潸

潸 U+6F78, 潸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6F78 ← 潷 [U+6F77] CJK Unified Ideographs 潹 → [U+6F79]

Translingual

Han character

潸 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 水木木月 (EDDB), four-corner 3412₇, composition ⿰氵⿱林月)

Derived characters

• 𩆤

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 651, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18293
• Dae Jaweon: page 1061, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1737, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6F78

Chinese

trad.		潸
simp. #		潸
alternative forms		澘

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
散	*saːnʔ, *saːns
糤	*saːnʔ
繖	*saːnʔ, *saːns
饊	*saːnʔ
鏾	*saːnʔ
潸	*sraːn, *sraːnʔ
霰	*sqʰeːns
撒	*saːd

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shān (shan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saan¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): san

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shān
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shan
    • Wade–Giles: shan¹
    • Yale: shān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shan
    • Palladius: шань (šanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: saan¹
    • Yale: sāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: san¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːn⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: san
    • Tâi-lô: san
    • Phofsit Daibuun: safn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /san⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /san³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /san⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /san⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /san⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: sraen, sraenX

Rime
Character	潸	潸
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	生 (21)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	刪 (69)	刪 (69)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	II
Fanqie	所姦切	數板切
Baxter	sraen	sraenX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʃˠan/	/ʃˠanX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʃᵚan/	/ʃᵚanX/
Shao Rongfen	/ʃɐn/	/ʃɐnX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʂaɨn/	/ʂaɨnX/
Li Rong	/ʃan/	/ʃanX/
Wang Li	/ʃan/	/ʃanX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʂan/	/ʂanX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shān	shǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	saan1	saan2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]ˤra[n]/, /*[s]ra[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sraːn/, /*sraːnʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	潸	潸
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shān	shān
Middle Chinese	‹ sræn ›	‹ srɛn ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]ˁra[n]/	/*[s]ra[n]/
English	tears flowing	tears flowing
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	潸	潸
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	10974	10975
Phonetic component	散	散
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	刪	潸
Old Chinese	/*sraːn/	/*sraːnʔ/

Definitions

潸

1. (literary) tearful
2. (literary) to shed tears

Compounds

• 潸泫
• 潸潸 (shānshān)
• 潸然 (shānrán)
• 潸然淚下 / 潸然泪下

 

Japanese

Kanji

潸

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): さん (san)

Korean

Hanja

潸 • (san) (hangeul 산, revised san, McCune–Reischauer san, Yale san)

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