瑄

瑄

瑄 U+7444, 瑄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7444 ← 瑃 [U+7443] CJK Unified Ideographs 瑅 → [U+7445]

Translingual

Han character

瑄 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 一土十一一 (MGJMM), four-corner 1311₆, composition ⿰𤣩宣)

References

• KangXi: page 736, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21099
• Dae Jaweon: page 1147, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1128, character 8
• Unihan data for U+7444

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		瑄

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (亘) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
烜	*qʰrolʔ, *qʰonʔ
貆	*qʰoːn, *ɡoːn, *qʰon
峘	*ɡoːn, *ɡɯːŋ
狟	*ɡoːn
絙	*ɡoːn, *kɯːŋ
荁	*ɡoːn
宣	*sqʰon
咺	*qʰonʔ
暅	*qʰonʔ
桓	*ɡʷaːn
洹	*ɡʷaːn, *ɢʷan
揎	*sqʰʷan
愃	*sqʰʷan, *qʰʷanʔ
瑄	*sqʰʷan
渲	*sqʰʷans
喧	*qʰʷan
萱	*qʰʷan
暄	*qʰʷan
諠	*qʰʷan
翧	*qʰʷan
蝖	*qʰʷan
垣	*ɢʷan
楦	*qʰʷans

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sqʰʷan) : semantic 𤣩 (“jade”) + phonetic 宣 (OC *sqʰon).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xuān (xuan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syun¹
• Min Dong (BUC): sŏng
• Min Nan (Teochew, Peng'im): suêng¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xuān
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syuan
    • Wade–Giles: hsüan¹
    • Yale: sywān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiuan
    • Palladius: сюань (sjuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕɥɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: syun¹
    • Yale: syūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: syn¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xun¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʃyːn⁵⁵/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: sŏng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /souŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: suêng¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sueng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sueŋ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /siuᴇn/

Rime
Character	瑄
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	仙 (78)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	須緣切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siuᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/sʷiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/sjuæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/swian/
Li Rong	/siuɛn/
Wang Li	/sĭwɛn/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯wɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xuān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	syun1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sqʰʷan/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	瑄
Reading #	1/1
No.	14008
Phonetic component	亘
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	宣
Old Chinese	/*sqʰʷan/

Definitions

瑄

1. ^† 6-cun-large jade annulus

   • 有司奉瑄玉嘉牲薦饗。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     有司奉瑄玉嘉牲荐飨。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Book of Han, circa 1^st century CE

     Yǒusī fèng xuānyù jiā shēng jiàn xiǎng. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this example)

Usage notes

Now usually used in personal names.

Compounds

瑄玉 (xuānyù)

References

• “瑄”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B02640

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Japanese

Kanji

瑄

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): せん (sen)

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Korean

Hanja

瑄 • (seon) (hangeul 선, revised seon, McCune–Reischauer sŏn, Yale sen)

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