# 癬

| 癬 | U+766C, &#30316; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-766C |
| ← 癫 [U+766B] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 癭 → [U+766D] |

## Translingual
### Han character

癬 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+17, 22 strokes, cangjie input 大弓火手 (KNFQ), four-corner 0015$_1$, composition ⿸疒鮮)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 783, character 4
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22629
* Dae Jaweon: page 1192, character 24
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2704, character 3
* Unihan data for U+766C

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 鮮 | *sen, *senʔ, *sens |
| 廯 | *sen, *senʔ |
| 癬 | *senʔ |
| 蘚 | *senʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *senʔ) : semantic 疒 + phonetic 鮮 (OC *sen, *senʔ, *sens).

### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “compare with Burmese သန်ကောင်”)

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): xuǎn, xiǎn
    (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄢˇ, ㄒㄧㄢˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): sin$^2$
* Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sién
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): cyo$^3$ / cyaⁿ$^3$ / seng$^3$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sián / chhóaⁿ
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland; variant in Taiwan)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xuǎn
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄢˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: syuǎn
*** Wade–Giles: hsüan$^3$
*** Yale: sywǎn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheuan
*** Palladius: сюань (sjuanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕy̯ɛn²¹⁴/
** (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan; variant in Mainland)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xiǎn
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: siǎn
*** Wade–Giles: hsien$^3$
*** Yale: syǎn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shean
*** Palladius: сянь (sjanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕi̯ɛn²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: sin$^2$
*** Yale: sín
*** Cantonese Pinyin: sin$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: xin$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /siːn³⁵/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sién
*** Hakka Romanization System: xien$^ˋ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: xian$^3$
*** Sinological IPA: /si̯en³¹/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: cyo$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰyɒ⁴⁵³/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: cyaⁿ$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰỹã³³²/
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: seng$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬɛŋ⁴⁵³/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: seng$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬɛŋ³³²/
* cyo3/cyaⁿ3 - vernacular;
* seng3 - literary.
* Dialectal data
| Variety | Location | edit癬 |
| Mandarin | Beijing | /ɕyan²¹⁴/ |
| Mandarin | Harbin | /ɕyan²¹³/ |
| Mandarin | Tianjin | /ɕyan¹³/ |
| Mandarin | Jinan | /ɕyã⁵⁵/ |
| Mandarin | Qingdao | /ɕyã⁵⁵/ |
| Mandarin | Zhengzhou | /syan⁵³/ |
| Mandarin | Xi'an | /ɕiã⁵³/ |
| Mandarin | Xining | /ɕyã⁵³/ |
| Mandarin | Yinchuan | /ɕyan⁵³/ |
| Mandarin | Lanzhou | /ɕyɛ̃n⁴⁴²/ |
| Mandarin | Ürümqi | /ɕyan⁵¹/ |
| Mandarin | Wuhan | /ɕiɛn⁴²/ |
| Mandarin | Chengdu | /ɕyan⁵³/ |
| Mandarin | Guiyang | /ɕian⁴²/ |
| Mandarin | Kunming | /ɕiɛ̃⁵³/ |
| Mandarin | Nanjing | /syen²¹²/ /sien²¹²/ |
| Mandarin | Hefei | /ɕyĩ²⁴/ |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /ɕye⁵³/ |
| Jin | Pingyao | |
| Jin | Hohhot | /ɕie⁵³/ |
| Wu | Shanghai | /ɕi³⁵/ |
| Wu | Suzhou | /siɪ⁵¹/ |
| Wu | Hangzhou | /ɕiẽ̞⁵³/ |
| Wu | Wenzhou | /ɕi³⁵/ |
| Hui | Shexian | /ɕye³⁵/ |
| Hui | Tunxi | /siɛ³¹/ |
| Xiang | Changsha | /siẽ⁴¹/ |
| Xiang | Xiangtan | /siẽ⁴²/ |
| Gan | Nanchang | /ɕyɵn²¹³/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /sien³¹/ |
| Hakka | Taoyuan | /sien³¹/ |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /sin³⁵/ |
| Cantonese | Nanning | /ɬyn³⁵/ |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | /sin³⁵/ |
| Min | Xiamen (Hokkien) | /sian⁵³/ /t͡sʰuã⁵³/ |
| Min | Fuzhou (Eastern Min) | /t͡sʰiaŋ³²/ |
| Min | Jian'ou (Northern Min) | /t͡sʰyiŋ²¹/ |
| Min | Shantou (Teochew) | /siaŋ⁵³/ |
| Min | Haikou (Hainanese) | /sin²¹³/ |
* Middle Chinese: sjenX
Rime :
| Character | 癬 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) |
| Final (韻) | 仙 (77) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 息淺切 |
| Baxter | sjenX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /siᴇn$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /siɛn$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /sjæn$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /sian$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /siɛn$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /sĭɛn$^X$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /si̯ɛn$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | xiǎn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | sin$^2$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]arʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*senʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 癬 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | xuǎn |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ sjen$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*[s]arʔ/ |
| English | ringworm |
| 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 | 癬 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 13493 |
| Phonetic component | 鮮 |
| Rime group | 元 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 獮 |
| Old Chinese | /*senʔ/ |

### Definitions

癬
* (dermatology, pathology) ringworm; tinea

#### Compounds

* 手癬／手癣 (shǒuxuǎn)
* 松皮癬／松皮癣
* 牛皮癬／牛皮癣 (niúpíxuǎn)
* 疥癬／疥癣 (jièxuǎn)
* 疥癬蟲／疥癣虫
* 癬疥／癣疥 (xuǎnjiè)
* 白癬／白癣 (báixuǎn)
* 股癬／股癣 (gǔxuǎn)
* 腳癬／脚癣 (jiǎoxuǎn)
* 花斑癬／花斑癣 (huābānxuǎn)
* 足癬／足癣 (zúxuǎn)
* 錢兒癬／钱儿癣
* 頑癬／顽癣 (wánxuǎn)
* 頭癬／头癣 (tóuxuǎn)
* 體癬／体癣 (tǐxuǎn)
* 髮癬／发癣
* 魚鱗癬／鱼鳞癣 (yúlínxuǎn)
* 黃癬／黄癣 (huángxuǎn)

### References

* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “癣”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 270.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
１．Ringworm

#### Readings

* Go-on: せん (sen)
* Kan-on: せん (sen)

#### Compounds

* 足白癬(あしはくせん) (ashi hakusen)

## Korean
### Hanja

癬 • (seon) (hangeul 선, revised seon, McCune–Reischauer sŏn, Yale sen)
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.