膳

膳 · shàn

meals, provisions, board

Entry ↗

Meanings & readings

Meaning & readings

Mandarin
shàn
Cantonese
sin6
Definition source
Unihan kDefinition

meals, provisions, board

Dictionary definitions & readings

膳 shàn · meals

膳 shàn · variant of 膳 shàn

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Readings & dictionary references

HDZ · Mandarin readings and locators
32113.110:shàn Source property ↗
XHC 1983 · Mandarin readings and locators
0999.050:shàn Source property ↗
TGHZ 2013 · Mandarin readings and locators
325.130:shàn Source property ↗
SMSZD 2003 · Mandarin and Cantonese
shàn粵sin6 Source property ↗
Japanese · kana
ゼン セン Source property ↗
Korean · Hangul
선:0N Source property ↗
Fanqie pairs
時戰 Source property ↗
Cangjie input code
BTGR Source property ↗
Four-corner lookup codes
7826.5 Source property ↗
Kangxi · dictionary positions
0995.010 Source property ↗
Song Ben Guang Yun · dictionary positions
409.17 Source property ↗
Grammata Serica Recensa · references
0205d Source property ↗

Form & structure

Writing & identity

Unicode
U+81B3
Radical
肉 · 130
Strokes
16
Residual strokes
12
Standard list
通用规范汉字表 · level 2 · #6136

Source record, not an individually reviewed etymological dossier.

Stroke order

16 strokes
膳
Strokes
16
Convention
PRC · Make Me a Hanzi

16 strokes in writing order. Play to watch them, or Step through one at a time.

Modern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.

Words & connections

Dictionary & examples

History & distinctions

Related forms

No simplified/traditional variant assertion retained.

Historical readings

Middle Chinese
dzyenH · 時戰 · 山開三去仙常 · #2715

PHONO-ML, source line 15012; CC BY 4.0. Source-generated reading categories, not modern pronunciation. Attribution & limitations.

Sources & reference

Evidence

Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3 · Official-list coverage

Exact Unihan properties
kCihaiT
1104.207
kDaeJaweon
1446.150
kFennIndex
436.02
kGSR
0205d
kHanYu
32113.110
kIRGDaeJaweon
1446.150
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
32113.110
kIRGKangXi
0995.010
kKangXi
0995.010
kLau
2810
kMatthews
5659
kMeyerWempe
2722
kMorohashi
29891
kNelson
3817
kSBGY
409.17
kSMSZD2003Index
561.05
kCangjie
BTGR
kFenn
152G
kFourCornerCode
7826.5
kHKGlyph
3341
kMojiJoho
MJ021230
kPhonetic
1203
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRG_GSource
G0-4945
kIRG_HSource
HB1-BFAF
kIRG_JSource
J0-4137
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-E2C5
kIRG_KSource
K0-604E
kIRG_TSource
T1-7177
kRSUnicode
130.12
kTotalStrokes
16
kBigFive
BFAF
kCCCII
215370
kCNS1986
1-7177
kCNS1992
1-7177
kEACC
215370
kGB0
4137
kGB1
4137
kJis0
3323
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanName
2015
kMainlandTelegraph
5234
kTGH
2013:6136
kTaiwanTelegraph
5234
kXerox
262:305
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+2745+130.4.12
kCantonese
sin6
kDefinition
meals, provisions, board
kFanqie
時戰
kHangul
선:0N
kHanyuPinyin
32113.110:shàn
kJapanese
ゼン セン
kJapaneseKun
SUSUMERU SONAERU
kJapaneseOn
SEN ZEN
kKorean
SEN
kMandarin
shàn
kSMSZD2003Readings
shàn粵sin6
kTGHZ2013
325.130:shàn
kTang
zhiɛ̀n
kXHC1983
0999.050:shàn
kSemanticVariant
U+994D<kLau,kMatthews

Sentences in context

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Structure & connections

0.10
8dictionary records using 膳0forms using this shape1attributed sound links
⿰ Left / right

Shape description
月 beside 善 · the shape used in China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea
Source notation ^⿰月善$(GJKP)
BabelStone · 2025-06-27. Encoded shape and region tags; graphical analysis does not establish historical function.

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Retained descriptions & scope

^⿰月善$(GJKP)

^⿰⺼善$(HT)

All alternatives are retained. Only the first description drives component search and graphical links. Counts describe this snapshot, not frequency. Evidence and method.