Character: 鮮
Modern (Beijing) reading: xiān
Preclassic Old Chinese: shar
Classic Old Chinese: shan
Western Han Chinese: shan
Eastern Han Chinese: shjan
Early Postclassic Chinese: shjen
Middle Postclassic Chinese: shjen
Late Postclassic Chinese: shjen
Middle Chinese: sjen
English meaning : be fresh
Russian meaning[s]: 1) свежий (о цветах; о пище); новый, молодой; вкусный; свежая рыба; парное мясо; 2) Сянь (фамилия); [xiǎn] 1) редкий; мало; сиротливый; 2) истощиться; 3) умереть насильственной смертью
Comments: Also read *s(h)arʔ 'be rare, few; exceptional, special, good; solitary'. Viet. presents an interesting case of -i for OC -n < *-r (cf. an analogous case in 蒜 'garlic'). Standard Sino-Viet. is tiên. For *sh- cf. Min reflexes: Xiamen, Chaozhou chĩ1.
Radical: 195
Four-angle index: 2509
Karlgren code: 0209 a-c
Go-on: sen
Kan-on: sen
Japanese reading: sen+;azayaka+
Vietnamese reading: tu'o'i
Shijing occurrences: 43.1_
