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Translingual

Han character

(radical 94 +16, 20 strokes, cangjie input 卜月戈大 (YBIK), four-corner 23234, composition)

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 721, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20783
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1133, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1376, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+737B

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*sŋaːl, *hŋans, *ŋrad
*ŋan, *ŋranʔ, *ŋrans
*ŋranʔ, *ŋanʔ
*ŋranʔ, *ŋrans, *ŋrad
*ŋans
*ɦŋʷaːn
*sɡaːd
*ŋaːd, *ŋraːd
*ŋrad, *ŋad

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sŋaːl, *hŋans, *ŋrad) : phonetic  (OC *ŋans) + semantic .

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (16) (32)
Final () (94) (65)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/sɑ/ /hɨɐnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/sɑ/ /hiɐnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/sɑ/ /xiɐnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/sa/ /hɨanH/
Li
Rong
/sɑ/ /xiɐnH/
Wang
Li
/sɑ/ /xĭɐnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/sɑ/ /xɨ̯ɐnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
suō xiàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xiàn xiàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ sa › ‹ xjonH ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-ŋˤar/ /*ŋ̊ar-s/
English to filter wine offer, present

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 14451 14459 14467
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sŋaːl/ /*hŋans/ /*ŋrad/

Definitions

  1. to offer, to present
  2. to show, to display

Compounds


Japanese

Shinjitai
Simplified
Traditional

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(heon, sa) (hangeul 헌, , revised heon, sa, McCune-Reischauer hŏn, sa, Yale hen, sa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(hiến)

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