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牽

牽

See also: 牵

Translingual

Han character

牽 (radical 93 牛+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜女月手 (YVBQ), four-corner 00503)

References

  • KangXi: page 701, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20025
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1114, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1811, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+727D

Chinese

trad. 牽
simp. 牵

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (牽) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
牽 *kʰiːn, *kʰiːns
縴 *kʰiːn

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 牽 牽
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 溪 (29) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 先 (85) 先 (85)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) IV IV
Fanqie 苦堅切 苦甸切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰen/ /kʰenH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰen/ /kʰenH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰɛn/ /kʰɛnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰɛn/ /kʰɛnH/
Li
Rong		 /kʰen/ /kʰenH/
Wang
Li		 /kʰien/ /kʰienH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰien/ /kʰienH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 qiān qiàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 牽
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 qiān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khen ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ʰˤi[n]/
English pull, lead, drag

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 牽 牽
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 10175 10177
Phonetic
component		 牽 牽
Rime
group		 眞 眞
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 牽 俔
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰiːn/ /*kʰiːns/
Notes 古簡象引牛而非玄聲

Definitions

牽

  1. drag, pull, lead by hand

Japanese

Kanji

牽

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

牽 (khiên, khin)

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