擅

擅	U+64C5, 擅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-64C5

← 擄
[U+64C4]

CJK Unified Ideographs

擆 →
[U+64C6]

Translingual

Han character

擅 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 手卜田一 (QYWM), four-corner 5001₆, composition ⿰扌亶)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 457, character 34
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12790
Dae Jaweon: page 806, character 16
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1971, character 4
Unihan data for U+64C5

Chinese

simp. and trad.		擅
2nd round simp.		𢩳

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 擅
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
皽	tjaʀ, tanʔ, *tjanʔ
担	*taːnʔ
胆	daːn, daːn
疸	taːnʔ, taːns
觛	taːnʔ, taːns, *daːnʔ
亶	*taːnʔ
嬗	taːnʔ, tʰaːn, *djans
笪	taːnʔ, taːns, *taːd
狚	taːnʔ, taːns, *taːd
旦	*taːns
鴠	*taːns
譠	tʰaːn, rteːn
坦	*tʰaːnʔ
但	daːn, daːnʔ, *daːns
檀	*daːn
壇	*daːn
儃	daːn, djan
驙	daːn, tan
袒	daːnʔ, rdeːns
襢	daːnʔ, tanʔ, *tans
繵	*daːnʔ
膻	*daːnʔ
澶	daːns, djan
邅	tan, danʔ, *dans
鱣	*tan
饘	tjan, tjanʔ
旜	*tjan
氈	*tjan
鸇	*tjan
顫	*tjans
蟺	*djanʔ
擅	*djans
羶	*hljan
呾	taːd, ʔraːd
怛	*taːd
妲	*taːd
靼	taːd, tjad
炟	*taːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *djans): semantic 手 (“hands”) + phonetic 亶 (OC *taːnʔ).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shàn (shan⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sin⁶
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siān

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shàn
  - Wade–Giles: shan⁴
  - Yale: shàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shann
  - Palladius: шань (šanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂän⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: sin⁶
  - Yale: sihn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sin⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: xin⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːn²²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siān
  - Tâi-lô: siān
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sien
  - IPA (Xiamen): /siɛn²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /siɛn⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɛn²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /siɛn³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɛn³³/

Middle Chinese: dzyenH

Rime
Character	擅
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	時戰切
Baxter	dzyenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑiᴇn^H/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑiɛn^H/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑjæn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑian^H/
Li Rong	/ʑiɛn^H/
Wang Li	/ʑĭɛn^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʑi̯ɛn^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sin⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]a[n]-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*djans/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	擅
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shàn
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyen^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]a[n]-s/
English	act without authority
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	擅
Reading #	1/1
No.	2094
Phonetic component	旦
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	繕
Old Chinese	/*djans/

Definitions

擅

to hold all in one's hands; to monopolize
to own; to possess
to be good at
to do on one's own initiative; to do according to one's wishes

Compounds

不擅
專擅 / 专擅 (zhuānshàn)
擅作主張 / 擅作主张
擅作威福
擅便
擅入 (shànrù)
擅兵
擅國 / 擅国
擅場 / 擅场
擅專 / 擅专
擅改
擅權 / 擅权 (shànquán)
擅用
擅自 (shànzì)
擅自作主
擅變 / 擅变
擅長 / 擅长 (shàncháng)
擅離職守 / 擅离职守
攝威擅勢 / 摄威擅势
文擅彫龍 / 文擅雕龙
獨擅勝場 / 独擅胜场
能歌擅舞

Japanese

Kanji

擅

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: ぜん (zen)
Kan-on: せん (sen)
Kun: ほしいまま (hoshiimama, 擅)

Compounds

擅権(せんけん) (senken)
擅恣(せんし) (senshi)
擅制(せんせい) (sensei)
擅断(せんだん) (sendan)
専擅(せんせん) (sensen)
独擅(どくせん) (dokusen)
- 独擅場(どくせんじょう) (dokusenjō)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
擅
せん Hyōgai
kan'on

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Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [sẽ̞ɴ]

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Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 擅 – see the following entry.

【縦ほしいまま】6

[adjective] selfish, at will

[adjective] arbitrary

Alternative spellings
恣, 欲しい儘, 欲しい侭, 肆

(This term, 擅, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

擅 • (cheon) (hangeul 천, revised cheon, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏn, Yale chen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

擅: Hán Nôm readings: chen, thiện

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