絢

See also: 绚

絢	U+7D62, 絢 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D62

← 絡
[U+7D61]

CJK Unified Ideographs

絣 →
[U+7D63]

Translingual

Han character

絢 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女火心日 (VFPA), four-corner 2792₀, composition ⿰糹旬)

Derived characters

𦻖

References

KangXi: page 923, character 1

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27427

Dae Jaweon: page 1357, character 14

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3395, character 6

Unihan data for U+7D62

Chinese

trad.		絢
simp.		绚

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 絢
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
枃	*skins
笉	*skʰinʔ
郇	ɡʷreːn, sqʰʷin
絢	*qʰʷiːns
眴	qʰʷiːns, ɡʷiːns, sqʰʷin, qʰʷjins, *ŋʷjin
盷	*ɡʷiːn
訇	ɡʷiːn, qʰʷreːŋ
迿	ɡʷiːns, sqʰʷins
姰	ɡʷiːns, sqʰʷin
畇	l'iːŋ, sqʰʷin, sɢʷin, ɢʷin
荀	*sqʰʷin
詢	*sqʰʷin
洵	sqʰʷin, sɢʷin
恂	*sqʰʷin
峋	*sqʰʷin
珣	*sqʰʷin
槆	*sqʰʷin
筍	*sqʰʷinʔ
箰	*sqʰʷinʔ
旬	*sɢʷin
殉	*sɢʷins
徇	*sɢʷins
侚	*sɢʷins
均	*kʷin
鈞	*kʷin
袀	*kʷin
汮	kʷin, kʷrin
呁	*kʷins
筠	*ɡʷin
荺	ɢʷin, ɡʷinʔ
匀	*ɢʷin
韵	*ɢʷins
輷	qʰʷreːŋ, qʰʷreːŋs
揈	*qʰʷreːŋ
鍧	*qʰʷreːŋ
渹	*qʰʷreːŋ
赹	*ɡʷeŋ
憌	*ɡʷeŋ
惸	*ɡʷeŋ
咰	*sqʰʷrid

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xuàn (xuan⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hyun³, seon¹
Min Nan (POJ): hiàn

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xuàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: syuàn
  - Wade–Giles: hsüan⁴
  - Yale: sywàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiuann
  - Palladius: сюань (sjuanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕɥɛn⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: hyun³, seon¹
  - Yale: hyun, sēun
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hyn³, soen¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: hün³, sên¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hyːn³³/, /sɵn⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiàn
  - Tâi-lô: hiàn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hiexn
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hiɛn²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hiɛn⁴¹/

Middle Chinese: /hwen^H/

Rime
Character	絢
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	先 (86)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	許縣切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hwen^H/
Pan Wuyun	/hʷen^H/
Shao Rongfen	/xuɛn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hwɛn^H/
Li Rong	/xuen^H/
Wang Li	/xiwen^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/xiwen^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xuàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hyun³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*qʷʰˤi[n]-s/
(Zhengzhang): /*qʰʷiːns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	絢
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xuàn
Middle Chinese	‹ xwen^H ›
Old Chinese	/*qʷʰˁi[n]-s/
English	ornate, decorated
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	絢
Reading #	1/1
No.	16374
Phonetic component	匀
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	絢
Old Chinese	/*qʰʷiːns/

Definitions

絢

brilliant; gorgeous; effulgent
to shine
to embellish; to adorn
to dazzle

Compounds

絢爛／绚烂 (xuànlàn)
絢練／绚练

絢麗／绚丽 (xuànlì)

絢麗多姿／绚丽多姿

References

“絢”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

絢

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

On (unclassified): けん (ken)

Nanori: じゅん (jun); あや (aya)

Korean

Hanja

絢 • (hyeon) (hangeul 현, revised hyeon, McCune–Reischauer hyŏn, Yale hyen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

絢: Hán Nôm readings: tuân, huyền, huyến