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/
Bernard
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) footpaths between fields going north to south

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji
阡

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. (financial, archaic) thousand

Readings

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. Nguyễn et al. (2009).
  2. Trần (2004).
  3. Trần (1999).
  4. Nguyễn (1974).
  5. Thiều Chửu (1942).
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