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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 61 +9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 心月一水 (PBME), four-corner 92047, composition)

  1. talented
  2. intelligent, wise wisdom, knowledge
  3. resent
  4. to hate
  5. forget

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Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*noːnʔ
*noːnʔ, *qʰʷan
*qʰʷaːns, *qʰʷan
*ɢʷaːnʔ
*ɢʷaːnʔ
*ɢʷaːnʔ
*ɢʷraːn
*ɢʷan
*ɢʷans, *ɢʷan
*ɢʷans
*ɢʷans, *ɢʷan
*ɢʷans
*qʰʷan, *qʰʷanʔ
*qʰʷan
*qʰʷans
*ɢʷan
*ɢʷan
*ɢʷan
*ɢʷan

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (32)
Final () (66)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/hʉɐn/
Pan
Wuyun
/hʷiɐn/
Shao
Rongfen
/xiuɐn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/huan/
Li
Rong
/xiuɐn/
Wang
Li
/xĭwɐn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/xi̯wɐn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xuān
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 16172
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qʰʷan/

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