# 芟

| 芟 | U+829F, &#33439; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-829F |
| ← 芞 [U+829E] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 芠 → [U+82A0] |

## Translingual
### Han character

芟 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹弓水 (THNE), four-corner 4440$_7$, composition ⿱艹殳)
* mow, cut
* weed out
* scythe

#### Derived characters

* 𣓒, 𩋐, 𠫌

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1019, character 17
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30701
* Dae Jaweon: page 1477, character 6
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3184, character 2
* Unihan data for U+829F

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 芟 :
| Shang | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Oracle bone script | Small seal script |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): shān (shan$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄕㄢ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): saam$^1$ / saan$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: shān
*** Zhuyin: ㄕㄢ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: shan
*** Wade–Giles: shan$^1$
*** Yale: shān
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shan
*** Palladius: шань (šanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʂän⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: saam$^1$ / saan$^1$
*** Yale: sāam / sāan
*** Cantonese Pinyin: saam$^1$ / saan$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: sam$^1$ / san$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /saːm⁵⁵/, /saːn⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: sraem
Rime :
| Character | 芟 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 生 (21) |
| Final (韻) | 銜 (149) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | II |
| Fanqie | 所銜切 |
| Baxter | sraem |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ʃˠam/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʃᵚam/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ʃam/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʂaɨm/ |
| Li Rong | /ʃam/ |
| Wang Li | /ʃam/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ʂam/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | shān |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | saam$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]ˤr[a]m/
    (Zhengzhang): /*sroːm/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 芟 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | shān |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ sræm › |
| Old Chinese | /*[s]ˁr[a]m/ |
| English | mow (v.) |
| 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 | 芟 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 11069 |
| Phonetic component | 芟 |
| Rime group | 談 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 衫 |
| Old Chinese | /*sroːm/ |
| Notes | 小徐殳聲 |

### Definitions

芟
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#### Compounds

* 芟夷 (shānyí)
* 芟秋
* 芟穢／芟秽
* 芟繁就簡／芟繁就简
* 芟落
* 芟除 (shānchú)
* 載芟／载芟

### References

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

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* scythe
* to scythe, to cut

#### Readings

* Go-on: せん (sen)
* Kan-on: さん (san)
* Kun: かま (kama)、かる (karu, 芟る)

#### Compounds

* 芟除(さんじょ) (sanjo)
* 芟穢(さんわい) (sanwai)

## Korean
### Hanja

芟 • (sam) (hangeul 삼, revised sam, McCune–Reischauer sam, Yale sam)
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