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賢
賢
Translingual
Han character
賢 (radical 154 貝+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 尸水月山金 (SEBUC), four-corner 77806, composition ⿱臤貝)
References
- KangXi: page 1209, character 28
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36822
- Dae Jaweon: page 1674, character 17
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3646, character 6
- Unihan data for U+8CE2
Chinese
| trad. | 賢 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 贤 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 賢
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| Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (臣) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 臤 | *kʰaːn, *kʰriːn, *ɡiːn, *kʰins |
| 掔 | *kʰriːn, *kʰiːn |
| 慳 | *kʰriːn |
| 藖 | *ɡriːn, *ɡriːns |
| 堅 | *kiːn |
| 鋻 | *kiːn, *kiːns |
| 鰹 | *kiːn |
| 蜸 | *kʰiːnʔ |
| 菣 | *kʰiːns, *kʰins |
| 賢 | *ɡiːn |
| 礥 | *ɡiːn, *ɢrin |
| 臔 | *ɡiːnʔ |
| 挋 | *kiŋs |
| 臣 | *ɡiŋ |
| 茞 | *ɡiŋ |
| 腎 | *ɡjinʔ |
| 頣 | *hŋiŋʔ |
| 緊 | *kinʔ |
| 嚚 | *ŋɡriŋ |
| 鏗 | *kʰreːŋ |
| 摼 | *kʰreːŋ |
| 硻 | *kʰreːŋ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡiːn) : phonetic 臤 (OC *kʰaːn, *kʰriːn, *ɡiːn, *kʰins) + semantic 貝 (“money”) – worthy, valuable (like money)
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˊ
- Wade-Giles: hsien2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyan
- IPA (key): /ɕi̯ɛn³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: jin4
- Yale: yìhn
- Cantonese Pinyin: jin4
- IPA (key): /jiːn²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiân
- Tâi-lô: hiân
- Phofsit Daibuun: hieen
- IPA (Xiamen): /hiɛn²⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /hiɛn²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiɛn¹³/
- IPA (Taipei): /hiɛn²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /hiɛn²³/
- (Hokkien)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 賢 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /ɕian³⁵/ |
| Harbin | /ɕian²⁴/ | |
| Tianjin | /ɕian⁴⁵/ | |
| Jinan | /ɕiã⁴²/ | |
| Qingdao | /ɕiã⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /ɕian⁴²/ | |
| Xi'an | /ɕiã²⁴/ | |
| Xining | /ɕiã²⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /ɕian⁵³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /ɕiɛ̃n⁵³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /ɕian⁵¹/ | |
| Wuhan | /ɕiɛn²¹³/ | |
| Chengdu | /ɕian³¹/ | |
| Guiyang | /ɕian²¹/ | |
| Kunming | /ɕiɛ̃³¹/ | |
| Nanjing | /ɕien²⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /ɕiĩ⁵⁵/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /ɕie¹¹/ |
| Pingyao | /ɕie̞¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /ɕie³¹/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /ɦi²³/ |
| Suzhou | /ɦiɪ¹³/ | |
| Hangzhou | /ɦiẽ̞²¹³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /ji³¹/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /ɕie⁴⁴/ |
| Tunxi | /ɕiɛ⁴⁴/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /ɕiẽ¹³/ |
| Xiangtan | /ɕiẽ¹²/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /ɕiɛn⁴⁵/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /hian¹¹/ |
| Taoyuan | /hien¹¹/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /jin²¹/ |
| Nanning | /jin²¹/ | |
| Hong Kong | /jin²¹/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /hian³⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /hieŋ⁵³/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /xiŋ²¹/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /hiaŋ⁵⁵/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /hin³¹/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 賢 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 匣 (33) |
| Final (韻) | 先 (85) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | IV |
| Fanqie | 胡田切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ɦen/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ɦen/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ɣɛn/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ɦɛn/ |
| Li Rong |
/ɣen/ |
| Wang Li |
/ɣien/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ɣien/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
xián |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 賢 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 1337 |
| Phonetic component |
臣 |
| Rime group |
眞 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
賢 |
| Old Chinese |
/*ɡiːn/ |
Definitions
賢
Compounds
- (Min Nan) 賢慧 (hiân-huē)
Japanese
Kanji
賢
Readings
Proper noun
賢 (hiragana さとる, romaji Satoru)
- A male given name
賢 (hiragana まさる, romaji Masaru)
- A male given name
Korean
Hanja
賢 • (hyeon) (hangeul 현, revised hyeon, McCune-Reischauer hyŏn, Yale hyen)
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