僔

僔 U+50D4, 僔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-50D4 ← 僓 [U+50D3] CJK Unified Ideographs 僕 → [U+50D5]

Translingual

Han character

僔 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+12, 14 strokes, cangjie input 人廿田戈 (OTWI), four-corner 2824₆, composition ⿰亻尊)

1. gather, assemble
2. humble, modest, unpretentious
3. modesty

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 116, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1093
• Dae Jaweon: page 247, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 221, character 8
• Unihan data for U+50D4

Chinese

trad.		僔
simp. #		僔

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 僔
Small seal script s05895
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

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

	Old Chinese
尊	*ʔsuːn
樽	*ʔsuːn
罇	*ʔsuːn
嶟	*ʔsuːn, *ʔsun
繜	*ʔsuːn
撙	*ʔsuːnʔ
噂	*ʔsuːnʔ
譐	*ʔsuːnʔ
僔	*ʔsuːnʔ
蹲	*zuːn
鱒	*zuːnʔ, *zuːns
鐏	*zuːns
遵	*ʔsun
鷷	*ʔsun, *zun
墫	*sʰun
竴	*sʰun

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔsuːnʔ) : semantic 人 (“people”) + phonetic 尊 (OC *ʔsuːn)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zǔn (zun³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄨㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyun²
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zong³ / zuong³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zǔn
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄨㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zǔn
    • Wade–Giles: tsun³
    • Yale: dzwǔn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzoen
    • Palladius: цзунь (czunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡su̯ən²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zyun²
    • Yale: jyún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzyn²
    • Guangdong Romanization: jun²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡syːn³⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zong³
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ceông
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɔŋ⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zuong³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡suoŋ³³²/

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• Middle Chinese: tswonX

Rime
Character	僔
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	兹損切
Baxter	tswonX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡suənX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡suonX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡suənX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡swənX/
Li Rong	/t͡suənX/
Wang Li	/t͡suənX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡suənX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zǔn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zyun2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsuːnʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	僔
Reading #	1/1
No.	17992
Phonetic component	尊
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	𠟃
Old Chinese	/*ʔsuːnʔ/

Definitions

僔

1. gather, assemble
2. humble, modest, unpretentious
3. modesty

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “僔”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 321.

Japanese

Kanji

僔

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): そん (son)

Korean

Hanja

僔 • (jun) (hangeul 준, revised jun, McCune–Reischauer chun)

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