毨

毨 U+6BE8, 毨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6BE8 ← 毧 [U+6BE7] CJK Unified Ideographs 毩 → [U+6BE9]

Translingual

Han character

毨 (Kangxi radical 82, 毛+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹山竹土山 (HUHGU), four-corner 2471₁, composition ⿺毛先)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 593, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16821
• Dae Jaweon: page 985, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1997, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6BE8

Chinese

simp. and trad.		毨

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (先) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
洗	*sɯːlʔ, *sɯːnʔ
先	*sɯːn, *sɯːns
銑	*sɯːnʔ
跣	*sɯːnʔ
毨	*sɯːnʔ
姺	*sɯːnʔ, *srin
筅	*sɯːnʔ
冼	*sɯːnʔ
箲	*sɯːnʔ
駪	*srin
兟	*srin
詵	*srin
侁	*srin

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiǎn (xian³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sin²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siǎn
    • Wade–Giles: hsien³
    • Yale: syǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shean
    • Palladius: сянь (sjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sin²
    • Yale: sín
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sin²
    • Guangdong Romanization: xin²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːn³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: senX

Rime
Character	毨
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	蘇典切
Baxter	senX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/senX/
Pan Wuyun	/senX/
Shao Rongfen	/sɛnX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɛnX/
Li Rong	/senX/
Wang Li	/sienX/
Bernard Karlgren	/sienX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sin2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sɯːnʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	毨
Reading #	1/1
No.	13462
Phonetic component	先
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	銑
Old Chinese	/*sɯːnʔ/

Definitions

毨

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