軒

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See also: 轩
軒 U+8ED2, 軒
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8ED2
← 軑
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 軓 →

Translingual

Han character

軒 (Kangxi radical 159, 車+3, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十十一十 (JJMJ), four-corner 51040, composition ⿰車干)

Derived characters

Further reading

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1240, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38187
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1715, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3514, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+8ED2

Chinese

trad. 軒
simp. 轩
alternative forms 䡓／𲀝
𨍓
𩋱

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (干) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
訐 *krads, *krads, *ked, *kad
肝 *kaːn
竿 *kaːn
干 *kaːn
奸 *kaːn
玕 *kaːn
汗 *kaːn, *ɡaːn, *ɡaːns
迀 *kaːn
忓 *kaːn, *ɡaːns
鳱 *kaːn
邗 *kaːn, *ɡaːn
秆 *kaːnʔ
矸 *kaːnʔ, *kaːns, *ɡaːns
仠 *kaːnʔ
皯 *kaːnʔ
衦 *kaːnʔ
簳 *kaːnʔ
擀 *kaːnʔ
旰 *kaːns
盰 *kaːns
幹 *kaːns
杆 *kaːns
骭 *kaːns, *ɡraːns
桿 *kaːnʔ
趕 *kaːnʔ
稈 *kaːnʔ
刊 *kʰaːn
靬 *kʰaːn, *kʰaːns, *kreːn, *kan
衎 *kʰaːnʔ, *kʰaːns
犴 *ŋaːn, *ŋaːns
豻 *ŋaːn, *ŋaːns, *ɦŋaːns, *ŋ̊ʰraːn
頇 *ŋaːns, *hŋaːn, *ŋaːd
岸 *ŋɡaːns
鼾 *qʰaːn, *ɢaːns
罕 *qʰaːnʔ, *qʰaːns
焊 *qʰaːnʔ, *ɡaːns
蔊 *qʰaːnʔ
虷 *ɡaːn
旱 *ɡaːnʔ
皔 *ɡaːnʔ
釬 *ɡaːns
扞 *ɡaːns
閈 *ɡaːns
馯 *ɡaːns, *kʰraːn
捍 *ɡaːns, *ɡraːnʔ
悍 *ɡaːns
銲 *ɡaːns
垾 *ɡaːns
駻 *ɡaːns
睅 *ɡʷranʔ
娨 *ɡraːns
飦 *kan
赶 *ɡan, *ɡʷad
軒 *qʰan
蓒 *qʰan
酐 *qʰaːŋʔ
澣 *ɡʷaːnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qʰan): semantic 車 (“carriage”) + phonetic 干 (OC *kaːn)

Pronunciation 1

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 軒
Mandarin Beijing /ɕyan⁵⁵/
Harbin /ɕyan⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ɕyan²¹/
Jinan /ɕyã²¹³/
Qingdao /ɕyã²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ɕyan²⁴/
Xi'an /ɕyã²¹/
Xining /ɕyã⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ɕyan⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ɕyɛ̃n³¹/
Ürümqi /ɕyan⁴⁴/
Wuhan /ɕiɛn⁵⁵/
/ɕyɛn⁵⁵/
Chengdu /ɕyan⁵⁵/
Guiyang /ɕian⁵⁵/
Kunming /ɕiɛ̃⁴⁴/
Nanjing /ɕyen³¹/
Hefei /ɕyĩ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕye¹¹/
Pingyao
Hohhot /ɕye³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɕi⁵³/
Suzhou /ɕiɪ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ɕiẽ̞³³/
Wenzhou /ɕi³³/
Hui Shexian /ɕie³¹/
Tunxi /ɕyɛ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ɕiẽ³³/
Xiangtan /ɕyẽ³³/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /hian⁴⁴/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /hin⁵³/
Nanning /hyn⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /hin⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /hian³⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /hyoŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /xyiŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /hɯŋ³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /hin²³/
Rime
Character 軒
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 元 (65)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 虚言切
Baxter xjon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/hɨɐn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/hiɐn/
Shao
Rongfen 		/xiɐn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/hɨan/
Li
Rong 		/xiɐn/
Wang
Li 		/xĭɐn/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/xɨ̯ɐn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xiān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		hin1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 軒
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		xuān
Middle
Chinese 		‹ xjon ›
Old
Chinese 		/*qʰa/
English nobleman"s carriage

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 軒
Reading # 1/1
No. 3641
Phonetic
component 		干
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		軒
Old
Chinese 		/*qʰan/

Definitions

軒

  1. (historical) a kind of high-fronted, curtained carriage in ancient China, especially used by nobles
  2. high; lofty; airy
  3. (literary) window; door
  4. small room or veranda with windows (formerly used in names of studies, teahouses, restaurants, etc.)
  5. a surname

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

軒

  1. (historical) meat sliced in large pieces
    See also: 膾

References

  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “轩”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 269.

Japanese

Kanji

軒

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: こん (kon)
  • Kan-on: けん (ken, Jōyō)
  • Kun: のき (noki, 軒, Jōyō)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
軒
けん
Grade: S
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 軒 (MC xjon).

Pronunciation

Counter

軒(けん) • (-ken) 

  1. counter for buildings like houses
    寄付(きふ)を募(つの)るため、数(すう)軒(けん)の家(いえ)を回(まわ)った。
    Kifu o tsunoru tame, sūken no ie o mawatta.
    We visited several houses to raise donations.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
軒
のき
Grade: S
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 軒 – see the following entry.
【のき】
eaves
narrow aisle surrounding the core of a temple building
Alternative spellings
簷, 檐, 宇
(This term, 軒, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Etymology 1

From Middle Chinese 軒 (MC xjon). Recorded as Middle Korean 헌 (hen) (Yale: hen) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

軒 (eumhun 추녀 헌 (chunyeo heon))

  1. (literary) hanja form? of 헌 (“eaves”)
  2. (literary) hanja form? of 헌 (“type of carriage in ancient China”)
Compounds

Etymology 2

From Middle Chinese 軒 (MC hjonH).

Hanja

軒 (eumhun 고기 저밀 헌 (gogi jeomil heon))

  1. (archaic) hanja form? of 헌 (“to slice meat in large portions”)

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

軒: Hán Việt readings: hiên (虛(hư)延(diên)切(thiết))[1][2][3][4][5]
軒: Nôm readings: hiên[1][2][3][4], hen[3][6][5], hên[3]

  1. chữ Hán form of hiên (“veranda”).

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nguyễn (2014).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Nguyễn et al. (2009).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Trần (2004).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Bonet (1899).
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Génibrel (1898).
  6. ^ Hồ (1976).
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