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U+9650, 限
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9650

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 170, +6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 弓中日女 (NLAV), four-corner 77232, composition )

Derived characters

Further reading

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1350, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41627
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1852, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4128, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+9650

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Pronunciation


Note: hǎn/hān/ān - literary, ān - vernacular (Taiwanese, Xiamen).

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ɕian⁵¹/
Harbin /ɕian⁵³/
Tianjin /ɕian⁵³/
Jinan /ɕiã²¹/
Qingdao /ɕiã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ɕian³¹²/
Xi'an /ɕiã⁴⁴/
Xining /ɕiã²¹³/
Yinchuan /ɕian¹³/
Lanzhou /ɕiɛ̃n¹³/
Ürümqi /ɕian²¹³/
Wuhan /ɕiɛn³⁵/
Chengdu /xan¹³/
/ɕian¹³/
Guiyang /ɕian²¹³/
Kunming /ɕiɛ̃²¹²/
Nanjing /ɕien⁴⁴/
Hefei /ɕiĩ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕie⁴⁵/
Pingyao /ɕiɑŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /ɕie⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ɦe²³/
/ɦie²³/
Suzhou /ɦiɪ³¹/
/ɦe̞³¹/
Hangzhou /ɦiẽ̞¹³/
Wenzhou /ɦa³⁵/
Hui Shexian /ɕie²²/
/xɛ²²/
Tunxi /xɔ¹¹/
/ɕiɛ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /xan⁵⁵/
/xan¹¹/
Xiangtan /han⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /han²¹/
Hakka Meixian /han⁵³/
Taoyuan /hɑn⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /han²²/
Nanning /han²²/
Hong Kong /han²²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /han²²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /aiŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /xaiŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /haŋ³⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /haŋ³³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (73)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Baxter heanX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦˠɛnX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦᵚænX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣænX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦəɨnX/
Li
Rong
/ɣɛnX/
Wang
Li
/ɣænX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣănX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
haan6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xiàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ hɛnX ›
Old
Chinese
/*ˁrəʔ/
English obstacle, limit

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 3916
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡrɯːnʔ/

Definitions

  1. boundary; limit; line
      ―  shàngxiàn  ―  upper limit
  2. to limit; to place a limit (on)
    舅父表弟星期打機最多 [Cantonese, trad.]
    舅父表弟星期打机最多 [Cantonese, simp.]
    kau5 fu6-2 haan6 biu2 dai6 mui5 go3 sing1 kei4 daa2 gei1 zeoi3 do1 daa2 jat1 go3 zung1.
    Uncle limits my little cousin to at most one hour of video games per week.
  3. (literary) doorstep; sill; threshold

Synonyms

  • (boundary):
  • (to limit):
  • (doorstep):

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. limit

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
げん
Grade: 5
goon

Pronunciation

Counter

(げん) (-gen

  1. counter for school periods
    (いち)(げん)()数学(すうがく)だった。
    Ichigenme wa sūgaku datta.
    The first period was maths.

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
きり
Grade: 5
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry: 切り

(The following entry is uncreated: 切り.)

Korean

Hanja

(han) (hangeul , revised han, McCune–Reischauer han, Yale han)

  1. Hanja form? of (limit).

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: hạn, hẹn, giận

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