjwenX
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

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/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhuàn (zhuan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syun⁶
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): chhon

  (Meixian, Guangdong): con⁴

• Eastern Min (BUC): duông
• Southern Min

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

  (Teochew, Peng'im): duang⁶

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶zoe

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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): /ʈ͡ʂu̯än⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: syun⁶
    • Yale: syuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: syn⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: xun⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /syːn²²/
• 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/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: duông
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tuɔŋ²⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (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/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶zoe
    • MiniDict: zoe^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³zoe
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zø²³/

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• Dialectal data

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• Middle Chinese: drjwenX

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'onʔ/

Definitions

篆

1. seal script
2. seal, official stamp

Compounds

• 九疊篆／九叠篆
• 二篆
• 填篆
• 大篆 (dàzhuàn)
• 小篆 (xiǎozhuàn)
• 彫蟲篆刻／雕虫篆刻
• 感篆
• 攝篆／摄篆
• 次篆
• 瓦棺篆鼎
• 秦篆 (qínzhuàn)
• 符篆
• 篆刻 (zhuànkè)
• 篆愁君
• 篆文 (zhuànwén)
• 篆書／篆书 (zhuànshū)
• 篆煙／篆烟
• 篆額／篆额
• 篆香
• 繆篆／缪篆
• 草篆
• 蕭行范篆
• 蛟篆
• 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
• 香篆
• 鳥篆／鸟篆
• 龍章鳳篆／龙章凤篆

 

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 篆

篆

(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 Hyōgai
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 篆 (MC drjwenX).

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.

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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