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Translingual

Han character

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

  1. fence, barrier
  2. defend
  3. idle time

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

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simp.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (73)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
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
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
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
Reading # 1/1
No. 13531
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡreːn/

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Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Compounds


Korean

Hanja

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Vietnamese

Han character

(nhàn, hèn)

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