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閑

閑

See also: 闲, 閒, and 間

Translingual

Han character

閑 (radical 169 門+4, 12 strokes, cangjie input 日弓木 (AND), four-corner 7790₄, composition ⿵門木)

References

KangXi: page 1332, character 2

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41247

Dae Jaweon: page 1837, character 14

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4287, character 3

Unihan data for U+9591

Chinese

trad.		閑
simp.		闲

Alternative forms

閒／闲 (xián)

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): xián (xian²)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): haan⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: xián
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˊ
  - Wade-Giles: hsien²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyan
  - IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: haan⁴
  - Yale: hàahn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: haan⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /hɑːn²¹/

Middle Chinese: /ɦˠɛn/▼

Rime
Character	閑
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	山 (73)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	戸閒切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠɛn/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦᵚæn/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦəɨn/
Li Rong	/ɣɛn/
Wang Li	/ɣæn/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣăn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xián

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*N-kˤre[n]/, /*[ɡ]ˤra[n]/

(Zhengzhang): /*ɡreːn/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	閑	閑	閑	閑
Reading #	1/4	2/4	3/4	4/4
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xián	xián	xián	xián
Middle Chinese	‹ hɛn ›	‹ hɛn ›	‹ hɛn ›	‹ hɛn ›
Old Chinese	/*N-kˤre[n]/	/*[ɡ]ˤra[n]/	/*[ɡ]ˤra[n]/	/*[ɡ]ˤra[n]/
English	idle	great; large-minded	well-trained	bar, barrier
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	閑
Reading #	1/1
No.	13531
Phonetic component	閑
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	閑
Old Chinese	/*ɡreːn/

Definitions

閑

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Japanese

Kanji

閑

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Goon: げん (gen)

Kan’on: かん (kan)

Kun: しきり (shikiri), しずか (shizuka), ならう (narau)

Compounds

閑人/暇人 (ひまじん, himajin)

Korean

Hanja

閑 • ‎(han) (hangeul 한, revised han, McCune-Reischauer han, Yale han)

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Vietnamese

Han character

閑 (nhàn, hèn)

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