仙

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仙 U+4ED9, 仙
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4ED9
← 付
[U+4ED8]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 仚 →
[U+4EDA]
See also: 仚

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
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Alternative forms[edit]

Han character[edit]

仙 (radical 9 人+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 人山 (OU), four-corner 22270, composition ⿰亻山)

  1. ascend, ascended, ascending, transcend, transcended, transcending, transcendent, transcendence
  2. a sage, an enlightened person
  3. a Taoist hermit or super-being
  4. a Buddhist deva, a immortal spirit or a fairy

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 92, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 374
  • Dae Jaweon: page 196, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 114, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+4ED9

Chinese[edit]

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 仙
Large seal script
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L31827
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L31828
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L06560
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L06561
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L06562
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L06563
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L06564
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L06565
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 (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (山) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
山 *sreːn
疝 *sreːn, *sraːns
邖 *sreːn
汕 *sreːnʔ, *sraːns
訕 *sraːn, *sraːns
仙 *sen
秈 *sen
苮 *sen
屾 *srin

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 亻 (“person”) + 山 (“mountain”) — a person moving into a mountain to practise becoming immortal.

Originally 僊. The current form is first attested in the clerical script of the Han dynasty.

Etymology 1[edit]

simp. and trad.
 仙
alt. forms 僊
仚
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Pronunciation[edit]

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 仙
Mandarin Beijing /ɕian⁵⁵/
Harbin /ɕian⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ɕian²¹/
Jinan /ɕiã²¹³/
Qingdao /siã²¹³/
Zhengzhou /sian²⁴/
Xi'an /ɕiã²¹/
Xining /ɕiã⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ɕian⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ɕiɛ̃n³¹/
Ürümqi /ɕian⁴⁴/
Wuhan /ɕiɛn⁵⁵/
Chengdu /ɕian⁵⁵/
Guiyang /ɕian⁵⁵/
Kunming /ɕiɛ̃⁴⁴/
Nanjing /sien³¹/
Hefei /ɕyĩ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕie¹¹/
Pingyao /ɕie̞¹³/
Hohhot /ɕie³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɕi⁵³/
Suzhou /siɪ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ɕiẽ̞³³/
Wenzhou /ɕi³³/
Hui Shexian /se³¹/
Tunxi /siɛ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /siẽ³³/
Xiangtan /siẽ³³/
Gan Nanchang /ɕiɛn⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /sien⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /sien²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /sin⁵⁵/
Nanning /ɬin⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /sin⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /sian⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /sieŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /siŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /siaŋ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /tin²³/
Rime
Character 仙
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 仙 (77)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 相然切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /siᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /siɛn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sjæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /sian/
Li
Rong		 /siɛn/
Wang
Li		 /sĭɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /si̯ɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xiān
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 仙
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xiān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sjen ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[s]a[r]/
English immortal (n.)

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 仙
Reading # 1/1
No. 11060
Phonetic
component		 山
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 仙
Old
Chinese		 /*sen/

Noun[edit]

仙

  1. (Taoism) xian (an immortal; celestial being)
  2. fairy; celestial being
  3. A surname​.

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 仙

See also[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

simp. and trad.
 仙
alt. forms 銑／铣 Min Nan

Borrowing from English cent.

Pronunciation[edit]

Definitions[edit]

仙

  1. (money, Cantonese, Min Nan) cent
    五仙硬幣 / 五仙硬币 [Cantonese]  ―  ng5 sin1 ngaang6 bai6 [Jyutping]  ―  five-cent coin
Synonyms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Compounds[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

See also:
仙

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Compounds

Etymology 1[edit]

Kanji in this term
仙
せん
Grade: S
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 仙 (sjen, literally “immortal”). Compare modern Mandarin reading xiān and Cantonese reading sin1.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

仙 (hiragana せん, rōmaji sen)

  1. a sage or hermit, an enlightened person, usually immortal and ageless
  2. (mythology) short for 仙人 (sennin): a wizard or mage; an immortal living as a hermit in the mountains
  3. by extension, the region or area where a sennin lives
  4. the supernatural techniques for becoming immortal and ageless
  5. a person of exceptional talent

Etymology 2[edit]

Kanji in this term
仙
せんと
Grade: S
Irregular

Borrowing from English cent.[1][2] The kanji spelling is an example of jukujikun.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

仙 (katakana セント, hiragana せんと, rōmaji sento)

  1. one hundredth of a dollar: a cent
Usage notes[edit]

This word is almost always spelled in katakana as セント.

References[edit]

  1. ^ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

仙 • (seon) (hangeul 선, revised seon, McCune-Reischauer sŏn)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

仙 (tiên)

Noun[edit]

仙

  1. fairy
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