僊

See also: 仙
僊 U+50CA, 僊
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-50CA
← 僉
[U+50C9] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 僋 →
[U+50CB]

Translingual

Han character

僊 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+11, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人一田山 (OMWU), four-corner 21212, composition ⿰亻䙴 (TK) or ⿰亻⿱䙲巳 (GJ))

  • 仙 (currently used in both traditional and simplified Chinese to replace the archaic form 僊)

References
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 115, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1055
  • Dae Jaweon: page 246, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 209, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+50CA

Chinese

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 僊
Small seal script

s05903

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 (遷) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
遷 *sʰen
櫏 *sʰen
韆 *sʰen
僊 *sen
躚 *sen, *seːn
蹮 *seːn

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sen) : semantic 人 (“person”) + phonetic 䙴 (OC *sʰen).

Etymology 1
For pronunciation and definitions of 僊 – see 仙 (“xian; extraordinary person; etc.”).
(This character is the simplified form of 仙).
Notes:

Compounds

Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of 僊 – see 遷 (“to ascend; to go up; to promote; to be promoted; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of 遷).

Japanese

Kanji
僊

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings
  • On (unclassified): せん (sen)
  • Kun: やまびと (yamabito); せんにん (sennin)

Korean

Hanja

僊 • (seon) (hangeul 선, revised seon, McCune–Reischauer sŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

僊: Hán Nôm readings: tiên

  1. (Taoism) immortals

References
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