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See also:
U+7384, 玄
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7384

CJK Unified Ideographs
U+2F5E, ⽞
KANGXI RADICAL PROFOUND

Kangxi Radicals

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

  1. Kangxi radical #95, .

Derived characters

References

  • 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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alternative forms 𤣥 Kangxi Dictionary
𢆯
𠵓

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
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 and a distinguishing mark on top. The whole character should represent a rope, as seen in and . However, this rope is different from and .

Etymology

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

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

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ɕyan³⁵/
Harbin /ɕyan²⁴/
Tianjin /ɕyan⁴⁵/
Jinan /ɕyã⁴²/
Qingdao /ɕyã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ɕyan⁴²/
Xi'an /ɕyã²⁴/
Xining /ɕyã²⁴/
Yinchuan /ɕyan⁵³/
Lanzhou /ɕyɛ̃n⁵³/
Ürümqi /ɕyan⁵¹/
Wuhan /ɕiɛn²¹³/
Chengdu /ɕyan³¹/
Guiyang /ɕian²¹/
Kunming /ɕiɛ̃³¹/
Nanjing /ɕyen⁴⁴/
Hefei /ɕyĩ⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕye¹¹/
Pingyao /ɕye̞¹³/
Hohhot /ɕye³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɦi²³/
/ɦyø²³/
Suzhou /ɦiø¹³/
Hangzhou /ɦyõ²¹³/
Wenzhou /jy³¹/
Hui Shexian /ɕye⁴⁴/
Tunxi /ɕyɛ⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /ɕyẽ¹³/
Xiangtan /ɕyẽ¹²/
Gan Nanchang /ɕyɵn⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /hian¹¹/
Taoyuan /hien¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jyn²¹/
Nanning /yn²¹/
Hong Kong /jyn²¹/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /hian³⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /hieŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /xyiŋ²¹/
Shantou (Teochew) /hiaŋ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /hin³¹/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (86)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () IV
Fanqie
Baxter hwen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦwen/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦʷen/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣuɛn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦwɛn/
Li
Rong
/ɣuen/
Wang
Li
/ɣiwen/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣiwen/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xuán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jyun4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xuán
Middle
Chinese
‹ hwen ›
Old
Chinese
/*ʷˁi/
English dark

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. 14029
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡʷeːn/

Definitions

  1. deep; profound; mysterious
  2. black; reddish black
  3. sky
  4. a surname

Compounds

References

  • ”, 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–
  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 270.

Japanese

Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. mysterious
  2. occultness

Readings

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

Korean

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

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

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Vietnamese

Chữ Hán

: Hán Việt readings: huyền

  1. chữ Hán form of huyền (mysterious).

Compounds