# 姍

| 姍 | U+59CD, &#22989; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59CD |
| ← 姌 [U+59CC] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 姎 → [U+59CE] |

## Translingual
### Han character

姍 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 女月廿 (VBT), four-corner 4744$_0$, composition ⿰女冊)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 258, character 23
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6169
* Dae Jaweon: page 524, character 1
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1037, character 10
* Unihan data for U+59CD

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 珊 | *slaːn |
| 跚 | *slaːn |
| 姗 | *slaːn |
| 删 | *sraːn |
| 栅 | *sʰraːɡ, *sʰreːɡ, *sraːns |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *slaːn) : semantic 女 (“female”) + abbreviated phonetic 刪 (OC *sraːn).

### Pronunciation 1

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): shān, shàn (shan$^1$, shan$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄕㄢ, ㄕㄢˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): 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/
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: shàn
*** Zhuyin: ㄕㄢˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: shàn
*** Wade–Giles: shan$^4$
*** Yale: shàn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shann
*** Palladius: шань (šanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʂän⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: saan$^1$
*** Yale: sāan
*** Cantonese Pinyin: saan$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: san$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /saːn⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: san
Rime :
| Character | 姍 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) |
| Final (韻) | 寒 (61) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 蘇干切 |
| Baxter | san |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /sɑn/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /sɑn/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /sɑn/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /san/ |
| Li Rong | /sɑn/ |
| Wang Li | /sɑn/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /sɑn/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | sān |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | saan$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*slaːn/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 姍 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 11066 |
| Phonetic component | 删 |
| Rime group | 元 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 𦙽 |
| Old Chinese | /*slaːn/ |

#### Definitions

姍
* Used in 姍姍／姗姗 (shānshān).
* (obsolete) to slander
* (obsolete) glorious
* a surname

#### Compounds

* 姍姍／姗姗 (shānshān)
* 姍姍來遲／姗姗来迟
* 姍笑／姗笑
* 媻姍／媻姗

### Pronunciation 2

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): xiān (xian$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): sin$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xiān
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: sian
*** Wade–Giles: hsien$^1$
*** Yale: syān
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shian
*** Palladius: сянь (sjanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: sin$^1$
*** Yale: sīn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: sin$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: xin$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /siːn⁵⁵/

#### Definitions

姍
* Only used in 便姍／便姗.

### References

* “姍”, 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)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): さん (san)、せん (sen)、はん (han)、さつ (satsu)、さち (sachi)
* Kun: みめよい (mimeyoi)、そしる (soshiru)、みにくい (minikui)

## Korean
### Hanja

姍 • (san) (hangeul 산, revised san, McCune–Reischauer san)
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