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[edit] Translingual

[edit] Han character

(radical 57 +5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 弓卜女戈 (NYVI), four-corner 10232)

  1. string
  2. string (of a bowed instrument)
  3. hypotenuse, crescent, chord

[edit] References

  • KangXi: page 357, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9754
  • Dae Jaweon: page 674, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 993, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+5F26

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

(Yale yin4)


[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

(common kanji)

[edit] Readings

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

(hangeul , revised hyeon, McCune-Reischauer hyŏn, Yale hyen)


[edit] Mandarin

simplified

traditional

or

[edit] Hanzi

(pinyin xián (xian2), Wade-Giles hsien2)

[edit] Noun

(traditional and simplified, Pinyin xián)

  1. string on a musical instrument

[edit] Compounds


[edit] Min Nan

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ hɪɛn˧˥ ]

[edit] Noun

(traditional and simplified, POJ hiân)

  1. (literary) string on a musical instrument

[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

(huyền)