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玄

玄

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

玄 (radical 95 玄+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 卜女戈 (YVI), four-corner 00732)

  1. deep, profound, abstruse
  2. Kangxi radical #95, ⽞ ‎(“profound”).

Derived characters

See also

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 725, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20814
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1134, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 280, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7384

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 玄

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 玄
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (玄) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
弦 *ɡeːn
絃 *ɡeːn, *qʰʷeːn
舷 *ɡeːn
痃 *ɡeːn
胘 *ɡeːn, *ɡʷeːn
蚿 *ɡeːn
伭 *ɡeːn
婱 *ɡeːn
玄 *ɡʷeːn
眩 *ɡʷeːn, *ɡʷeːn
玹 *ɡʷeːn, *ɡʷeːn
玆 *ɡʷeːn
詃 *kʷeːn
泫 *ɡʷeːn
鉉 *ɡʷeːn
炫 *ɡʷeːn
袨 *ɡʷeːn
衒 *ɡʷeːn
惤 *ɡʷreːŋ

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 玄
Mandarin Beijing /ɕyan³⁵/
Harbin /ɕyan²⁴/
Tianjin /ɕyan⁴⁵/
Jinan /ɕyã⁴²/
Qingdao /ɕyã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ɕyan⁴²/
Xi'an /ɕyã²⁴/
Xining /ɕyã²⁴/
Yinchuan /ɕyan⁵³/
Lanzhou /ɕyɛ̃n⁵³/
Ürümqi /ɕyan⁵¹/
Wuhan /ɕiɛn²¹³/
Chengdu /ɕyan³¹/
Guiyang /ɕian²¹/
Kunming /ɕiɛ̃³¹/
Nanjing /ɕyen⁴⁴/
Hefei /ɕyĩ⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕye¹¹/
Pingyao /ɕye̞¹³/
Hohhot /ɕye³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɦi²³/
/ɦyø²³/
Suzhou /ɦiø¹³/
Hangzhou /ɦyõ²¹³/
Wenzhou /jy³¹/
Hui Shexian /ɕye⁴⁴/
Tunxi /ɕyɛ⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /ɕyẽ¹³/
Xiangtan /ɕyẽ¹²/
Gan Nanchang /ɕyɵn⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /hian¹¹/
Taoyuan /hien¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jyn²¹/
Nanning /yn²¹/
Hong Kong /jyn²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hian³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /hieŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xyiŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /hiaŋ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hin³¹/
Rime
Character 玄
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 先 (86)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 胡涓切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦwen/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦʷen/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣuɛn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦwɛn/
Li
Rong		 /ɣuen/
Wang
Li		 /ɣiwen/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣiwen/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xuán
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 玄
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xuán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hwen ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ]ʷˤi[n]/
English dark

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 玄
Reading # 1/1
No. 14029
Phonetic
component		 玄
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 玄
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡʷeːn/

Definitions

玄

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Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

玄

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. mysterious
  2. occultness

Readings

Korean

Hanja

玄 • ‎(hyeon) (hangeul 현, revised hyeon, McCune-Reischauer hyŏn, Yale hyen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

玄 (huyền)

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