旃

旃 (Kangxi radical 70, 方+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜尸人月卜 (YSOBY), four-corner 0824₇, composition ⿸𭤨丹)

1. silk banner with bent pole

• KangXi: page 482, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13640
• Dae Jaweon: page 844, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2178, character 4
• Unihan data for U+65C3

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tjan) : semantic 㫃 + phonetic 丹 (OC *taːn)

旃

1. a kind of banner
2. (obsolete) Alternative form of 氈／毡 (zhān, “felt”).
3. (literary, obsolete) Contraction of 之焉 (zhī yān).

   • 人之為言，苟亦無信。舍旃舍旃，苟亦無然。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     人之为言，苟亦无信。舍旃舍旃，苟亦无然。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Rén zhī wéi yán, gǒu yì wú xìn. Shě zhān shě zhān, gǒu yì wú rán. [Pinyin]

     When men tell their stories, // Do not readily believe them;
     Put them aside, put them aside. // Do not readily assent to them.

   • 方當盛漢之隆，願勉旃，毋多談！ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     方当盛汉之隆，愿勉旃，毋多谈！ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Book of Han, circa 1^st century CE

     Fāng dāng shèng Hàn zhī lóng, yuàn miǎn zhān, wú duōtán! [Pinyin]

     Now we happen to live in this great era of Han, a time of prosperity. May you strive for your part in it (as a state official), and stop meddling in my business!

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• Go-on: せん (sen)
• Kan-on: せん (sen)
• Kun: はた (hata)

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

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