茜

茜	U+831C, 茜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-831C

← 茛
[U+831B]

CJK Unified Ideographs

茝 →
[U+831D]

Translingual

Han character

茜 (radical 140 艸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿一金田 (TMCW), four-corner 4460₁, composition ⿱艹西)

Derived characters

𣺋

References

KangXi: page 1027, character 28
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30871
Dae Jaweon: page 1486, character 24
Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3200, character 12
Unihan data for U+831C

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (西) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
粞	sɯːl, sɯːl
洒	sraːls, sɯːlʔ
西	*sɯːl
卤	*sɯːl
卥	*sɯːl
栖	sɯːl, sɯːls
茜	*sʰɯːns
哂	*hjɯnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sʰɯːns) : semantic 艸 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 西 (OC *sɯːl).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		茜

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): qiàn (qian⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sin³, sin⁶
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): chhiàn

(Teochew, Peng'im): cêng³ / ciang³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: qiàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢˋ
  - Wade–Giles: ch'ien⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiann
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: sin³, sin⁶
  - Yale: sin, sihn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sin³, sin⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: xin³, xin⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /siːn³³/, /siːn²²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiàn
  - Tâi-lô: tshiàn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: chiexn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕʰiɛn²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕʰiɛn⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰiɛn²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕʰiɛn¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕʰiɛn²¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: cêng³ / ciang³
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshèng / tshiàng
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰeŋ²¹³/, /t͡sʰiaŋ²¹³/

Middle Chinese: /t͡sʰen^H/▼

Rime
Character	茜
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	倉甸切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰen^H/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰen^H/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰɛn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰɛn^H/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰen^H/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰien^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰien^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qiàn

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*sʰɯːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	茜
Reading #	1/1
No.	13243
Phonetic component	西
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	蒨
Old Chinese	/*sʰɯːns/

Definitions

茜

Compounds

茜素 (qiànsù)

茜草 (qiàncǎo)

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		茜

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sai¹
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): se

(Teochew, Peng'im): si¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: xī
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
  - Wade–Giles: hsih¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
  - IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: sai¹
  - Yale: sāi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sai¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: sei¹
  - IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: se
  - Tâi-lô: se
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sef
  - IPA (Xiamen): /se⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /se³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /se⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /se⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /se⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: si¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: si
  - IPA ^(key): /si³³/

Definitions

茜

Used in people's names, especially in transliteration of female names.

Etymology 3

simp. and trad.		茜

Variant of 荽.

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): sai¹

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: sai¹
  - Yale: sāi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sai¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: sei¹
  - IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

茜

Only used in 芫茜.

Japanese

Kanji

茜

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

madder (plant)
madder red

Readings

Goon: せん (sen)
Kan’on: せん (sen)
Kun: あかね (akane, 茜)

Etymology

Combination of 赤 (aka) and 根 (ne).

Noun

茜 (hiragana あかね, katakana アカネ, rōmaji akane)

madder (plant)

Proper noun

茜 (hiragana あかね, rōmaji Akane)

A female given name

Vietnamese

Han character

茜 (thiến)

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