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虔

虔

Translingual

Han character

虔 (radical 141 虍+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜心卜大 (YPYK), four-corner 21240, composition ⿸虍文)

  1. act with reverence
  2. reverent

References

  • KangXi: page 1073, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32686
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1540, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2821, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+8654

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 虔

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 虔
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (虔) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
虔 *ɡren
鰬 *ɡren
榩 *ɡren

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 虔
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 仙 (79)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 渠焉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɡˠiᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɡᵚiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɡiæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /gian/
Li
Rong		 /ɡjɛn/
Wang
Li		 /ɡĭɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /gi̯ɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 qián
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 虔
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 qián
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ gjen ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɡ]ra[n]/
English kill; cut (v.)

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 虔
Reading # 1/1
No. 10260
Phonetic
component		 虔
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 乾
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡren/
Notes 讀若矜

Definitions

虔

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Compounds

  • 乾虔／干虔
  • 展子虔
  • 心虔志誠／心虔志诚
  • 敬虔主義／敬虔主义
  • 村虔
  • 矯虔／矫虔
  • 老虔婆
  • 虔劉／虔刘
  • 虔婆
  • 虔婆勢／虔婆势
  • 虔心
  • 虔恪
  • 虔敬 (qiánjìng)
  • 虔虔
  • 虔誠／虔诚 (qiánchéng)
  • 鄭虔／郑虔
  • 風虔／风虔

Japanese

Kanji

虔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

虔 • ‎(geon) (hangeul 건, revised geon, McCune-Reischauer kŏn, Yale ken)

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Vietnamese

Han character

虔 (kiền)

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