玄

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Radical 95 玄

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

1. Kangxi radical #95, ⽞.

• Appendix:Chinese radical/玄
• 伭, 呟, 𡊨, 妶, 𪨬, 𢂄, 弦, 怰, 𢫔, 泫, 㹡, 𨸫, 𣃡, 昡, 𣐙, 𪵚, 炫, 玹, 胘, 𥙆, 眩, 𥎸, 𪿖, 𮃀, 袨, 絃, 𦍫, 舷, 蚿, 𧣙, 詃(𬣤), 䝮, 𧺻, 鉉(铉), 䩙, 𩗁, 䮄(𫠊), 𩨬, 鮌, 𪐷, 𪗰
• 𠛑, 𠡆, 𮟴, 𩑹, 䲻, 𠅋, 畜, 𦬾, 𣆂, 䍗, 𠣖, 痃, 衒, 牽, 𨴋, 𡇎

Naming taboo (避諱 / 避讳); the last dot in 玄 was omitted to avoid using the same character in the Kangxi Emperor's personal name, which was 玄燁 / 玄烨, therefore producing 𤣥 (xuán).

This was also applied to derived characters; characters like 弦 and 畜 were also missing the last dot in 玄 (xuán) during this time.

This also produced 𤍞 (yè) < 燁 / 烨 (yè).

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

Historical forms of the character 玄
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogram (指事), two intervowen threads 幺 and a distinguishing mark 亠 on top. The whole character should represent a rope, as seen in 率 and 弦. However, this rope is different from 己 and 乃.

Unknown. The oldest basic color term for "black" which was later replaced by 黑 (OC *hmlɯːɡ) (Schuessler, 2007).

One of its derivations is 袨 (OC *ɡʷeːn, “a kind of black formal wear”).

玄

1. deep; profound; mysterious
2. black; reddish black

   • 七月鳴鵙、八月載績。載玄載黃、我朱孔陽、為公子裳。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     七月鸣𱉐、八月载绩。载玄载黄、我朱孔阳、为公子裳。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on Bernhard Karlgren's version

     Qīyuè míng jú, bāyuè zǎi jì. Zǎi xuán zǎi huáng, wǒ zhū kǒng yáng, wèi gōngzǐ shang.

     In the seventh month there is the crying shrike; in the eighth month we spin, both black and yellow; our red-dye is very bright; we make skirts for the young noblemen.

3. sky
4. a surname

• “玄”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 李如龙 , 刘福铸 , 吴华英 , 黄国城 (2019) “玄”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 230.

(Jōyō kanji)

1. mysterious
2. occultness

• Go-on: げん (gen, Jōyō)^{←げん (gen, historical)←ぐゑん (gwen, ancient)}
• Kan-on: けん (ken)
• Kun: くろ (kuro, 玄)、くろい (kuroi, 玄い)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

玄

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

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玄: Hán Việt readings: huyền

1. chữ Hán form of huyền (“mysterious”).