絢

See also: 绚

絢 U+7D62, 絢 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D62 ← 絡 [U+7D61] CJK Unified Ideographs 絣 → [U+7D63]

Translingual

Han character

絢 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女火心日 (VFPA), four-corner 2792₀, composition ⿰糹旬)

Derived characters

• 𦻖

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 923, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27427
• Dae Jaweon: page 1357, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3395, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7D62

Chinese

trad.		絢
simp.		绚

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 絢
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
枃	*skins
笉	*skʰinʔ
郇	*ɡʷreːn, *sqʰʷin
絢	*qʰʷiːns
眴	*qʰʷiːns, *ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷin, *qʰʷjins, *ŋʷjin
盷	*ɡʷiːn
訇	*ɡʷiːn, *qʰʷreːŋ
迿	*ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷins
姰	*ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷin
畇	*l'iːŋ, *sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin, *ɢʷin
荀	*sqʰʷin
詢	*sqʰʷin
洵	*sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin
恂	*sqʰʷin
峋	*sqʰʷin
珣	*sqʰʷin
槆	*sqʰʷin
筍	*sqʰʷinʔ
箰	*sqʰʷinʔ
旬	*sɢʷin
殉	*sɢʷins
徇	*sɢʷins
侚	*sɢʷins
均	*kʷin
鈞	*kʷin
袀	*kʷin
汮	*kʷin, *kʷrin
呁	*kʷins
筠	*ɡʷin
荺	*ɢʷin, *ɡʷinʔ
匀	*ɢʷin
韵	*ɢʷins
輷	*qʰʷreːŋ, *qʰʷreːŋs
揈	*qʰʷreːŋ
鍧	*qʰʷreːŋ
渹	*qʰʷreːŋ
赹	*ɡʷeŋ
憌	*ɡʷeŋ
惸	*ɡʷeŋ
咰	*sqʰʷrid

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qʰʷiːns): semantic 糸 + phonetic 旬 (OC *sɢʷin).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xuàn (xuan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hyun³ / seon¹
• Eastern Min (BUC): hióng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hoeng⁴ / hyoeng⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hiàn

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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/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hyun³ / seon¹
    • Yale: hyun / sēun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hyn³ / soen¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hün³ / sên¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hyːn³³/, /sɵn⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: hióng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hyɔŋ²¹³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: hoeng⁴
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: he̤̍ng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hœŋ⁴²/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: hyoeng⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hyøŋ⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiàn
    • Tâi-lô: hiàn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hiexn
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /hiɛn²¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /hiɛn⁴¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiɛn²¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /hiɛn¹¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /hiɛn²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: xwenH

Rime
Character	絢
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	先 (86)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	許縣切
Baxter	xwenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hwenH/
Pan Wuyun	/hʷenH/
Shao Rongfen	/xuɛnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hwɛnH/
Li Rong	/xuenH/
Wang Li	/xiwenH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xiwenH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xuàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hyun3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʷʰˤi[n]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰʷiːns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	絢
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xuàn
Middle Chinese	‹ xwenH ›
Old Chinese	/*qʷʰˁi[n]-s/
English	ornate, decorated
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	絢
Reading #	1/1
No.	16374
Phonetic component	匀
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	絢
Old Chinese	/*qʰʷiːns/

Definitions

絢

1. brilliant; gorgeous; effulgent
2. to shine
3. to embellish; to adorn
4. to dazzle

Compounds

• 絢爛 / 绚烂 (xuànlàn)
• 絢練 / 绚练
• 絢麗 / 绚丽 (xuànlì)
• 絢麗多姿 / 绚丽多姿

References

• “絢”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “绚”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 270.

Japanese

Kanji

絢

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: けん (ken)
• Kan-on: けん (ken)
• Kun: あや (aya)
• Nanori: じゅん (jun)、あや (aya)

Definitions

Kanji in this term
絢
あや Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 絢 – see the following entry.

【文あや】1 [noun] 綾, 絢: a kind of woven silk textile with a diagonally crossing pattern [noun] 綾, 絢: short for 綾織 (ayaori): a twill weave; someone who weaves twill [noun] 綾, 絢: short for 綾竹 (ayadake): in a loom, a bamboo pole placed between the heddle and the back beam or platen, used to improve the handling [noun] 綾, 絢: short for 綾取り (ayatori): cat's cradle Alternative spelling 綾

(This term, 絢, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

• “^▲絢”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

絢 (eumhun 무늬 현 (munui hyeon))

絢 • (hyeon) (hangeul 현, revised hyeon, McCune–Reischauer hyŏn, Yale hyen)

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Vietnamese

Chữ Hán

絢: Hán Nôm readings: tuân, huyền, huyến