專

See also: 専 and 尃

Translingual

Traditional	專
Shinjitai	専
Simplified	专

Han character

專 (Kangxi radical 41, 寸+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 十戈木戈 (JIDI), four-corner 5034₃, composition ⿱叀寸)

Descendants

• 専
• 专

Derived characters

• 傳, 轉, 磚, 團, 摶, 膞, 蓴, 篿, 竱, 漙, 鱄, 嫥, 縳

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 295, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7439
• Dae Jaweon: page 584, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 507, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5C08

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Chinese

trad.		專
simp.		专
alternative forms		専

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 專
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (專) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
竱	*toːn, *tjonʔ
團	*doːn
摶	*doːn, *doːn, *donʔ
篿	*doːn, *tjon
慱	*doːn
剸	*doːn, *tjonʔ, *tjons
鄟	*doːn, *tjon, *djonʔ
漙	*doːn
鷒	*doːn, *tjon
轉	*tonʔ, *tons
傳	*tons, *don, *dons
囀	*tons
縳	*donʔ, *dons
專	*tjon
磚	*tjon
甎	*tjon
塼	*tjon
嫥	*tjon
膞	*tjon, *tjonʔ, *djonʔ
鱄	*tjon, *tjonʔ
蓴	*djun

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tjon) : phonetic 叀 () + semantic 寸.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhuān (zhuan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyun¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chôn
• Eastern Min (BUC): ciŏng
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): choan
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹tsoe

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhuān
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhuan
    • Wade–Giles: chuan¹
    • Yale: jwān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juan
    • Palladius: чжуань (čžuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯än⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zyun¹
    • Yale: jyūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzyn¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: jun¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡syːn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chôn
    • Hakka Romanization System: zon´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zon¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡son²⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ciŏng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡suoŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: choan
    • Tâi-lô: tsuan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zoafn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡suan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡suan³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡suan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡suan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡suan⁴⁴/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹tsoe
    • MiniDict: tsoe^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹tsoe
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sø⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: tsywen

Rime
Character	專
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	仙 (78)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	職緣切
Baxter	tsywen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiuᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕʷiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕjuæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cwian/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiuɛn/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭwɛn/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯wɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhuān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zyun1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ton/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjon/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	專
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhuān
Middle Chinese	‹ tsywen ›
Old Chinese	/*ton/
English	exclusively
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	專
Reading #	1/1
No.	17683
Phonetic component	專
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	專
Old Chinese	/*tjon/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 專

1. to monopolize; to take sole possession
2. specific
3. special
4. expert

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Shinjitai	専
Kyūjitai	專

Kanji

專

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 専)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): せん (sen)
• Kun: もっぱら (moppara, 專ら)

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Korean

Hanja

專 • (jeon) (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune–Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 專 (chuyên, choèn, chuyến)

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