賤

See also: 贱 and 賎
賤 U+8CE4, 賤
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8CE4
← 賣
[U+8CE3] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 賥 →
[U+8CE5]

Translingual

Traditional 賤
Shinjitai
(extended)		 賎
Simplified 贱

Han character

賤 (radical 154, 貝+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 月金戈戈 (BCII), four-corner 63853, composition ⿰貝戔)

References

  • KangXi: page 1209, character 35
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36826
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1675, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3647, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+8CE4

Chinese

trad. 賤
simp. 贱

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (戔) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
殘 *zlaːn, *zaːns
戔 *zlaːn
帴 *zlaːn, *saːns, *ʔslenʔ, *ʔsleːn, *sreːd
虥 *zreːn, *zreːn, *zreːnʔ, *zraːns
盞 *ʔsreːnʔ
醆 *ʔsreːnʔ, *ʔljenʔ
琖 *ʔsreːnʔ
剗 *sʰreːnʔ
棧 *zreːnʔ, *zraːns, *zrenʔ
輚 *zreːnʔ, *zraːns
嶘 *zreːnʔ
錢 *ʔslenʔ, *zlen
俴 *ʔslenʔ, *zlenʔ
籛 *ʔslenʔ, *ʔslens, *ʔsleːn
淺 *sʰlenʔ, *ʔsleːn
濺 *ʔsens, *ʔseːn
踐 *zlenʔ
諓 *zlenʔ, *zlens
餞 *zlenʔ, *zlens
賤 *zlens
綫 *slens
箋 *ʔsleːn
牋 *ʔsleːn

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *zlens) : semantic 貝 + phonetic 戔 (OC *zlaːn).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 賤
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 從 (15)
Final (韻) 仙 (77)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 才線切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ziᴇnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡ziɛnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡zjænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡zianH/
Li
Rong		 /d͡ziɛnH/
Wang
Li		 /d͡zĭɛnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /d͡zʱi̯ɛnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiàn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 賤
Reading # 1/1
No. 6008
Phonetic
component		 戔
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 賤
Old
Chinese		 /*zlens/

Definitions

賤

  1. cheap; inexpensive
  2. lowly; low-ranking; poor; plebeian
  3. bad; inferior; poor
  4. mean; base; despicable; obnoxious
  5. (humble) my
  6. (Min) naughty; restless
  7. to look down upon; to despise
  8. to hate; to detest
  9. A surname​.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 便宜 (“cheap”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 便宜、低廉
Mandarin Beijing 便宜、賤
Taiwan 便宜
Jinan 便宜、賤
Xi'an 便宜、賤
Wuhan 便宜、相因
Chengdu 相因、便宜
Yangzhou 便宜、划廉
Hefei 巧、便宜
Cantonese Guangzhou 平
Hong Kong 平
Taishan 平
Yangjiang 平、平宜
Gan Nanchang 便宜
Hakka Meixian 便宜、平
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 便宜
Liudui (S. Sixian) 便宜
Hsinchu (Hailu) 便宜
Dongshi (Dabu) 便宜
Zhuolan (Raoping) 便宜
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 便宜
Jin Taiyuan 便宜、賤
Min Bei Jian'ou 便宜
Min Dong Fuzhou 便宜
Matsu 便宜
Min Nan Xiamen 俗、便宜
Quanzhou 俗、便宜
Zhangzhou 俗、便宜
Taipei 俗、便宜
Kaohsiung 俗、便宜
Penang 便宜
Philippines (Manila) 俗
Chaozhou 便
Wu Shanghai 𠼢、便宜
Suzhou 便宜、𠼢
Wenzhou 倯、便宜
Xiang Changsha 便宜
Shuangfeng 便宜、賤

Antonyms

Hypernyms

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

賤

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. cheap, worthless
  2. low-ranking, inferior, humble, plebeian
  3. to despise; to look down upon

Readings

Alternative forms

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

賤 (tiện)

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