刎

刎 U+520E, 刎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-520E ← 刍 [U+520D] CJK Unified Ideographs 刏 → [U+520F]

Translingual

Han character

刎 (Kangxi radical 18, 刀+4, 6 strokes, Cangjie input 心竹中弓 (PHLN), four-corner 2220₀, composition ⿰勿刂)

Derived characters

• 𥬼

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 137, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1879
• Dae Jaweon: page 308, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 327, character 10
• Unihan data for U+520E

Chinese

simp. and trad.		刎

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 刎
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
脗	*minʔ
吻	*mɯnʔ
刎	*mɯnʔ
伆	*mɯnʔ, *mɯd
勽	*buːs, *mɯnʔ
沕	*mrɯd, *mɯd
忽	*hmɯːd
昒	*hmɯːd, *mɯd
惚	*hmɯːd
匫	*hmɯːd
笏	*hmɯːd
曶	*hmɯːd
淴	*ʔmɯːd
物	*mɯd
勿	*mɯd
芴	*mɯd
岉	*mɯd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *mɯnʔ): phonetic 勿 (OC *mɯd) + semantic 刀. 勿 originally referred to this word, 刀 was added later.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wěn (wen³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁵
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): mong³ / muong³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bún

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wěn
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wǔn
    • Wade–Giles: wên³
    • Yale: wěn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woen
    • Palladius: вэнь (vɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wən²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: man⁵
    • Yale: máhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: man⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: men⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐn¹³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: mong³
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: meông
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɔŋ⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: muong³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /muoŋ³³²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bún
    • Tâi-lô: bún
    • Phofsit Daibuun: buon
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /bun⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /bun⁵⁵⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /bun⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /bun⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /bun⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: mjunX

Rime
Character	刎
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	文 (59)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	武粉切
Baxter	mjunX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mɨunX/
Pan Wuyun	/miunX/
Shao Rongfen	/miuənX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/munX/
Li Rong	/miuənX/
Wang Li	/mĭuənX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mi̯uənX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wěn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	man5

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*mɯnʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	刎
Reading #	1/1
No.	13207
Phonetic component	勿
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	吻
Old Chinese	/*mɯnʔ/

Definitions

刎

1. to cut one's throat (especially in suicide)
2. to cut off; to sever (referred to body parts)

Synonyms

• 剄／刭 (jǐng)

Compounds

• 刎頸 / 刎颈 (wěnjǐng)
• 刎頸之交 / 刎颈之交 (wěnjǐngzhījiāo)
• 刎頸交 / 刎颈交
• 刎頸至交 / 刎颈至交
• 自刎 (zìwěn)

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “刎”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 246.

Japanese

Kanji

刎

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. decapitate

Readings

• On (unclassified): ふん (fun)、ぶん (bun)
• Kun: はねる (haneru, 刎ねる)、くびはねる (kubihaneru, 刎ねる)

References

• “^▲刎”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

刎 (eum 문 (mun))

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Vietnamese

Han character

刎: Hán Nôm readings: vẫn

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