憲

See also: 宪

§Translingual

§Han character

憲 (radical 61 心+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 十手一心 (JQMP), four-corner 3033₆, composition ⿱𡩜心)

1. constitution, statute, law

§References

• KangXi: page 404, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11269
• Dae Jaweon: page 744, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2351, character 9
• Unihan data for U+61B2

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§Chinese

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trad.		憲
simp.		宪

§Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiàn (xian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hin³
• Min Nan (POJ): hiàn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xiàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˋ
    • Wade-Giles: hsien⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiann
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hin³
    • Yale: hin
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hin³
    • IPA ^(key): /hiːn³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiàn
    • Tâi-lô: hiàn
    • IPA (Taipei): /hiɛn¹¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiɛn²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (憲, reconstructed)
Character (憲), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 曉 (32) Final: 元 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 許建切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/hɨɐnH/	/xɨ̯ɐnH/	/xiɐnH/	/hiɐnH/	/hɨanH/	/xĭɐnH/	/xiɐnH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (憲, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
憲								xiàn								‹ xjonH ›								/*qʰar (~ *qʰar-s)/								law; model; rule
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
憲					4849					害					元					1					獻					/*hŋans/

§References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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§Japanese

§Kanji

憲

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. constitution
2. law

§Readings

• On: けん (ken)
• Kun: のり (nori)

§Compounds

• 違憲
• 改憲
• 官憲
• 憲法
• 憲兵
• 国憲
• 合憲
• 護憲
• 朝憲
• 立憲

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§Korean

§Hanja

憲 (heon) (hangeul 헌, revised heon, McCune-Reischauer hŏn, Yale hen)

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§Vietnamese

§Han character

憲 (hiến)

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