腺

腺 U+817A, 腺
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-817A
← 腹
[U+8179] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 腻 →
[U+817B]

Translingual

Han character

腺 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月竹日水 (BHAE), four-corner 76232, composition ⿰⺼泉)

Further reading
  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 990, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29746
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1442, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2097, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+817A

Chinese
trad. 腺
simp. # 腺

Glyph origin

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 腺(せん) (sen).

Etymology

Spelling pronunciation, as 線／线 (xiàn).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • siàn - literary;
  • sòaⁿ - vernacular.

    Definitions

    腺

    1. (anatomy) gland

    Compounds

    Japanese

    Glyph origin

    A 国字 (kokuji, “Japanese-coined character”) coined by Japanese rangaku scholar Udagawa Genshin in the late 1700s–early 1800s as a translation for Dutch klier (“gland”), as an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : ⺼ (“flesh; body”) + 泉 (“spring; fountain; source; producer of liquid”), together expressing the idea “part of the body that produces liquid secretions”.

    Kanji
    腺

    (common “Jōyō” kanji)

    1. gland

    Readings
    • Kan’yō-on: せん (sen, Jōyō)

    Compounds
    Compounds

    Etymology
    Kanji in this term
    腺
    せん
    Grade: S
    kan’yōon

    See Glyph origin above. The reading sen is based on the kan'on of the 泉 base.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    腺(せん) • (sen) 

    1. (anatomy) gland

    Descendants
    • → Chinese: 腺 (xiàn)
    • → Korean: 선(腺) (seon)
    • → Vietnamese: tuyến

    References
    1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

    Korean

    Etymology

    Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 腺(せん) (sen).

    Pronunciation

    Hanja

    Wikisource 腺 (eumhun 샘 선 (saem seon))

    1. Hanja form? of 선 (“(anatomy) gland”).

    References
    • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

    Vietnamese

    Han character

    腺: Hán Việt readings: tuyến

    1. gland
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