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仙 (Kangxi radical 9,人+3, 5 strokes,cangjie input人山 (OU),four-corner2227₀,composition⿰亻山)

• 𣳈,苮,𥬍,𬏣

• 僊(archaic form of 仙)

• Kangxi Dictionary:page 92, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 374
• Dae Jaweon: page 196, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 114, character 3
• Unihan data for U+4ED9

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Historical forms of the character仙
Transcribed ancient scripts L31826 L31827 L31828 L06560 L06561 L06562 L06563 L06564 L06565
References: Mostly from Richard Sears'Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意) andphono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声,OC*sen): semantic 亻(“person”) + phonetic 山(OC*sreːn,“mountain”) — a person moving into a mountain to practise becoming immortal.

Originally僊. The current form is first attested in the clerical script of the Han dynasty.

A relatively late word, perhapsSino-Tibetan (Schuessler, 2007). CompareTibetanགཤེན(gshen,“shaman”), as inTibetanགཤེན་རབ(gshen rab,“Shenrab”), the founder of the Tibetan religionBon, although this might be a loan from Chinese (ibid.).

Starostin sets upProto-Sino-Tibetan*s[ă]n(“a kind of demon”), comparing it toTibetanབསེན་མོ(bsen mo,“female devil”) andJingphosawn(“malignant femalenat”). Note also, along similar lines,Burmeseစုန်း(cun:,“witch”).

仙

1. (Taoism)xian(animmortal;celestialbeing)
2. (figurative)extraordinary person

   詩仙／诗仙  ― shīxiān  ―  great poet; epithet ofLi Bai

3. (agent affix, chiefly Southern Min, honorific)expert; atitle for a person with a specificexpertise

   相命仙[Taiwanese Hokkien]  ― siòng-miā-sian[Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  fortuneteller

4. (agent affix, chiefly Southern Min, ironic) person with some specifichobby oraddiction

   筊仙[Taiwanese Hokkien]  ― kiáu-sian[Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  gambler

5. a euphemism for thedeceased

   仙逝  ― xiānshì  ―  to pass away

6. (Southern Min)Classifier for deity, idol, statue, doll.alternative form of身(sian)

   Synonym:尊(zūn)

   大仙的王爺公，細仙的王爺囝。[Taiwanese Hokkien,trad.]
   大仙的王爷公，细仙的王爷囝。[Taiwanese Hokkien,simp.]

   Tōasian--ê ông-iâ kong, sèsian--ê ông-iâ kiáⁿ.[Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

   (idiomatic) Idols ofWang Ye's are everywhere. Literally,“The bigger idol is a senior Wang Ye; the smaller idol is a junior Wang Ye.”

7. (Southern Min)(with negative)whatsoever,any way

   仙講都毋聽／仙讲都毋听[Taiwanese Hokkien]  ― sian kóng to m̄ thiaⁿ[Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  won't listen (to you) no matter what you say

8. asurname

Others:

• → Thai:เซียน(siian) (via Hokkien)

• 真人 (zhēnrén)

Borrowed fromEnglishcent.

仙

1. (Cantonese, Southern Min, Malaysian and Singapore Mandarin)cent(Classifier:個／个c)

   五仙硬幣／五仙硬币[Cantonese]  ― ng⁵sin¹ ngaang⁶ bai⁶[Jyutping]  ―  five-cent coin

   佢係私生子，佢老豆死嗰陣一個仙都冇分畀佢。[Cantonese,trad.]
   佢系私生子，佢老豆死嗰阵一个仙都冇分畀佢。[Cantonese,simp.]

   keoi⁵ hai⁶ si¹ sang¹ zi², keoi⁵ lou⁵ dau⁶ sei² go² zan⁶ jat¹ go³sin¹ dou¹ mou⁵ fan¹ bei² keoi⁵.[Jyutping]

   He is a son born out of wedlock, so when his dad died, he didn't even inherit onecent.

• 斗零,神沙,鏰／镚 (bèng)

From clipping ofEnglishsenior.

仙(Hong Kong Cantonese, universityslang)

1. senior
2. (of a senior) toberate ajunior

• “仙”, in漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1],香港中文大學 (theChinese University of Hong Kong),2014–
• 李如龙[Li, Ru-long];刘福铸[Liu, Fu-zhu];吴华英[Wu, Hua-ying];黄国城[Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “仙”, in莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min),Xiamen University Press,→ISBN, page213.

(Jōyō kanji)

• Go-on:せん(sen,Jōyō)
• Kan-on:せん(sen,Jōyō)
• Nanori:そま(soma)、のり(nori)、ひさ(hisa)

FromMiddle Chinese仙 (MC sjen, literally “immortal”). Compare modernMandarin readingxiān andCantonese readingsin¹.

• IPA^(key): [sẽ̞ɴ]

仙(せん)• (sen) 

1. asage orhermit, anenlightened person, usuallyimmortal andageless
2. (mythology) short for仙人(sennin): awizard ormage; animmortal living as ahermit in themountains
3. by extension, the region or area where asennin lives
4. thesupernatural techniques for becomingimmortal andageless
5. a person ofexceptionaltalent

Borrowed fromEnglishcent.^[1][2] The kanji spelling is an example ofjukujikun.

This word is almost always spelled in katakana asセント.

• 弗(ドル)(doru)

• “^△仙”, in漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese),The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation,2015–2025

FromMiddle Chinese仙 (MC sjen). Recorded asMiddle Korean션(syen) (Yale:syen) inHunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

• (SK Standard/Seoul)IPA^(key):[sʰʌ̹n]
• Phonetic hangul:[선]

KoreanWikisource has texts containing thehanja:

仙

仙 (eumhun신선선(sinseon seon))

1. hanja form^? of선(“asage orhermit, anenlightened person, usuallyimmortal andageless”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary,전자사전／電子字典.[3]

仙:Hán Nôm readings:tiên

仙

1. xian,Immortal(Taoism)
2. fairy
3. celestial

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