燦燦

Chinese

		glorious; bright; brilliant glorious; bright; brilliant; lustrous; resplendent	glorious; bright; brilliant glorious; bright; brilliant; lustrous; resplendent
trad. (燦燦)		燦	燦
simp. (灿灿)		灿	灿

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): càncàn

(Zhuyin): ㄘㄢˋ ㄘㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): caan³ caan³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: càncàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄘㄢˋ ㄘㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: càncàn
  - Wade–Giles: tsʻan⁴-tsʻan⁴
  - Yale: tsàn-tsàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsanntsann
  - Palladius: цаньцань (canʹcanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰän⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡sʰän⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: caan³ caan³
  - Yale: chaan chaan
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsaan³ tsaan³
  - Guangdong Romanization: can³ can³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaːn³³ t͡sʰaːn³³/

Middle Chinese: tshanH tshanH

Rime
Character	燦
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	寒 (61)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	蒼案切
Baxter	tshanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰɑn^H/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰɑn^H/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰɑn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰan^H/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰɑn^H/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰɑn^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰɑn^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	càn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	caan³

Adjective

燦燦

(ideophonic) glistening; lustrous

Derived terms

光燦燦／光灿灿
晶燦燦／晶灿灿
白燦燦／白灿灿
金燦燦／金灿灿 (jīncàncàn)
黃燦燦／黄灿灿

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (燦燦):

→ Japanese: 燦々(さんさん) (sansan)
→ Korean: 찬찬(燦燦) (chanchan)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
燦	燦
さん Jinmeiyō	さん Jinmeiyō
on’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 燦燦 – see the following entry.

【燦々さんさん】

[adjective] brilliant, bright

Alternative spellings
粲々, 粲粲

(This term, 燦燦, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

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