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

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		 /d͡ʑiᴇnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡ʑiɛnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡ʑjænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡ʑianH/
Li
Rong		 /ʑiɛnH/
Wang
Li		 /ʑĭɛnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʑi̯ɛnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 sin6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 繕
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzyenH ›
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		 繕
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡjens/

Definitions

繕

  1. to repair; to mend
  2. to copy neatly; to transcribe
  3. † to prepare; to renovate
  4. † to keep; to maintain
  5. † 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

Japanese

Kanji
繕

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. darning
  2. repair

Readings

Compounds

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]

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

References
  1. Trần (2004).
  2. Trần (1999).
  3. Nguyễn (1974).
  4. Thiều Chửu (1942).
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