# 阡

| 阡 | U+9621, &#38433; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9621 |
| ← 阠 [U+9620] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 阢 → [U+9622] |

## Translingual
### Han character

阡 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 弓中竹十 (NLHJ), four-corner 7224$_0$, composition ⿰阝千)
* footpaths between fields
* paths

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1345, character 16
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41548
* Dae Jaweon: page 1847, character 33
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4115, character 9
* Unihan data for U+9621

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 阡 :
| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | Old Chinese |
| 千 | *sn̥ʰiːn |
| 仟 | *sn̥ʰiːn |
| 芊 | *sn̥ʰiːn, *sn̥ʰiːns |
| 阡 | *sn̥ʰiːn |
| 汘 | *sn̥ʰiːn |
| 迁 | *sn̥ʰiːn |
| 杄 | *sn̥ʰiːn |
| 人 | *njin |
| 仁 | *njin |
| 朲 | *njin |
| 佞 | *neːŋs |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sn̥ʰiːn): semantic 阜 (“soil mountain”) + phonetic 千 (OC *sn̥ʰiːn).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): qiān (qian$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄢ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): cin$^1$
* 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: cin$^1$
*** Yale: chīn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: tsin$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: qin$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰiːn⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: tshen
Rime :
| Character | 阡 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 清 (14) |
| Final (韻) | 先 (85) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | IV |
| Fanqie | 蒼先切 |
| Baxter | tshen |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /t͡sʰen/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /t͡sʰen/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡sʰɛn/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /t͡sʰɛn/ |
| Li Rong | /t͡sʰen/ |
| Wang Li | /t͡sʰien/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /t͡sʰien/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | qiān |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | cin$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[tsʰ]ˤi[n]/
    (Zhengzhang): /*sn̥ʰiːn/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 阡 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | qiān |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ tshen › |
| Old Chinese | /*[tsʰ]ˁi[n]/ |
| English | N-S path between fields |
| 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 | 阡 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 10795 |
| Phonetic component | 人 |
| Rime group | 眞 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 千 |
| Old Chinese | /*sn̥ʰiːn/ |

### Definitions

阡
* (literary) footpath between fields going north to south
    Coordinate term: 陌 (mò)

### Compounds

* 荖阡
* 阡陌 (qiānmò)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* (financial, archaic) thousand

#### Readings

* Go-on: せん (sen)
* Kan-on: せん (sen)
* Kun: あぜ (aze, 阡)、はかみち (hakamichi, 阡)、みち (michi, 阡)

### See also

v • d • eJapanese numbers :
| Number | Kanji | Kana | Romaji |
| 0 | 零 | れい、ゼロ | rei, zero |
| 1 | 一、壱、弌、壹 | いち | ichi |
| 2 | 二、弐、貳、貮 | に | ni |
| 3 | 三、参 | さん | san |
| 4 | 四、肆 | よん、し | yon, shi |
| 5 | 五、伍 | ご | go |
| 6 | 六、陸 | ろく | roku |
| 7 | 七、漆 | なな、しち | nana, shichi |
| 8 | 八、捌 | はち | hachi |
| 9 | 九、玖 | きゅう、く | kyū, ku |
| 10 | 十、拾 | じゅう | jū |
| 100 | 百、陌、佰 | ひゃく | hyaku |
| 1,000 | 千、阡、仟 | せん | sen |
| 10,000 | 一万、一萬 | いちまん | ichiman |
| 100,000,000 | 一億 | いちおく | ichioku |

## Korean
### Hanja

阡 • (cheon) (hangeul 천, revised cheon, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏn, Yale chen)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

阡: Hán Việt readings: thiên
阡: Nôm readings: thiên
* chữ Hán form of thiên (“bank of a rice paddy”).

### References

* 1 2 Nguyễn et al. (2009).
* 1 2 Trần (2004).
* ↑ Trần (1999).
* ↑ Nguyễn (1974).
* ↑ Thiều Chửu (1942).