粲粲

Chinese

		beautiful; bright; splendid beautiful; bright; splendid; smilingly	beautiful; bright; splendid beautiful; bright; splendid; smilingly
trad. (粲粲)		粲	粲
simp. ^#(粲粲)		粲	粲

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): càncàn

(Zhuyin): ㄘㄢˋ ㄘㄢˋ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: càncàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄘㄢˋ ㄘㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: càncàn
  - Wade–Giles: tsʻan⁴-tsʻan⁴
  - Yale: tsàn-tsàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsanntsann
  - Palladius: цаньцань (canʹcanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰän⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡sʰän⁵¹/

Middle Chinese: tshanH tshanH

Rime
Character	粲
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	寒 (61)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	蒼案切
Baxter	tshanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰɑn^H/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰɑn^H/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰɑn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰan^H/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰɑn^H/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰɑn^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡sʰɑn^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	càn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	caan³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[tsʰ]ˤar-s [tsʰ]ˤar-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*sʰaːns sʰaːns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	粲
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	càn
Middle Chinese	‹ tshan^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[tsʰ]ˁar-s/
English	bright and white
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	粲
Reading #	1/1
No.	1119
Phonetic component	粲
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	粲
Old Chinese	/*sʰaːns/
Notes	聲符本歺又，粲爲去蕪取精，與之同源

Adjective

粲粲

(literary) bright; radiant
(literary) smiling; beaming
(literary) wide; vast

Japanese

Kanji in this term
粲	粲
さん Hyōgai	さん Hyōgai
on'yomi

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

【燦々さんさん】

[adjective] brilliant, bright

Alternative spellings
燦燦, 粲々

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