賢

Translingual

simpl.		贤
trad.		賢

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 臤 + semantic 貝 (“money”) – worthy, valuable (like money)

Han character

賢 (radical 154 貝+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 尸水月山金 (SEBUC), four-corner 7780₆, composition ⿱臤貝)

1. virtuous, good, clever, wise, worthy
2. able, capable

See also

• 覧
• 贤
• 覽
• 览

References

• KangXi: page 1209, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36822
• Dae Jaweon: page 1674, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3646, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8CE2

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Cantonese

Hanzi

賢 (simplified 贤, Yale yin4)

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Japanese

Kanji

賢 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: けん (ken)
• Kun: かしこい (kashikoi), さかしい (sakashii), まさる (masaru)

Proper noun

賢 (hiragana さとる, romaji Satoru)

1. A male given name

賢 (hiragana まさる, romaji Masaru)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

賢 (simplified 贤, pinyin xián (xian2), Wade-Giles hsien²)

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Min Nan

Adjective

賢 (traditional, POJ hiân, simplified 贤)

Compounds

• 賢慧 (hiân-huē)

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Vietnamese

Han character

賢 (hiền, hèn)