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絹

絹

See also: 绢

Translingual

Han character

絹 (radical 120 糸+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女火口月 (VFRB), four-corner 26927)

  1. a kind of thick, stiff silk

References

  • KangXi: page 924, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27470
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1359, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3404, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+7D79

Chinese

trad. 絹
simp. 绢

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (肙) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
絹 *kʷens
狷 *kʷens, *kʷeːns
蜎 *ɡʷenʔ, *qʷen, *qʷeːn
弲 *qʰʷen, *qʷeːn
娟 *qʷen
悁 *qʷen
捐 *ɢʷen
涓 *kʷeːn
鵑 *kʷeːn
睊 *kʷeːn, *kʷeːns
焆 *kʷeːn, *qred, *qʷeːd
鞙 *kʷeːn, *ɡʷeːnʔ
埍 *kʷeːnʔ, *ɡʷeːnʔ
罥 *kʷeːnʔ, *kʷeːns
羂 *kʷleːnʔ
瓹 *kʷeːns
梋 *qʰʷeːn
鋗 *qʰʷeːn
駽 *qʰʷeːn, *qʰʷeːns
琄 *ɡʷeːnʔ
剈 *qʷeːn
肙 *qʷeːns

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 絹
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 仙 (78)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 吉掾切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kiuᴇnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʷiɛnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kjuænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kwianH/
Li
Rong		 /kiuɛnH/
Wang
Li		 /kĭwɛnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki̯wɛnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 juàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 絹
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 juàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kjwienH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ʷen-s/
English a kind of silk stuff

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 絹
Reading # 1/1
No. 16061
Phonetic
component		 肙
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 絹
Old
Chinese		 /*kʷens/

Definitions

絹

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Japanese

Kanji

絹

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Kanji in this term
絹
きぬ
Grade: 6
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

絹 ‎(hiragana きぬ, romaji kinu)

  1. silk

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

絹 (quyên, quyến)

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