宣

Translingual

Han character

宣 (radical 40 宀+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 十一日一 (JMAM), four-corner 3010₆, composition ⿱宀亘)

1. declare, announce, proclaim

Derived characters

• 萱 箮

References

• KangXi: page 284, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7132
• Dae Jaweon: page 562, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 923, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5BA3

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		宣

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xuān (xuan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syun¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xuān
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄢ
    • Wade-Giles: hsüan¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiuan
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕy̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: syun¹
    • Yale: syūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: syn¹
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕyːn⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (宣, reconstructed)
Character (宣), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 心 (16) Final: 仙 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 須緣切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/siuᴇn/	/si̯wɛn/	/siuɛn/	/sʷiɛn/	/swian/	/sĭwɛn/	/sjuæn/

Old Chinese pronunciation (宣, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
宣								xuān								‹ sjwen ›								/*s-qʷar/								spread (v.)
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
宣					3954					亘					元					3					宣					/*sqʰon/

Verb

宣

1. (literary) declare; announce; proclaim
2. (archaic) to command (from a sovereign to a subject)

Compounds

• 宣笔
• 宣布
• 宣称
• 宣传
• 宣传画
• 宣传品
• 宣读
• 宣告
• 宣讲
• 宣教
• 宣判
• 宣示
• 宣誓
• 宣泄
• 宣言
• 宣扬
• 宣战
• 宣纸

References

• Guoyu Cidian (國語辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

宣

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• On: せん (sen)
• Kun: のる (noru), のたまう (notamau)

Compounds

• 宣言
• 宣告
• 宣誓
• 宣託
• 宣伝

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Korean

Hanja

宣 (seon) (hangeul 선, revised seon, McCune-Reischauer sŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

宣 (tuyên)

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