簪

簪 U+7C2A, 簪 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7C2A ← 簩 [U+7C29] CJK Unified Ideographs 簫 → [U+7C2B]

Translingual

Han character

簪 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹一山日 (HMUA), four-corner 8860₁, composition ⿱𥫗朁)

Derived characters

• 𡅎 𢹽 𣠱 𨇸

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 900, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26558
• Dae Jaweon: page 1326, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3014, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7C2A

Chinese

trad.		簪
simp. #		簪
alternative forms		兂 簮 篸／𥮾 𥯓 𦻳 兂 簮 篸／𥮾 𥯓 𦻳 𥸢 𬖂 𮆪

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 簪
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
簪	*ʔsɯːm, *ʔsrɯm
撍	*ʔsluːm, *ʔsluːmʔ, *ʔsluːms, *ʔsrum
鐕	*ʔsluːm
憯	*sʰluːmʔ, *sʰlɯːmʔ
噆	*sʰluːmʔ, *ʔsluːb
朁	*sʰlɯːmʔ, *zlam
蠶	*zluːm
蚕	*zluːm, *hl'iːnʔ
糣	*sluːmʔ
熸	*ʔslom
鬵	*zlam, *zɯm, *ljɯm
灊	*zlam, *zɯm, *ljɯm
潛	*zlom, *zloms
僭	*ʔslɯːms
兓	*sl'ɯm
嶜	*zlum
兂	*ʔsrɯm
譖	*ʔsrums

Etymology

Compare perhaps 針 (OC *kjum, *kjums, “needle”) (STEDT).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zān, zēn (zan¹, zen¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄢ, ㄗㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zaam¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): cham / chiam / chim

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zam¹

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹tsoe

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zān
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zan
    • Wade–Giles: tsan¹
    • Yale: dzān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzan
    • Palladius: цзань (czanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sän⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zēn
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zen
    • Wade–Giles: tsên¹
    • Yale: dzēn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzen
    • Palladius: цзэнь (czɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zaam¹
    • Yale: jāam
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzaam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zam¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saːm⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cham
    • Tâi-lô: tsam
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zafm
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sam³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sam⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiam
    • Tâi-lô: tsiam
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciafm
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡siam⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chim
    • Tâi-lô: tsim
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cym
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sim⁴⁴/

Note:

• cham/chiam - vernacular;
• chim - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: zam¹
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsam
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sam³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹tsoe
    • MiniDict: tsoe^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹tsoe
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sø⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: tsrim, tsom

Rime
Character	簪	簪
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	莊 (18)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	侵 (140)	覃 (159)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	側吟切	作含切
Baxter	tsrim	tsom
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ʃˠiɪm/	/t͡sʌm/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈ͡ʂᵚim/	/t͡səm/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ʃiem/	/t͡sɒm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈ͡ʂjim/	/t͡səm/
Li Rong	/t͡ʃjəm/	/t͡sᴀm/
Wang Li	/t͡ʃĭĕm/	/t͡sɒm/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʈ͡ʂi̯əm/	/t͡săm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhēn	zān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zam1	zaam1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*Cə.tsˤ[ə]m/, /*tsr[ə]m/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsɯːm/, /*ʔsrɯm/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	簪	簪
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zān	zān
Middle Chinese	‹ tsom ›	‹ tsrim ›
Old Chinese	/*Cə.tsˁ[ə]m/	/*tsr[ə]m/
English	hairpin	hairpin
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	簪	簪
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	6694	6721
Phonetic component	兓	兓
Rime group	侵	侵
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	簪	旡
Old Chinese	/*ʔsɯːm/	/*ʔsrɯm/
Notes		說文同兂俗體

Definitions

簪

1. hairpin; clasp
2. to wear in one's hair

Compounds

• 刈蓍遺簪 / 刈蓍遗簪
• 墮珥遺簪 / 堕珥遗簪
• 戶列簪纓 / 户列簪缨
• 扁簪
• 投簪
• 抽簪
• 持橐簪筆 / 持橐簪笔
• 插頭簪 / 插头簪
• 木簪
• 玉簪
• 瓶墜簪折 / 瓶坠簪折
• 盍簪
• 碧玉簪
• 竊簪之臣 / 窃簪之臣
• 簪子 (zānzi)
• 簪珥
• 簪笏
• 簪筆 / 簪笔
• 簪筆磬折 / 簪笔磬折
• 簪簪
• 簪紱 / 簪绂
• 簪組 / 簪组
• 簪纓 / 簪缨
• 簪纓世胄 / 簪缨世胄
• 簪纓縉紳 / 簪缨缙绅
• 簪纓門第 / 簪缨门第
• 簪花
• 缾沉簪折 / 瓶沉簪折
• 美女簪花
• 華簪 / 华簪
• 蓍簪不忘
• 衣簪
• 遺簪墮履 / 遗簪堕履
• 遺簪墜屨 / 遗簪坠屦
• 金簪
• 銀簪 / 银簪
• 頭髮簪 / 头发簪
• 髮簪 / 发簪 (fàzān)
• 鳳簪 / 凤簪

 

Japanese

Kanji

簪

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. ornamental hairpin

Readings

• Go-on: しん (shin)^{←しむ (simu, historical)}、そん (son)^{←そむ (somu, historical)}
• Kan-on: さん (san)^{←さむ (samu, historical)}、しん (shin)^{←しむ (simu, historical)}
• Kun: かんざし (kanzashi, 簪)

Etymology

簪 (kanzashi): A 舞子 (maiko, “apprentice geisha”) with the willow-themed kanzashi for the month of June.

Kanji in this term
簪
かんざし Hyōgai

Alternative spellings
髪挿 鈿 釵

/kamusaɕi/ → /kanzaɕi/

Originally a compound of 髪 (kamu, “hair, hair of the head”, Old Japanese combining form) +‎ 挿し (sashi, “sticker-through (something that sticks through)”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 挿す sasu “to stick through, to insert”). The sashi changes to zashi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) かんざし [kàńzáshí] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [kã̠nd͡za̠ɕi]

Noun

簪(かんざし) • (kanzashi) 

1. a hairpin, particularly a fancy decorative hairpin used in Japanese women's hairstyles

Usage notes

This is most commonly spelled in kanji as 簪 or in kana as かんざし.

The alternative kanji spellings are attested, but seldom used in modern Japanese.

Derived terms

• 雛(ヒナ)の簪(カンザシ) (hinanokanzashi)

Korean

Hanja

簪 • (jam) (hangeul 잠, revised jam, McCune–Reischauer cham, Yale cam)

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Vietnamese

Han character

簪: Hán Nôm readings: trâm, trám, trắm

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