籤

See also: 籖 and 签

籤	U 7C64, 籤 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7C64

← 籣
[U 7C63]

CJK Unified Ideographs

籥 →
[U 7C65]

Translingual

Han character

籤 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹 17, 23 strokes, cangjie input 竹人戈一 (HOIM), four-corner 8815₃, composition ⿱𥫗韱)

Derived characters

𡤷

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 905, character 16
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26769
Dae Jaweon: page 1330, character 11
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3032, character 15
Unihan data for U 7C64

Chinese

trad.		籤/簽
simp.		签^*

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
讖	*sʰrims
攕	*sreːm
櫼	sreːm, ʔsem
懺	*sʰraːms
殲	*ʔsem
瀸	*ʔsem
鑯	*ʔsem
虃	*ʔslem
籤	*sʰem
韯	*sem
纖	*sem
孅	*sem
韱	*sem
襳	sem, srem, *srim

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰem) : semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) phonetic 韱 (OC *sem).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): qiān (qian¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cim¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhiâm
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): chhiam

(Teochew, Peng'im): ciam¹ / ciang¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
  - Hanyu Pinyin: qiān
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cian
  - Wade–Giles: chʻien¹
  - Yale: chyān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chian
  - Palladius: цянь (cjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: cim¹
  - Yale: chīm
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsim¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: qim¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːm⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhiâm
  - Hakka Romanization System: qiam^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: qiam¹
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰi̯am²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiam
  - Tâi-lô: tshiam
  - Phofsit Daibuun: chiafm
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰiam⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰiam³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰiam⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰiam⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰiam⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ciam¹ / ciang¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshiam / tshiang
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiam³³/, /t͡sʰiaŋ³³/

Middle Chinese: tshjem

Rime
Character	籤
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	鹽 (153)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	七廉切
Baxter	tshjem
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰiᴇm/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰiɛm/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰjæm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰiam/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰiɛm/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰĭɛm/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡sʰi̯ɛm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qiān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cim¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*sʰem/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	籤
Reading #	1/1
No.	13482
Phonetic component	韱
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*sʰem/

Definitions

籤

inscribed bamboo slips used for divination or drawing lots; (in general) lot
slender pointed piece of wood
sticker; marker; label

Compounds

References

“籤”, 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

籤

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

Noun

籤(くじ) • (kuji)

lottery

Derived terms

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 籤 (MC tshjem). Recorded as Middle Korean 쳠 (chyem) (Yale: chyem) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Pronunciation

(SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕʰʌ̹m]
Phonetic hangul: [첨]

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

籤

Wikisource

籤 (eumhun 제비 첨 (jebi cheom))

hanja form^? of 첨 (“lottery”)

Compounds

추첨 (抽籤, chucheom, “draw lots”)
당첨 (當籤, dangcheom, “winning the lot”)

References

국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

Vietnamese

Han character

籤: Hán Nôm readings: thiêm, tiêm

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