篆

篆	U+7BC6, 篆 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7BC6

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[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

Glyph origin

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

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

	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

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhuàn (zhuan⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): syun⁶
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): chhon

(Hailu, HRS): chon^ˇ

(Meixian, Guangdong): con⁴
Eastern Min (BUC): duông
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): doeng⁵ / dyoeng⁵ / duei⁵ / duinn⁵
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): toān / thoān / thoàn / choǎn

(Teochew, Peng'im): duang⁶
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶zoe

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 Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhon
  - Hakka Romanization System: con
  - Hagfa Pinyim: con⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰon⁵⁵/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: chon^ˇ
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡ʃʰon¹¹/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: con⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰɔn⁵³/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: duông
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tuɔŋ²⁴²/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: doeng⁵
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: dē̤ng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tœŋ¹¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: dyoeng⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tyøŋ²¹/
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: duei⁵
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: dōiⁿ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tuei¹¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: duinn⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tũĩ²¹/

Note:

doeng5/dyoeng5 - literally;
duei5/duinn5 - vernacular.

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/

Dialectal data

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/
Hui	Tunxi	/t͡ɕʰyɛ¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡ɕyẽ⁵⁵/
Xiang	Xiangtan	/t͡ɕyẽ⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡sʰɵn²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/t͡sʰon⁵³/
Hakka	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/

Middle Chinese: drjwenX

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	/ɖˠiuᴇn^X/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖʷᵚiɛn^X/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡiuæn^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖwian^X/
Li Rong	/ȡjuɛn^X/
Wang Li	/ȡĭwɛn^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȡʱi̯wɛn^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhuàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zyun⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*l'onʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	篆
Reading #	1/1
No.	12523
Phonetic component	彖
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*l'onʔ/

Definitions

篆

seal script
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 (zhuàn'é)
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

篆

(Hyōgai kanji)

seal script

Readings

Go-on: でん (den)
Kan-on: てん (ten)
Kun: こしきしば (koshikishiba)

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)

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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