栴
栴 — jeon
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 향나무 전
- Romanization
- jeon
- English
- sandalwood
- Mandarin
- zhān
- Japanese on'yomi
- セン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- もみじ
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 木 (75, 6 residual)
- Unicode
- U+6834
How 栴 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 栴 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 木, 旃.
Japanese words with 栴
- 栴檀せんだん chinaberry; Japanese bead tree (Melia azedarach); Indian sandalwood (Santalum album)
- 栴檀は双葉より芳しせんだんはふたばよりかんばし genius shows from childhood; the Japanese bead tree is fragrant from when a sprout
Other hanja read “전”
Other hanja with radical 木
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