玄

Translingual

Stroke order

Historical forms of the character 玄
Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

玄 (radical 95 玄+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 卜女戈 (YVI), four-corner 0073₂)

1. deep, profound, abstruse
2. Kangxi radical #95, ⽞ ‎(“profound”).

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/玄
• 呟 畜 弦 絃 衒

See also

• 亥

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 725, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20814
• Dae Jaweon: page 1134, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 280, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7384

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		玄

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xuán (xuan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): hièn / hiàn
• Min Nan (POJ): hiân

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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: jyun⁴
    • Yale: yùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /jyːn²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hièn
    • Hakka Romanization System: hienˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: hian²
    • IPA: /hi̯en¹¹/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hiàn
    • Hakka Romanization System: hianˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: hian²
    • IPA: /hi̯an¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiân
    • Tâi-lô: hiân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hieen
    • IPA (Taipei): /hiɛn²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiɛn¹³/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 玄
Mandarin	Beijing	/ɕyan³⁵/
	Harbin	/ɕyan²⁴/
	Tianjin	/ɕyan⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/ɕyã⁴²/
	Qingdao	/ɕyã⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/ɕyan⁴²/
	Xi'an	/ɕyã²⁴/
	Xining	/ɕyã²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/ɕyan⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/ɕyɛ̃n⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/ɕyan⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/ɕiɛn²¹³/
	Chengdu	/ɕyan³¹/
	Guiyang	/ɕian²¹/
	Kunming	/ɕiɛ̃³¹/
	Nanjing	/ɕyen⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/ɕyĩ⁵⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/ɕye¹¹/
	Pingyao	/ɕye̞¹³/
	Hohhot	/ɕye³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/ɦi²³/ /ɦyø²³/
	Suzhou	/ɦiø¹³/
	Hangzhou	/ɦyõ²¹³/
	Wenzhou	/jy³¹/
Hui	Shexian	/ɕye⁴⁴/
	Tunxi	/ɕyɛ⁴⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/ɕyẽ¹³/
	Xiangtan	/ɕyẽ¹²/
Gan	Nanchang	/ɕyɵn⁴⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/hian¹¹/
	Taoyuan	/hien¹¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/jyn²¹/
	Nanning	/yn²¹/
	Hong Kong	/jyn²¹/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/hian³⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/hieŋ⁵³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/xyiŋ²¹/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/hiaŋ⁵⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/hin³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦwen/▼

Rime
Character	玄
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	先 (86)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	胡涓切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦwen/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷen/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɛn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwɛn/
Li Rong	/ɣuen/
Wang Li	/ɣiwen/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣiwen/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xuán

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷˤi[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷeːn/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	玄
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xuán
Middle Chinese	‹ hwen ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ʷˤi[n]/
English	dark
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	玄
Reading #	1/1
No.	14029
Phonetic component	玄
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	玄
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷeːn/

Definitions

玄

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Compounds

• 玄機／玄机 (xuánjī)

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

玄

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. mysterious
2. occultness

Readings

• Goon: げん (gen)
• Kan’on: けん (ken)
• Kun: くろ (kuro)

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Korean

Hanja

玄 • ‎(hyeon) (hangeul 현, revised hyeon, McCune-Reischauer hyŏn, Yale hyen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

玄 (huyền)

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