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Translingual

Han character

(radical 162 +10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜中一口 (YLMR), four-corner 35307)

  1. send, dispatch
  2. send off, exile

Derived characters

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 1263, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39052
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1758, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3871, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+9063

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʰenʔ, *kʰens
*kʰenʔ, *kʰens
*kʰens

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (29) (29)
Final () (77) (77)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰiᴇnX/ /kʰiᴇnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰiɛnX/ /kʰiɛnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰjænX/ /kʰjænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰianX/ /kʰianH/
Li
Rong
/kʰiɛnX/ /kʰiɛnH/
Wang
Li
/kʰĭɛnX/ /kʰĭɛnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kʰi̯ɛnX/ /kʰi̯ɛnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
qiǎn qiàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
qiǎn qiàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ khjienX › ‹ khjienH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[k]ʰe[n]ʔ/ /*[k]ʰe[n]ʔ-s/ (*kʰ- doesn"t palatalize)
English send grave goods

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 10264 10267
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰenʔ/ /*kʰens/

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Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(khiển, khiến)

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