粲
Meanings
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- 1.beautiful
- 2.bright
- 3.splendid
- 4.smilingly
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Wiktionary
- 1.polished white rice
- 2.bright; radiant
- 3.beautiful; splendid
- 4.smiling; beaming
- 5.numerous; multitudinous
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *sʰaːns): phonetic 𣦼 (cán) + semantic 米 (“rice”). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-sal (“clear, bright, pleasant”) (Unger, 1990; Schuessler, 2007; STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan སལ་བ། (sal ba, “clear, distinct, bright”). Benedict, 1972 compares this with Tibetan མཚར་བ (mtshar ba, “bright, shining, beautiful”) yet this isn't preferrable consider Middle Chinese *tsʰ- corresponds to Written Tibetan gs-. Luce, 1981 considers the "polished white rice" sense to be related to Burmese ဆန် (hcan, “uncooked white rice”), perhaps referring to the "clear and bright" nature of uncooked rice. Same word as 燦 (OC *sʰaːns).
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