縣

See also: 县 and 県

Translingual

shinjitai	県
simplified	县
traditional	縣

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 県 + 系 – to hang 系 by the head 県 (hair hanging down).

Han character

縣 (radical 120 糸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 月火竹女火 (BFHVF), four-corner 6299₃)

1. county, district, prefecture, subdivision

Derived characters

• 懸 (悬)

Descendants

• 县 (simplification, as in 悬 (from 懸))
• 県 (simplification)

References

• KangXi: page 934, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27784
• Dae Jaweon: page 1373, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3435, character 11
• Unihan data for U+7E23

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Chinese

		-
trad.		縣
simp.		县

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiàn (xian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun², jyun⁴, jyun⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): kōan

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xiàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˋ
    • Wade-Giles: hsien⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiann
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyun², jyun⁴, jyun⁶
    • Yale: yún, yùhn, yuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn², jyn⁴, jyn⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /jyːn³⁵/, /jyːn²¹/, /jyːn²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kōan
    • Tâi-lô: kuān
    • IPA (Taipei): /kuan³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kuan²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (縣, reconstructed)
Character (縣), Pronunciation 1/2
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/
Character (縣), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 匣 (33) Final: 先 Division: IV			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 黃練切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɦwenH/	/ɣiwenH/	/ɣuenH/	/ɦʷenH/	/ɦwɛnH/	/ɣiwenH/	/ɣuɛnH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (縣, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
縣								xiàn								‹ hwenH ›								/*Cə.[ɡ]ʷˤe[n]-s/								district
縣								xuán								‹ hwen ›								/*[ɡ]ʷˤe[n]/								suspend
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
縣					13576					縣					元					2					玄					/*ɡʷeːn/
縣					13578					縣					元					2										/*ɡʷeːns/

References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

See also

• 省份 (shěngfèn)
• 省 (shěng)
• 州 (zhōu, “state”)

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Japanese

Kanji

縣

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 県)

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Readings

• On: けん (ken)
• Kun: かける (kakeru), かかる (kakaru), あがた (agata)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

縣 (huyện)

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