旋

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 㫃 + 疋 ‎(“foot”)

Han character

旋 (radical 70 方+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜尸人弓人 (YSONO), four-corner 0828₁, composition ⿸⿰方𠂉疋)

1. to revolve, move in orbit
2. to return

References

• KangXi: page 483, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13656
• Dae Jaweon: page 845, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2181, character 4
• Unihan data for U+65CB

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		旋

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xuán (xuan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syun⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): chn̂g / chn̄g / sn̂g / soân / soan

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xuán
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄢˊ
    • Wade-Giles: hsüan²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyuan
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕy̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: syun⁴
    • Yale: syùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: syn⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕyːn²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chn̂g / chn̄g / sn̂g / soân / soan
    • Tâi-lô: tsn̂g / tsn̄g / sn̂g / suân / suan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zngg, zng, sngg, soaan, soafn
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sŋ̍²⁴/, /t͡sŋ̍³³/, /sŋ̍²⁴/, /suan²⁴/, /suan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sŋ̍¹³/, /t͡sŋ̍²²/, /sŋ̍¹³/, /suan¹³/, /suan⁴⁴/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 旋
Mandarin	Beijing	/ɕyan³⁵/ /ɕyan⁵¹/
	Harbin	/ɕyan²⁴/ 周～ /ɕyan⁵³/ ～車軸
	Tianjin	/ɕyan⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/ɕyã⁴²/ /ɕyã²¹/ ～子
	Qingdao	/syã⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/syan⁴²/
	Xi'an	/ɕyã²⁴/
	Xining	/ɕyã²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/ɕyan⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/ɕyɛ̃n⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/ɕyan⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/ɕiɛn²¹³/
	Chengdu	/ɕyan³¹/
	Guiyang	/ɕian²¹/
	Kunming	/ɕiɛ̃³¹/
	Nanjing	/syen²⁴/
	Hefei	/ɕyĩ⁵⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/ɕye⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/ɕye̞¹³/ ～轉 /ɕye̞³⁵/ ～風
	Hohhot	/ɕye³¹/ ～轉 /ɕye⁵⁵/ ～風
Wu	Shanghai	/ʑi²³/
	Suzhou	/ziɪ¹³/
	Hangzhou	/d͡ʑiẽ̞¹³/ /d͡ʑiẽ̞²¹³/
	Wenzhou	/jy²²/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡ɕʰye⁴⁴/
	Tunxi	/siɛ¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/siẽ¹³/ /t͡siẽ¹¹/
	Xiangtan	/ɕyẽ¹²/
Gan	Nanchang	/ɕyɵn⁴⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/t͡sʰion⁵³/ 發～ /sien¹¹/ ～轉
	Taoyuan	/sien¹¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/syn²¹/
	Nanning	/ɬyn²¹/
	Hong Kong	/syn²¹/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/suan³⁵/ /sŋ̍³⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/suoŋ⁵³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/t͡syiŋ⁴⁴/ /syiŋ²¹/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/suaŋ⁵⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/tuaŋ³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /ziuᴇn/, /ziuᴇn^H/▼

Rime
Character	旋	旋
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	仙 (78)	仙 (78)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	似宣切	辝戀切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ziuᴇn/	/ziuᴇnH/
Pan Wuyun	/zʷiɛn/	/zʷiɛnH/
Shao Rongfen	/zjuæn/	/zjuænH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zwian/	/zwianH/
Li Rong	/ziuɛn/	/ziuɛnH/
Wang Li	/zĭwɛn/	/zĭwɛnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/zi̯wɛn/	/zi̯wɛnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xuán	xuàn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*s-ɢʷen/, /*s-ɢʷen-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sɢʷan/, /*sɢʷans/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	旋	旋
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xuán	xuàn
Middle Chinese	‹ zjwen ›	‹ zjwenH ›
Old Chinese	/*s-ɢʷen/	/*s-ɢʷen-s/
English	turn around; return	whorl of hair on the head
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	旋	旋
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	14043	14052
Phonetic component	旋	旋
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	旋	㳬
Old Chinese	/*sɢʷan/	/*sɢʷans/

Definitions

旋

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Japanese

Kanji

旋

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: ぜん (zen)
• Kan’on: せん (sen)
• Kun: めぐる (meguru), ゆばり (yubari)

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Korean

Hanja

旋 • ‎(seon) (hangeul 선, revised seon, McCune-Reischauer sŏn, Yale sen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

旋 (toàn, triệng, trình, triền, tuyền)

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