翦

翦 U+7FE6, 翦
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7FE6
← 翥
[U+7FE5] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 翧 →
[U+7FE7]

Translingual

Han character

翦 (radical 124 羽+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿月弓一 (TBNM), four-corner 80127, composition ⿱前羽)

  1. scissors
  2. cut, clip
  3. annihilate

References

  • KangXi: page 958, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28752
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1404, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3352, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+7FE6

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 翦

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (前) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
媊 *ʔslel, *ʔslenʔ
煎 *ʔslen, *ʔslens
湔 *ʔslen, *ʔslens, *ʔsleːn, *zleːn
鬋 *ʔslen, *ʔslenʔ, *ʔslens
剪 *ʔslenʔ
翦 *ʔslenʔ
譾 *ʔslenʔ
揃 *ʔslenʔ
箭 *ʔslens
葥 *ʔslens
前 *zleːn
騚 *zleːn
歬 *zleːn

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 翦 – see 剪 (“to cut”).
(This character, 翦, is a variant form of 剪.)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 翦
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 仙 (77)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 即淺切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡siᴇnX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡siɛnX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sjænX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sianX/
Li
Rong		 /t͡siɛnX/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sĭɛnX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡si̯ɛnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiǎn
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 翦
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiǎn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsjenX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ts][e][n]ʔ/
English cut (v.)

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 翦
Reading # 1/1
No. 10245
Phonetic
component		 前
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 翦
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔslenʔ/

Definitions

翦

  1. A surname​.

Japanese

Kanji

翦

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

翦 • (jeon) (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune–Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)

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