# 僉

| 僉 | U+50C9, &#20681; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-50C9 |
| ← 僈 [U+50C8] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 僊 → [U+50CA] |

## Translingual

| Traditional | 僉 |
| Shinjitai (extended) | 㑒 |
| Simplified | 佥 |

### Han character

僉 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+11, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人一口人 (OMRO), four-corner 8088$_6$, composition ⿳亼吅从)

#### Derived characters

* 儉, 噞, 嬐, 嶮, 憸, 撿, 澰, 獫, 險, 𪜇, 檢, 殮, 㷿, 臉, 瞼, 礆, 襝, 䌞, 羷, 譣, 𧸘, 醶, 鐱, 䩎, 𩏩, 驗, 䲓, 鹼, 䶨
* 𠑲, 劎, 劍, 劒, 劔, 斂, 歛, 顩
* 薟, 簽, 𩅼, 厱, 㢛, 㿌, 匳, 𨘰

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 115, character 27
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1054
* Dae Jaweon: page 246, character 14
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 207, character 3
* Unihan data for U+50C9

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 僉 :
| Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| Bronze inscriptionsb08004b08005b08006Small seal scripts03765Transcribed ancient scriptsL33937L33938L12950 |||
| 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). |||
| | Old Chinese |
| 厱 | *raːm, *kʰreːm, *kʰlam |
| 歛 | *qʰlaːm |
| 臉 | *ɡ·reːmʔ, *skʰlam, *kramʔ |
| 醶 | *ɡr·reːmʔ, *skʰraːmʔ |
| 鹼 | *kreːmʔ, *skʰlam |
| 薟 | *ɡ·ram, *ɡ·ramʔ, *qʰram |
| 匳 | *ɡ·ram |
| 獫 | *ɡ·ram, *ɡ·ramʔ, *ɡ·rams, *qʰramʔ |
| 蘞 | *ɡ·ram, *ɡ·ramʔ, *qʰlam |
| 籢 | *ɡ·ram |
| 斂 | *ɡ·ramʔ, *ɡ·rams |
| 瀲 | *ɡ·ramʔ, *ɡ·rams |
| 撿 | *ɡ·ramʔ, *kramʔ |
| 羷 | *ɡ·ramʔ |
| 殮 | *ɡ·rams |
| 簽 | *skʰlam |
| 僉 | *skʰlam |
| 憸 | *skʰlam, *skʰlamʔ, *sqʰlam, *qʰramʔ |
| 譣 | *skʰlam, *qʰramʔ |
| 檢 | *kramʔ |
| 瞼 | *kramʔ |
| 儉 | *ɡramʔ |
| 顩 | *ŋramʔ, *rlɯmʔ, *kʰrɯmʔ |
| 嬐 | *ŋramʔ |
| 嶮 | *ŋramʔ, *hŋramʔ |
| 噞 | *ŋramʔ, *ŋrams |
| 驗 | *ŋrams |
| 險 | *qʰramʔ |
| 劒 | *kams |
| 劍 | *kams |
| 𩏩 | *qʰam |
Originally, Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 亼 + 兄 written twice. It originally indicates people answering to a call together or saying the same thing unanimously.
Since the Small Seal script version, the whole character is stylized as Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 亼 + 吅 + 从.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): qiān (qian$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄢ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): cim$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhiam
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: qiān
*** Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: cian
*** Wade–Giles: chʻien$^1$
*** Yale: chyān
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chian
*** Palladius: цянь (cjanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: cim$^1$
*** Yale: chīm
*** Cantonese Pinyin: tsim$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: qim$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰiːm⁵⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiam
*** Tâi-lô: tshiam
*** Phofsit Daibuun: chiafm
*** IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰiam⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰiam³³/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰiam⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰiam⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰiam⁴⁴/
* Middle Chinese: tshjem
Rime :
| Character | 僉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 清 (14) |
| Final (韻) | 鹽 (153) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 七廉切 |
| Baxter | tshjem |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /t͡sʰiᴇm/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /t͡sʰiɛm/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡sʰjæm/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /t͡sʰiam/ |
| Li Rong | /t͡sʰiɛm/ |
| Wang Li | /t͡sʰĭɛm/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /t͡sʰi̯ɛm/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | qiān |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | cim$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*s.qʰ[a]m/
    (Zhengzhang): /*skʰlam/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 僉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | qiān |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ tshjem › |
| Old Chinese | /*s.qʰ[a]m/ (dialect: *s.qʰ > MC tsh-) |
| English | all; many |
| 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 | 僉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 10202 |
| Phonetic component | 僉 |
| Rime group | 談 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 籤 |
| Old Chinese | /*skʰlam/ |

### Definitions

僉
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) all; together; unanimous

### Compounds

* 僉事 / 佥事
* 僉同 / 佥同
* 僉押 / 佥押
* 僉望 / 佥望
* 僉謀 / 佥谋
* 僉議 / 佥议
* 打僉 / 打佥

## Japanese

| Shinjitai (extended) | 㑒 |
| Kyūjitai | 僉 |

### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 㑒)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: せん (sen)
* Kan-on: せん (sen)
* Kun: みな (mina, 僉)、ことごとく (kotogotoku)、ともに (tomoni)
* Nanori: みな (mina)

## Korean
### Hanja

僉 • (cheom) (hangeul 첨, revised cheom, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏm, Yale chem)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

僉: Hán Nôm readings: thiêm
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#### References

* Nom Foundation