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憲

憲

See also: 宪

Translingual

Han character

憲 (radical 61 心+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 十手一心 (JQMP), four-corner 30336, composition ⿱𡩜心)

  1. constitution; basic law

References

  • KangXi: page 404, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11269
  • Dae Jaweon: page 744, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2351, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+61B2

Chinese

trad. 憲
simp. 宪

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (害) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
轄 *kʰaːds, *ɡraːd
害 *ɡaːds
犗 *kraːds
幰 *qʰanʔ
攇 *qʰanʔ
憲 *hŋans
瀗 *qʰans
割 *kaːd
磍 *kreːd, *kʰraːd
瞎 *qʰraːd
鎋 *ɡraːd
鶷 *ɡraːd
縖 *ɡraːd
豁 *qʰʷaːd

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 憲
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 /ɕian¹³/
Guiyang /ɕian²¹³/
Kunming /ɕiɛ̃²¹²/
Nanjing /ɕien⁴⁴/
Hefei /ɕiĩ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕie⁴⁵/
Pingyao /ɕie̞³⁵/
Hohhot /ɕie⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ɕi³⁵/
Suzhou /ɕiɪ⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /ɕiẽ̞⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /ɕi⁴²/
Hui Shexian /ɕie³²⁴/
Tunxi /ɕiɛ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ɕiẽ⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /ɕiẽ⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /ɕiɛn²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /hian³¹/
Taoyuan /hien³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hin³³/
Nanning /hin³³/
Hong Kong /hin³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hian²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /hyɔŋ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xuiŋ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /hiaŋ²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hin³⁵/
Rime
Character 憲
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 元 (65)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 許建切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /hɨɐnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /hiɐnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xiɐnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hɨanH/
Li
Rong		 /xiɐnH/
Wang
Li		 /xĭɐnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xɨ̯ɐnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xiàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 憲
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xiàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ xjonH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰar/ (~ *qʰar-s)
English law; model; rule

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 憲
Reading # 1/1
No. 4849
Phonetic
component		 害
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 獻
Old
Chinese		 /*hŋans/

Definitions

憲

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References

Japanese

Kanji

憲

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. constitution; basic law

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

憲 • ‎(heon) (hangeul 헌, revised heon, McCune-Reischauer hŏn, Yale hen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

憲 (hiến)

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