纖

See also: 纤
纖 U+7E96, 纖
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E96
← 纕
[U+7E95]
CJK Unified Ideographs 纗 →
[U+7E97]

Translingual

Traditional 纖
Shinjitai 繊
Simplified 纤

Han character

纖 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+17, 23 strokes, cangjie input 女火人戈一 (VFOIM), four-corner 23950, composition ⿰糹韱)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 943, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28072
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1383, character 28
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3469, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+7E96

Chinese

trad. 纖
simp. 纤*
alternative forms 纎
䊹
䑎
孅
綅/𰬞

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sem) : semantic 糸 (“silk”) + phonetic 韱 (OC *sem)

Pronunciation 1


Note:
  • siam - literary;
  • chhiam - vernacular.

Rime
Character 纖
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 鹽 (153)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 息廉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/siᴇm/
Pan
Wuyun
/siɛm/
Shao
Rongfen
/sjæm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/siam/
Li
Rong
/siɛm/
Wang
Li
/sĭɛm/
Bernard
Karlgren
/si̯ɛm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
sim1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 纖
Reading # 1/1
No. 13484
Phonetic
component
韱
Rime
group
談
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
銛
Old
Chinese
/*sem/

Definitions

纖

  1. finely-woven silk
  2. fine; delicate
  3. minute
  4. graceful; slender
  5. stingy; frugal
  6. fiber
  7. (Buddhism) the number 10-7

Compounds

Pronunciation 2


Definitions

纖

  1. † to stab; to prick
  2. † sharp; pointed
  3. † Alternative form of 籤/签 (qiān, “bamboo slips”).

Japanese

Shinjitai

繊

Kyūjitai

纖

Kanji

纖

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 繊)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): せん (sen)
  • Kun: ほそい (hosoi, 纖い); ちいさい (chīsai, 纖さい); しなやか (shinayaka, 纖やか)

Korean

Hanja

纖 • (seom) (hangeul 섬, revised seom, McCune–Reischauer sŏm, Yale sem)

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Vietnamese

Han character

纖 (tiêm, tươm, thin, thên)

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