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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Cantonese

Hanzi

縣 (simplified 县, Jyutping jyun2, jyun4, jyun6, Yale yun2, yun4, yun6)

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Japanese

Kanji

縣

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

縣 (simplified 县, Pinyin xiàn (xian4), Wade-Giles hsien⁴)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

縣 (*huèn)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

縣 (POJ kōan (koan⁷), TLPA kuān (kuan⁷))

References

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

縣 (huyện)