繕

See also: 缮

繕	U+7E55, 繕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E55

← 織
[U+7E54]

CJK Unified Ideographs

繖 →
[U+7E56]

Translingual

Han character

繕 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 女火廿土口 (VFTGR) or 女火廿廿口 (VFTTR), four-corner 2896₁, composition ⿰糹善)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 938, character 34
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27893
Dae Jaweon: page 1377, character 30
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3454, character 3
Unihan data for U+7E55

Chinese

trad.		繕
simp.		缮

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 繕
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
橏	*tjenʔ
嫸	*tjenʔ
善	*ɡjenʔ
譱	*ɡjenʔ
蟮	*djanʔ
鱔	*djanʔ
僐	djenʔ, djens
鄯	djenʔ, djens
墡	*djenʔ
磰	*djenʔ
繕	*ɡjens
膳	*djens
饍	*djens

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡjens): semantic 糸 (“thread; textile”) + phonetic 善 (OC *ɡjenʔ, “good”). Also Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): to repair; to make good.

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *glan (“to repair”), cognate to Tibetan གླན་པ (glan pa, “to patch; to mend”) and related forms (Gong 1995; STEDT).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shàn (shan⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sin⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shàn
  - Wade–Giles: shan⁴
  - Yale: shàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shann
  - Palladius: шань (šanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂän⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: sin⁶
  - Yale: sihn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sin⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: xin⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːn²²/

Middle Chinese: dzyenH

Rime
Character	繕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	時戰切
Baxter	dzyenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑiᴇn^H/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑiɛn^H/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑjæn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑian^H/
Li Rong	/ʑiɛn^H/
Wang Li	/ʑĭɛn^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʑi̯ɛn^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sin⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]e[n]ʔ-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*ɡjens/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	繕
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shàn
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyen^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]e[n]ʔ-s/
English	(make good:) repair
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	繕
Reading #	1/1
No.	11092
Phonetic component	善
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*ɡjens/

Definitions

繕

to repair; to mend
to copy neatly; to transcribe
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to prepare; to renovate
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to keep; to maintain
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) firm; resolute

Compounds

修繕 / 修缮 (xiūshàn)
營繕 / 营缮
繕寫 / 缮写 (shànxiě)
繕甲厲兵 / 缮甲厉兵
繕甲治兵 / 缮甲治兵

References

“繕”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

繕

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

Go-on: ぜん (zen, Jōyō)
Kan-on: せん (sen)
Kun: つくろう (tsukurou, 繕う, Jōyō)^{←つくろふ (tukurofu, 繕ふ, historical)}

Compounds

繕(ぜん)性(さい) (zensai)
繕(ぜん)写(しゃ) (zensha)
繕(ぜん)修(しゅう) (zenshū)
繕(ぜん)治(ち) (zenchi)
営(えい)繕(ぜん) (eizen)
修(しゅう)繕(ぜん) (shūzen)
葺(しゅう)繕(ぜん) (shūzen)
補(ほ)繕(ぜん) (hozen)
衣紋(えもん)を繕(つくろ)う (emon o tsukurou)
引(ひ)き繕(つくろ)う (hikitsukurou)
羽(は)繕(づくろ)い (hazukuroi)
見(み)繕(つくろ)う (mitsukurou)
言(い)い繕(つくろ)う (ītsukurou)
取(と)り繕(つくろ)う (toritsukurou)
身(み)繕(づくろ)い (mizukuroi)
声(こわ)繕(づくろ)い (kowazukuroi)
掻(か)い繕(つくろ)う (kaitsukurou)

Korean

Hanja

繕 • (seon) (hangeul 선, revised seon, McCune–Reischauer sŏn, Yale sen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

繕: Hán Việt readings: thiện^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

chữ Hán form of thiện (“repair, transcribe neatly”)

References

^ Trần (2004).
^ Trần (1999).
^ Nguyễn (1974).
^ Thiều Chửu (1942).

[gdhn-1] Trần (2004).

[tvctdhv-2] Trần (1999).

[hvttd-3] Nguyễn (1974).

[tchvtd-4] Thiều Chửu (1942).

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