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幵

幵

See also: 开, 井, and 幷

Translingual

Han character

幵 (radical 51 干+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 一十一十 (MJMJ), four-corner 10440, composition ⿰干干)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 340, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9169
  • Dae Jaweon: page 649, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 408, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5E75

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 幵

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 幵
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (幵) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
笄 *kŋeː
枅 *kŋeː
蚈 *kŋeː, *ŋ̥ʰeːn
羿 *ŋeːs
栞 *ŋ̥ʰaːn
雃 *ŋaːn, *ŋ̥ʰeːn
詽 *ŋreːn, *tŋ̥ʰeːn
揅 *ŋeːn
幵 *kŋeːn
鳽 *kŋeːn, *ŋeːn, *ŋ̥ʰreːŋ, *ŋreːɡ
豣 *kŋeːn, *ŋeːns
麉 *kŋeːn, *ŋ̥ʰeːn
趼 *kŋeːnʔ, *ŋeːn, *ŋeːns
汧 *ŋ̥ʰeːn, *ŋ̥ʰeːns
岍 *ŋ̥ʰeːn
研 *ŋɡeːn, *ŋeːns
妍 *ŋeːn
訮 *hŋeːn
鈃 *ɡeːŋ

Ideogram (指事) : 干 + 干 – comparing two 干 side by side, even.

Note that in some early forms of 開, the unrelated 开 (two hands) is drawn as 幵.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 幵
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 先 (85)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 古賢切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ken/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ken/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kɛn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kɛn/
Li
Rong		 /ken/
Wang
Li		 /kien/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kien/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiān
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 幵
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 qiān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ken ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ˤe[r]/
English even, level (Shuōwén)

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 幵
Reading # 1/1
No. 6161
Phonetic
component		 幵
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 堅
Old
Chinese		 /*kŋeːn/

Definitions

幵

  1. even, level
  2. to raise in both hands

Japanese

Kanji

幵

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

幵 • ‎(gyeon) (hangeul 견, revised gyeon, McCune-Reischauer kyŏn, Yale kyen)

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