繕

繕 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 女火廿土口 (VFTGR) or 女火廿廿口 (VFTTR), four-corner 2896₁, composition ⿰糹善)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 938, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27893
• Dae Jaweon: page 1377, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3454, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7E55

Historical forms of the character 繕
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡjens) : semantic 糸 (“thread; textile”) + phonetic 善 (OC *ɡjenʔ, “good”). Also Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : to repair; to make good.

Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *glan (“to repair”), cognate to Tibetan གླན་པ (glan pa, “to patch; to mend”) and related forms (Gong 1995; STEDT).

繕

1. to repair; to mend
2. to copy neatly; to transcribe
3. ^† to prepare; to renovate
4. ^† to keep; to maintain
5. ^† firm; resolute

• “繕”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jōyō kanji)

1. darning
2. repair

• Go-on: ぜん (zen, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: せん (sen)
• Kun: つくろう (tsukurou, 繕う, Jōyō)^{←つくろふ (tukurofu, 繕ふ, historical)}

繕 • (seon) (hangeul 선, revised seon, McCune–Reischauer sŏn, Yale sen)

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繕: Hán Việt readings: thiện^[1][2][3][4]

1. chữ Hán form of thiện (“repair, transcribe neatly”).