旃

旃 (Kangxi radical 70, 方+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜尸人月卜 (YSOBY), four-corner 0824₇, composition ⿸𭤨丹)

1. silk banner with bent pole

• 㮵 𩔣 𪄟

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 482, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13640
• Dae Jaweon: page 844, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2178, character 4
• Unihan data for U+65C3

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tjan) : semantic 㫃 + phonetic 丹 (OC *taːn)

旃

Possibly related to 丹 (OC *taːn) (Wang, 1982; Schuessler, 2007).

Hill (2014) compares it instead to Tibetan དར (dar, “flag”).

旃

1. (literary) a kind of red banner with a bent shaft
2. (literary) banner; flag (in general)
3. (obsolete) Alternative form of 氈／毡 (zhān, “felt”)

旃

1. (literary, obsolete) Contraction of 之焉 (zhī yān).

   • 人之為言，苟亦無信。舍旃舍旃，苟亦無然。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     人之为言，苟亦无信。舍旃舍旃，苟亦无然。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Rén zhī wéi yán, gǒu yì wú xìn. Shě zhān shě zhān, gǒu yì wú rán. [Pinyin]

     When men tell their stories, / Do not readily believe them; / Put them aside, put them aside. / Do not readily assent to them.

   • 方當盛漢之隆，願勉旃，毋多談！ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     方当盛汉之隆，愿勉旃，毋多谈！ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Book of Han, circa 1^st century CE

     Fāng dāng shèng Hàn zhī lóng, yuàn miǎn zhān, wú duōtán! [Pinyin]

     Now we happen to live in this great era of Han, a time of prosperity. May you strive for your part in it (as a state official), and stop meddling in my business!

旃

1. Used in transcription.

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• Go-on: せん (sen)
• Kan-on: せん (sen)
• Kun: はた (hata)

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

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