鮮

鮮 (Kangxi radical 195, 魚+6, 17 strokes, cangjie input 弓火廿手 (NFTQ), four-corner 2835₁, composition ⿰魚羊)

• KangXi: page 1470, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46133
• Dae Jaweon: page 2002, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4688, character 6
• Unihan data for U+9BAE

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sen, *senʔ, *sens) : semantic 魚 (“fish”) + abbreviated phonetic 羴 (OC *qʰreːn, *qʰljen).

Alternatively, may be ideogrammic compound (會意) : 魚 (“fish”) + 羊 (“sheep”) – delicious.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *gsjar (“new; fresh”) (STEDT). Cognate with Proto-Tibeto-Burman *g-sar (“new; fresh”), whence Tibetan གསར་བ (gsar ba, “new; fresh”), Rawang angsar (“new”), Drung aksal (“new”), Mizo tʰarᴴ (“new”) (Schuessler, 2007).

鮮

1. live fish; aquatic food
2. fresh food; delicious food
3. fresh; not stale
4. new; recent
5. clear; vivid
6. brightly coloured; gaily coloured
7. delicious; tasty
8. special; peculiar
9. (Hakka) thin; dilute
10. a surname

Etymology not clear (Schuessler, 2007).

鮮

1. rare; little; few

   • 量力而動，其過鮮矣。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     量力而动，其过鲜矣。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE, translation from Zuozhuan: Commentary on the "Spring and Autumn Annals" (2017), by Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li and David Schaberg

     Liànglì ér dòng, qí guò xiǎn yǐ. [Pinyin]

     If one weighs one’s strength and then acts, one’s errors will be few.

2. rarely; infrequently

   • 子曰：「巧言令色，鮮矣仁！」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     子曰：“巧言令色，鲜矣仁！” [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Zǐyuē: “Qiǎoyánlìngsè, xiǎn yǐ rén!” [Pinyin]

     The Master said, "Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue!"

3. to lack; to be short of
4. ^† Alternative form of 巘／𪩘 (yǎn, “the top of a mountain; cliff; small mountain”).

   • 度其鮮原，居岐之陽 [MSC, trad.]
     度其鲜原，居岐之阳 [MSC, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE

     dù qí xiǎn yuán, jū qí zhī yáng [Pinyin]

     He determined the small mountains and hills, settling in the south of Qi

鮮

1. ^† Alternative form of 獻／献 (xiàn, “to offer; to present”).

• “Entry #12480”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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• Go-on: せん (sen, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: せん (sen, Jōyō)
• Kun: あざやか (azayaka, 鮮やか, Jōyō); すくない (sukunai, 鮮い); あたらしい (atarashii, 鮮しい)

From Middle Chinese 鮮 (MC siᴇn, siᴇn^X, siᴇn^H).

• IPA^(key): [sẽ̞ɴ]

鮮(せん) • (sen) ^{←せん (sen)?}

1. fresh
2. vivid
3. (Empire of Japan) Korea

   全(ぜん)鮮(せん) ― zensen ― the entirety of Korea

   内(ない)鮮(せん)一体(いったい) ― naisen ittai ― unification of the mainland and Korea

鮮 (eumhun 고울 선 (goul seon))

1. Hanja form^? of 선 (“smooth; fish”).

• 조선 (朝鮮, joseon, “Joseon; Korea”)
• 생선 (生鮮, saengseon, “fish”)
• 선혈 (鮮血, seonhyeol, “recently spilled blood”)

鮮: Hán Nôm readings: tiên, tắn

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