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Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

  1. deep, profound, abstruse
  2. Kangxi radical #95, (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.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ɡeːn
*ɡeːn, *qʰʷeːn
*ɡeːn
*ɡeːn
*ɡeːn, *ɡʷeːn
*ɡeːn
*ɡeːn
*ɡeːn
*ɡʷeːn
*ɡʷeːn, *ɡʷeːn
*ɡʷeːn, *ɡʷeːn
*ɡʷeːn
*kʷeːn
*ɡʷeːn
*ɡʷeːn
*ɡʷeːn
*ɡʷeːn
*ɡʷeːn
*ɡʷreːŋ

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
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
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (86)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () IV
Fanqie
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
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
Reading # 1/1
No. 14029
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡʷeːn/

Definitions

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Compounds

References


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. mysterious
  2. occultness

Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(huyền)

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