阡

阡 U+9621, 阡
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9621
← 阠
[U+9620] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 阢 →
[U+9622]

Translingual

Han character

阡 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 弓中竹十 (NLHJ), four-corner 72240, composition ⿰阝千)

  1. footpaths between fields
  2. paths

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1345, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41548
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1847, character 33
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4115, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+9621

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 阡

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 阡
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (人) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
千 *sn̥ʰiːn
仟 *sn̥ʰiːn
芊 *sn̥ʰiːn, *sn̥ʰiːns
阡 *sn̥ʰiːn
汘 *sn̥ʰiːn
迁 *sn̥ʰiːn
杄 *sn̥ʰiːn
人 *njin
仁 *njin
朲 *njin
佞 *neːŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sn̥ʰiːn): semantic 阜 (“soil mountain”) + phonetic 千 (OC *sn̥ʰiːn).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 阡
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 先 (85)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 蒼先切
Baxter tshen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡sʰen/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡sʰen/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡sʰɛn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/t͡sʰɛn/
Li
Rong 		/t͡sʰen/
Wang
Li 		/t͡sʰien/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/t͡sʰien/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		qiān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		cin1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 阡
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		qiān
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tshen ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[tsʰ]ˁi[n]/
English N-S path between fields

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 阡
Reading # 1/1
No. 10795
Phonetic
component 		人
Rime
group 		眞
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		千
Old
Chinese 		/*sn̥ʰiːn/

Definitions

阡

  1. (literary) footpath between fields going north to south
    Coordinate term: 陌 (mò)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

阡

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. (financial, archaic) thousand

Readings

  • Go-on: せん (sen)
  • Kan-on: せん (sen)
  • Kun: あぜ (aze, 阡)、はかみち (hakamichi, 阡)、みち (michi, 阡)

See also

Japanese numbers
NumberKanjiKanaRomaji
0零れい、ゼロrei, zero
1一、壱、弌、壹いちichi
2二、弐、貳、貮にni
3三、参さんsan
4四、肆よん、しyon, shi
5五、伍ごgo
6六、陸ろくroku
7七、漆なな、しちnana, shichi
8八、捌はちhachi
9九、玖きゅう、くkyū, ku
10十、拾じゅうjū
100百、陌、佰ひゃくhyaku
1,000千、阡、仟せんsen
10,000一万、万、一萬、萬いちまん、まんichiman, man
100,000,000一億、億いちおく、おくichioku, oku

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

阡: Hán Việt readings: thiên[1][2][3][4][5]
阡: Nôm readings: thiên[1][2]

  1. chữ Hán form of thiên (“bank of a rice paddy”)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nguyễn et al. (2009).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Trần (2004).
  3. ^ Trần (1999).
  4. ^ Nguyễn (1974).
  5. ^ Thiều Chửu (1942).
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