現

See also 现

Translingual

Han character

現 (radical 96 玉+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 一土月山山 (MGBUU), four-corner 1611₀, composition ⿰王見)

1. appear, manifest, become visible

References

• KangXi: page 732, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21004
• Dae Jaweon: page 1143, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1116, character 3
• Unihan data for U+73FE

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Cantonese

Hanzi

現 (simplified 现, Yale yin6)

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Japanese

Kanji

現 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: げん (gen), けん (ken)
• Kun: あらわれる (arawareru), あらわす (arawasu), うつつ (utsutsu)

Compounds

• 現代 (げんだい, gendai, “the present day, modern times”)

• 現金 (げんきん, genkin, “cash”)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

現 (simplified 现, pinyin xiàn (xian4), Wade-Giles hsien⁴)

Compounds

• 現在 (xiànzài)
• 現代 (xiàn dài)

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Vietnamese

Han character

現 (hiện, hẹn, kén)