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獻

獻

See also: 献

Translingual

Han character

獻 (radical 94 犬+16, 20 strokes, cangjie input 卜月戈大 (YBIK), four-corner 23234, composition ⿰鬳犬)

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 721, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20783
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1133, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1376, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+737B

Chinese

trad. 獻
simp. 献

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 獻
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (鬳) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
獻 *sŋaːl, *hŋans, *ŋrad
甗 *ŋan, *ŋranʔ, *ŋrans
巘 *ŋranʔ, *ŋanʔ
讞 *ŋranʔ, *ŋrans, *ŋrad
鬳 *ŋans
瓛 *ɦŋʷaːn
囐 *sɡaːd
齾 *ŋaːd, *ŋraːd
钀 *ŋrad, *ŋad

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sŋaːl, *hŋans, *ŋrad) : phonetic 鬳 ‎(OC *ŋans) + semantic 犬.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 獻 獻
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 心 (16) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 歌 (94) 元 (65)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I III
Fanqie 素何切 許建切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /sɑ/ /hɨɐnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /sɑ/ /hiɐnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sɑ/ /xiɐnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /sa/ /hɨanH/
Li
Rong		 /sɑ/ /xiɐnH/
Wang
Li		 /sɑ/ /xĭɐnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /sɑ/ /xɨ̯ɐnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 suō xiàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 獻 獻
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xiàn xiàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sa › ‹ xjonH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s-ŋˤar/ /*ŋ̊ar-s/
English to filter wine offer, present

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 獻 獻 獻
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 14451 14459 14467
Phonetic
component		 鬳 鬳 鬳
Rime
group		 歌 元 月
Rime
subdivision		 1 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 娑 獻 孼
Old
Chinese		 /*sŋaːl/ /*hŋans/ /*ŋrad/

Definitions

獻

  1. to offer, to present
  2. to show, to display

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai 献
Simplified 献
Traditional 獻

Kanji

獻

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

獻 • ‎(heon, sa) (hangeul 헌, 사, revised heon, sa, McCune-Reischauer hŏn, sa, Yale hen, sa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

獻 (hiến)

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