讞

See also: 谳

讞 U+8B9E, 讞 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8B9E ← 讝 [U+8B9D] CJK Unified Ideographs 讟 → [U+8B9F]

Translingual

Han character

讞 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+20, 27 strokes, cangjie input 卜口卜月大 (YRYBK), four-corner 0353₄, composition ⿰訁獻)

1. to decide, judge
2. a verdict, decision

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1188, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36170
• Dae Jaweon: page 1652, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4034, character 7
• Unihan data for U+8B9E

Chinese

trad.		讞
simp.		谳

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
獻	*sŋaːl, *hŋans, *ŋrad
甗	*ŋan, *ŋranʔ, *ŋrans
巘	*ŋranʔ, *ŋanʔ
讞	*ŋranʔ, *ŋrans, *ŋrad
鬳	*ŋans
瓛	*ɦŋʷaːn
囐	*sɡaːd
齾	*ŋaːd, *ŋraːd
钀	*ŋrad, *ŋad

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yàn (yan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jin⁶, jin⁵, jit⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yàn
    • Wade–Giles: yen⁴
    • Yale: yàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yann
    • Palladius: янь (janʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jin⁶, jin⁵, jit⁶
    • Yale: yihn, yíhn, yiht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jin⁶, jin⁵, jit⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yin⁶, yin⁵, yid⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːn²²/, /jiːn¹³/, /jiːt̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: ngjenX, ngjet

Rime
Character	讞	讞
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	仙 (79)	仙 (83)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	魚蹇切	魚列切
Baxter	ngjenX	ngjet
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋˠiᴇnX/	/ŋˠiᴇt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋᵚiɛnX/	/ŋᵚiɛt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋiænX/	/ŋiæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋianX/	/ŋiat̚/
Li Rong	/ŋjɛnX/	/ŋjɛt̚/
Wang Li	/ŋĭɛnX/	/ŋĭɛt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋi̯ɛnX/	/ŋi̯ɛt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yǎn	yè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jin5	jit6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋ(r)ar-s/, /*ŋ(r)at/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋranʔ/, /*ŋrans/, /*ŋrad/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	讞	讞
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yàn	yàn
Middle Chinese	‹ ngjenH ›	‹ ngjet ›
Old Chinese	/*ŋ(r)ar-s/	/*ŋ(r)at/
English	announce a verdict	announce a sentence (of a court)
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	讞	讞	讞
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	14455	14457	14465
Phonetic component	鬳	鬳	鬳
Rime group	元	元	月
Rime subdivision	1	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	齴	彥	孼
Old Chinese	/*ŋranʔ/	/*ŋrans/	/*ŋrad/

Definitions

讞

1. to pronounce (guilty, etc.); to decide; to judge; to announce a verdict

Compounds

• 定讞／定谳 (dìngyàn)
• 讞牘／谳牍
• 讞獄／谳狱
• 讞讞／谳谳

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B04768
• “讞”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

讞

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): げつ (getsu); げち (gechi); げん (gen)
• Kun: さばく (sabaku)

Korean

Hanja

讞 • (eon) (hangeul 언, revised eon, McCune–Reischauer ŏn, Yale en)

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Vietnamese

Han character

讞: Hán Việt readings: nghiện, nghiễn

1. chữ Hán form of nghiện (“judge, convict, declare guilty”).