苮

苮	U+82EE, 苮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82EE

← 苭
[U+82ED]

CJK Unified Ideographs

苯 →
[U+82EF]

Translingual

Han character

苮 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿人山 (TOU), composition ⿱艹仙)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1024, character 8
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30805
Dae Jaweon: page 1484, character 1
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3193, character 14
Unihan data for U+82EE

Chinese

trad.		苮
simp. ^#		苮

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
山	*sreːn
疝	sreːn, sraːns
邖	*sreːn
汕	sreːnʔ, sraːns
訕	sraːn, sraːns
仙	*sen
秈	*sen
苮	*sen
屾	*srin

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xiān (xian¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xiān
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sian
  - Wade–Giles: hsien¹
  - Yale: syān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shian
  - Palladius: сянь (sjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: sjen

Rime
Character	苮
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	相然切
Baxter	sjen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/siɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/sjæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sian/
Li Rong	/siɛn/
Wang Li	/sĭɛn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/si̯ɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sin¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*sen/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	苮
Reading #	1/1
No.	11062
Phonetic component	山
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	仙
Old Chinese	/*sen/

Definitions

苮

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) a kind of grass which can be woven into mats