蠲

蠲

蠲 U+8832, 蠲 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8832 ← 蠱 [U+8831] CJK Unified Ideographs 蠳 → [U+8833]

Translingual

Han character

蠲 (radical 142, 虫+17, 23 strokes, cangjie input 廿廿田中戈 (TTWLI), four-corner 8612₇, composition ⿰益蜀)

References

• KangXi: page 1103, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33873
• Dae Jaweon: page 1566, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2573, character 24
• Unihan data for U+8832

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		蠲

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蠲
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (益) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
隘	*qreːɡs
賹	*qreːɡs
搤	*qreːɡs, *qreːɡ
縊	*qleːɡs, *qleɡs
螠	*qleɡs
謚	*ɢliɡs, *qleɡ
諡	*ɢliɡs
蠲	*kʷliːŋ
溢	*liɡ
鎰	*liɡ
齸	*lig, *qleg
貖	*qreːɡ
益	*qleɡ
嗌	*qleɡ
膉	*qleɡ
鷁	*ŋɡleːɡ
艗	*ŋɡleːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʷliːŋ) : semantic 蜀 + phonetic 益 (OC *qleɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): juān (juan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gyun¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: juān
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄢ
    • Wade–Giles: chüan¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiuan
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gyun¹
    • Yale: gyūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gyn¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gün¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kyːn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /kwen/▼

Rime
Character	蠲
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	先 (86)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	古玄切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kwen/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷen/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɛn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwɛn/
Li Rong	/kuen/
Wang Li	/kiwen/
Bernard Karlgren	/kiwen/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	juān

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʷliːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蠲
Reading #	1/1
No.	15075
Phonetic component	益
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	涓
Old Chinese	/*kʷliːŋ/

Definitions

蠲

1. to remit
2. to cleanse

Compounds

蠲免 蠲削 蠲減／蠲减 蠲滌／蠲涤

蠲租 蠲苛 蠲賦／蠲赋

蠲除 蠲體／蠲体 馬蠲／马蠲

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Japanese

Kanji

蠲

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): けん (ken); けい (kei); け (ke)
• Kun: やすで (yasude)

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Korean

Hanja

蠲 • (gyeon) (hangeul 견, revised gyeon, McCune–Reischauer kyŏn, Yale kyen)

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