玄

§Translingual

Stroke order

§Han character

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

1. deep, profound, abstruse

§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

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simp. and trad.		玄

§Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xuán (xuan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun⁴
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): hîen
• 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
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hîen
    • IPA (Siyen, including Miaoli): /hi̯en²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiân
    • Tâi-lô: hiân
    • IPA (Taipei): /hiɛn²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiɛn¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (玄, reconstructed)
Character (玄), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 匣 (33) Final: 先 Division: IV			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 胡涓切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɦwen/	/ɣiwen/	/ɣuen/	/ɦʷen/	/ɦwɛn/	/ɣiwen/	/ɣuɛn/

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

§Compounds

• 玄机

§References

• 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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