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遣

遣

See also: 遺

Translingual

Han character

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

send, dispatch
send off, exile

Derived characters

鑓

See also

遺追

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.		遣

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): qiǎn (qian³)

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄢˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hin²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: qiǎn
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢˇ
  - Wade-Giles: ch'ien³
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chean
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: hin²
  - Yale: hín
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hin²
  - IPA ^(key): /hiːn³⁵/

Middle Chinese: /kʰiᴇn^X/, /kʰiᴇn^H/▼

Rime
Character	遣	遣
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	去演切	去戰切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰiᴇn^X/	/kʰiᴇn^H/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰiɛn^X/	/kʰiɛn^H/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰjæn^X/	/kʰjæn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰian^X/	/kʰian^H/
Li Rong	/kʰiɛn^X/	/kʰiɛn^H/
Wang Li	/kʰĭɛn^X/	/kʰĭɛn^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰi̯ɛn^X/	/kʰi̯ɛn^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qiǎn	qiàn

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*[k]ʰe[n]ʔ/, /*[k]ʰe[n]ʔ-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*kʰenʔ/, /*kʰens/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	遣	遣
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qiǎn	qiàn
Middle Chinese	‹ khjien^X ›	‹ khjien^H ›
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	遣	遣
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	10264	10267
Phonetic component	遣	遣
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	遣	譴
Old Chinese	/*kʰenʔ/	/*kʰens/

Definitions

遣

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Japanese

Kanji

遣

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

On: けん (ken)

Kun: つかわす (tsukawasu), つかう (tsukau), やる (yaru)

Derived terms

遣 (つか)う ‎(tsukau)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

遣 (khiển, khiến)

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