旋

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		旋

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
旋	*sɢʷan, *sɢʷans
漩	*sɢʷan, *sɢʷans
璇	*sɢʷan
琁	*sɢʷan
蜁	*sɢʷan
嫙	*sɢʷan, *sɢʷans
鏇	*sɢʷan, *sɢʷans
縼	*sɢʷans

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

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 旋

1. to revolve; to turn
2. to return; to go back; to come home
3. circle; loop; cycle
4. whorl on the head
5. immediately

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xuàn (xuan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄢˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xuàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syuàn
    • Wade–Giles: hsüan⁴
    • Yale: sywàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiuann
    • Palladius: сюань (sjuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy̯ɛn⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed) (旋兒／旋儿)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xuànr
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄢˋㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syuànr
    • Wade–Giles: hsüan⁴-ʼrh
    • Yale: sywànr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiuall
    • Palladius: сюаньр (sjuanʹr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy̯ɑɻ⁵¹/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 旋
Mandarin	Beijing	/ɕyan⁵¹/
	Harbin	/ɕyan⁵³/ ～車軸
	Tianjin
	Jinan	/ɕyã²¹/ ～子
	Qingdao
	Zhengzhou
	Xi'an
	Xining
	Yinchuan
	Lanzhou
	Ürümqi
	Wuhan
	Chengdu
	Guiyang
	Kunming
	Nanjing
	Hefei
Jin	Taiyuan
	Pingyao	/ɕye̞³⁵/ ～風
	Hohhot	/ɕye⁵⁵/ ～風
Wu	Shanghai
	Suzhou
	Hangzhou
	Wenzhou
Hui	Shexian
	Tunxi
Xiang	Changsha
	Xiangtan
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou
	Nanning
	Hong Kong
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)
	Shantou (Teochew)
	Haikou (Hainanese)

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• Middle Chinese: zjwenH

Rime
Character	旋
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	仙 (78)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	辝戀切
Baxter	zjwenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ziuᴇnH/
Pan Wuyun	/zʷiɛnH/
Shao Rongfen	/zjuænH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zwianH/
Li Rong	/ziuɛnH/
Wang Li	/zĭwɛnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/zi̯wɛnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xuàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	syun6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-ɢʷen-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sɢʷans/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	旋
Reading #	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xuàn
Middle Chinese	‹ zjwenH ›
Old Chinese	/*s-ɢʷen-s/
English	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
Reading #	2/2
No.	14052
Phonetic component	旋
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	㳬
Old Chinese	/*sɢʷans/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 旋

1. revolving; turning; circling
2. at the time
3. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 鏇 (“to pare”).
4. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 鏇 (“hot water container for warming wine”).

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Japanese

Kanji

旋

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ぜん (zen)
• Kan-on: せん (sen, Jōyō)
• Kun: めぐる (meguru, 旋る); 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

(deprecated template usage) 旋 (toàn, triệng, trình, triền, tuyền)

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