Translingual

Han character

箋 (radical 118 竹+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 竹戈戈 (HII), four-corner 8850₃)

1. note, memo
2. stationery
3. comments

References

• KangXi: page 887, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26122
• Dae Jaweon: page 1315, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2981, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7B8B

Chinese

Glyph origin

Pronunciation

Definitions

箋

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: せん (sen)
• Kan’on: せん (sen)
• Kun: ふだ (fuda)

Etymology 1

From Middle Chinese 箋 ‎(/*d͡zen/). Compare modern Mandarin traditional 箋 and simplified 笺 ‎(jiān).

Pronunciation

• On'yomi
• (Tokyo) せ​ん [séꜜǹ] (Atamadaka - [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [sẽ̞ɴ]

Alternative forms

• 籖

Noun

箋 ‎(hiragana せん, romaji sen)

1. a slip of paper
2. a label made of wood, bamboo, ivory, or paper

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Originally a compound of 文 ‎(fumi, “writing”) +‎ 板 ‎(ita, “board”), from the way that thin slices of wood were used for labels.^[2][1]

/fumiita/ > /fumita/ > /funda/ > /fuda/

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) ふだ [fùdá] (Heiban - [0])^[1][3]
• IPA^(key): [ɸɯᵝda̠]

Alternative forms

• 札, 簡

Noun

箋 ‎(hiragana ふだ, romaji fuda)

1. Alternative spelling of 札 a slip of paper; a label

Usage notes

The 箋 spelling for fuda is rare. The 札 spelling is the most common.^[2][1]

References

1. 1 2 3 4 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
2. 1 2 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
3. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

箋 • ‎(jeon) (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)

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