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Translingual

Han character

(radical 149 +6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜口人一土 (YROMG), four-corner 08614)

  1. explain, expound, comment on

References

  • KangXi: page 1158, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35435
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1624, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3967, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+8A6E

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*sroːn, *sʰlon
*sroːn, *sron
*ʔsroːn, *ʔsron, *ʔslun
*sʰlon
*sʰlon
*sʰlon
*sʰlon
*sʰlon
*sʰlon, *djon
*sʰlon
*sʰlon
*sʰlon
*sʰlon, *sʰlod
*sʰlon, *ʔsron
*sʰlon
*zlon
*zlon, *doːŋ
*zlon

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (14)
Final () (78)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sʰiuᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sʰʷiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sʰjuæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sʰwian/
Li
Rong
/t͡sʰiuɛn/
Wang
Li
/t͡sʰĭwɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡sʰi̯wɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
quān
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 10706
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sʰlon/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 真詮真诠
  • 詞詮词诠
  • 詮次诠次
  • 詮注诠注
  • 詮說诠说

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(jeon) (hangeul , revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(thuyên)

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