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Translingual

Han character

(radical 159 +3, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十十一十 (JJMJ), four-corner 51040, composition)

  1. carriage
  2. high
  3. wide
  4. balcony
  5. surname of the Yellow Emperor

References

  • KangXi: page 1240, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38187
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1715, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3514, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+8ED2

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*krads, *krads, *ked, *kad
*kaːn
竿 *kaːn
*kaːn
*kaːn
*kaːn
*kaːn, *ɡaːn, *ɡaːns
*kaːn
*kaːn, *ɡaːns
*kaːn
*kaːn, *ɡaːn
*kaːnʔ
*kaːnʔ, *kaːns, *ɡaːns
*kaːnʔ
*kaːnʔ
*kaːnʔ
*kaːnʔ
*kaːnʔ
*kaːns
*kaːns
*kaːns
*kaːns
*kaːns, *ɡraːns
*kaːnʔ
*kaːnʔ
*kaːnʔ
*kʰaːn
*kʰaːn, *kʰaːns, *kreːn, *kan
*kʰaːnʔ, *kʰaːns
*ŋaːn, *ŋaːns
*ŋaːn, *ŋaːns, *ɦŋaːns, *ŋ̥ʰraːn
*ŋaːns, *hŋaːn, *ŋaːd
*ŋɡaːns
*qʰaːn, *ɢaːns
*qʰaːnʔ, *qʰaːns
*qʰaːnʔ, *ɡaːns
*qʰaːnʔ
*ɡaːn
*ɡaːnʔ
*ɡaːnʔ
*ɡaːns
*ɡaːns
*ɡaːns
*ɡaːns, *kʰraːn
*ɡaːns, *ɡraːnʔ
*ɡaːns
*ɡaːns
*ɡaːns
*ɡaːns
*ɡʷranʔ
*ɡraːns
*kan
*ɡan, *ɡʷad
*qʰan
*qʰan
*qʰaːŋʔ
*ɡʷaːnʔ

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ɕyan⁵⁵/
Harbin /ɕyan⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ɕyan²¹/
Jinan /ɕyã²¹³/
Qingdao /ɕyã²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ɕyan²⁴/
Xi'an /ɕyã²¹/
Xining /ɕyã⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ɕyan⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ɕyɛ̃n³¹/
Ürümqi /ɕyan⁴⁴/
Wuhan /ɕiɛn⁵⁵/
/ɕyɛn⁵⁵/
Chengdu /ɕyan⁵⁵/
Guiyang /ɕian⁵⁵/
Kunming /ɕiɛ̃⁴⁴/
Nanjing /ɕyen³¹/
Hefei /ɕyĩ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕye¹¹/
Pingyao
Hohhot /ɕye³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɕi⁵³/
Suzhou /ɕiɪ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ɕiẽ̞³³/
Wenzhou /ɕi³³/
Hui Shexian /ɕie³¹/
Tunxi /ɕyɛ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ɕiẽ³³/
Xiangtan /ɕyẽ³³/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /hian⁴⁴/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /hin⁵³/
Nanning /hyn⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /hin⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hian³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /hyoŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xyiŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /hɯŋ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hin²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (32)
Final () (65)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/hɨɐn/
Pan
Wuyun
/hiɐn/
Shao
Rongfen
/xiɐn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/hɨan/
Li
Rong
/xiɐn/
Wang
Li
/xĭɐn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/xɨ̯ɐn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiān
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xuān
Middle
Chinese
‹ xjon ›
Old
Chinese
/*qʰa[r]/
English nobleman"s carriage

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 3641
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qʰan/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 不分軒輊不分轩輊
  • 乘軒乘轩
  • 乘軒鶴乘轩鹤
  • 人物軒昂人物轩昂
  • 器宇軒昂器宇轩昂 (qìyǔ xuān'áng)
  • 寶軒燈宝轩灯
  • 意氣軒昂意气轩昂
  • 披軒披轩
  • 文軒文轩
  • 方軒方轩
  • 曦軒曦轩
  • 服冕乘軒服冕乘轩
  • 朱軒朱轩
  • 櫺軒櫺轩
  • 氣宇軒昂气宇轩昂 (qìyǔ xuān'áng)
  • 溷軒溷轩
  • 無分軒輊无分轩輊
  • 瓊軒琼轩
  • 皮軒皮轩
  • 眉軒眉轩
  • 稼軒稼轩
  • 老鶴乘軒老鹤乘轩
  • 臨軒临轩
  • 軒冕轩冕
  • 軒城轩城
  • 軒宇轩宇
  • 軒掖轩掖
  • 軒敞轩敞 (xuānchǎng)
  • 軒昂轩昂 (xuān'áng)
  • 軒昂氣宇轩昂气宇
  • 軒昂自若轩昂自若
  • 軒朗轩朗
  • 軒檻轩槛
  • 軒渠轩渠
  • 軒然轩然
  • 軒然大波轩然大波 (xuānrándàbō)
  • 軒眉轩眉
  • 軒秀轩秀
  • 軒翥轩翥
  • 軒舉轩举
  • 軒裳轩裳
  • 軒豁轩豁 (xuānhuò)
  • 軒車轩车
  • 軒軒轩轩
  • 軒軒甚得轩轩甚得
  • 軒輊轩輊 (xuānzhì)
  • 軒輖轩輖
  • 軒轅轩辕
  • 軒闢轩辟
  • 軒駕轩驾
  • 軒騫轩骞
  • 軨軒軨轩
  • 輪軒轮轩
  • 輶軒輶轩
  • 重軒重轩
  • 隨軒随轩
  • 飛軒飞轩
  • 高軒高轩
  • 高軒蒞止高轩莅止
  • 高軒過高轩过
  • 鶴乘軒鹤乘轩

References


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Kanji in this term
けん
Grade: S
on'yomi

Counter

(hiragana けん, romaji -ken)

  1. counter for buildings like houses
    寄付 (きふ) (つの)るため、 (すう) (けん) (いえ) (まわ)った。
    Kifu o tsunoru tame, sūken no ie o mawatta.
    We visited several houses to raise donations.

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(hiên, hen, hên)

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