賤

See also: 贱 and 賎
賤 U+8CE4, 賤
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8CE4
← 賣
[U+8CE3] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 賥 →
[U+8CE5]

Translingual
Traditional 賤
Shinjitai
(extended)		 賎
Simplified 贱

Han character

賤 (radical 154, 貝+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 月金戈戈 (BCII), four-corner 63853, composition ⿰貝戔)

References
  • KangXi: page 1209, character 35
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36826
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1675, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3647, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+8CE4

Chinese
trad. 賤
simp. 贱

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (戔) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
殘 *zlaːn, *zaːns
戔 *zlaːn
帴 *zlaːn, *saːns, *ʔslenʔ, *ʔsleːn, *sreːd
虥 *zreːn, *zreːn, *zreːnʔ, *zraːns
盞 *ʔsreːnʔ
醆 *ʔsreːnʔ, *ʔljenʔ
琖 *ʔsreːnʔ
剗 *sʰreːnʔ
棧 *zreːnʔ, *zraːns, *zrenʔ
輚 *zreːnʔ, *zraːns
嶘 *zreːnʔ
錢 *ʔslenʔ, *zlen
俴 *ʔslenʔ, *zlenʔ
籛 *ʔslenʔ, *ʔslens, *ʔsleːn
淺 *sʰlenʔ, *ʔsleːn
濺 *ʔsens, *ʔseːn
踐 *zlenʔ
諓 *zlenʔ, *zlens
餞 *zlenʔ, *zlens
賤 *zlens
綫 *slens
箋 *ʔsleːn
牋 *ʔsleːn

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *zlens) : semantic 貝 + phonetic 戔 (OC *zlaːn).

Pronunciation
Rime
Character 賤
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 從 (15)
Final (韻) 仙 (77)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 才線切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ziᴇnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡ziɛnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡zjænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡zianH/
Li
Rong		 /d͡ziɛnH/
Wang
Li		 /d͡zĭɛnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /d͡zʱi̯ɛnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiàn
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 賤
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzjenH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[dz][a][n]-s/
English cheap; low, mean

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 賤
Reading # 1/1
No. 6008
Phonetic
component		 戔
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 賤
Old
Chinese		 /*zlens/

Definitions

賤

  1. cheap; inexpensive
  2. lowly; low-ranking; poor; plebeian
  3. bad; inferior; poor
  4. mean; base; despicable; obnoxious
  5. (humble) my
  6. (Min) naughty; restless
  7. to look down upon; to despise
  8. to hate; to detest
  9. A surname​.

Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 便宜 (“cheap”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 便宜, 低廉
Mandarin Beijing 便宜, 賤
Taiwan 便宜
Jinan 便宜, 賤
Xi'an 便宜, 賤
Wuhan 便宜, 相因
Chengdu 相因, 便宜
Yangzhou 便宜, 划廉
Hefei 巧, 便宜
Cantonese Guangzhou 平
Hong Kong 平
Taishan 平
Yangjiang 平, 平宜
Gan Nanchang 便宜
Hakka Meixian 便宜, 平
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 便宜
Liudui (S. Sixian) 便宜
Hsinchu (Hailu) 便宜
Dongshi (Dabu) 便宜
Hsinchu (Raoping) 便宜
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 便宜
Jin Taiyuan 便宜, 賤
Min Bei Jian'ou 便宜
Min Dong Fuzhou 便宜
Matsu 便宜
Min Nan Xiamen 俗, 便宜
Quanzhou 俗, 便宜
Zhangzhou 俗, 便宜
Taipei 俗
Kaohsiung 俗
Tainan 俗
Taichung 俗
Wuqi 俗
Hsinchu 俗
Taitung 俗
Lukang 俗
Sanxia 俗
Yilan 俗, 便宜
Kinmen 俗
Magong 俗, 便宜
Penang 便宜
Singapore 偏
Philippines (Manila) 俗
Chaozhou 便
Wu Shanghai 𠼢, 便宜
Suzhou 便宜, 𠼢
Wenzhou 倯, 便宜
Xiang Changsha 便宜
Shuangfeng 便宜, 賤

Antonyms

Hypernyms

Compounds
Derived terms from 賤

Japanese

Shinjitai

 賤

Kyūjitai

 賎

Kanji
賤

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 賎)

  1. cheap, worthless
  2. low-ranking, inferior, humble, plebeian
  3. to despise; to look down upon

Readings

Korean

Hanja

賤 • (cheon) (hangeul 천)

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Vietnamese

Han character

賤 (tiện)

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