縣

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縣 U+7E23, 縣
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E23
← 縢
[U+7E22]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 縤 →
[U+7E24]
See also: 县 and 県

Translingual[edit]

Traditional 縣
Shinjitai 県
Simplified 县

Han character[edit]

縣 (radical 120 糸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 月火竹女火 (BFHVF), four-corner 62993, composition ⿰県系(JK) or ⿰⿱⿻且一小系(GTV))

Derived characters[edit]

Descendants[edit]

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

References[edit]

  • 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

Chinese[edit]

trad. 縣
simp. 县

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 縣
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
縣-bronze.svg 縣-bigseal.svg 縣-seal.svg
Characters in the same phonetic series (縣) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
縣 *ɡʷeːn, *ɡʷeːns
懸 *ɡʷeːn

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • hiān - literary;
  • kūiⁿ/koān/koāiⁿ - vernacular.
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 縣
Mandarin Beijing /ɕian⁵¹/
Harbin /ɕian⁵³/
Tianjin /ɕian⁵³/
Jinan /ɕiã²¹/
Qingdao /ɕiã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ɕian³¹²/
Xi'an /ɕiã⁴⁴/
Xining /ɕiã²¹³/
Yinchuan /ɕian¹³/
Lanzhou /ɕiɛ̃n¹³/
Ürümqi /ɕian²¹³/
Wuhan /ɕiɛn³⁵/
Chengdu /ɕian¹³/
Guiyang /ɕian²¹³/
Kunming /ɕiɛ̃²¹²/
Nanjing /ɕien⁴⁴/
Hefei /ɕiĩ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕie⁴⁵/
Pingyao /ɕie̞³⁵/
Hohhot /ɕie⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ɦyø²³/
Suzhou /ɦiø³¹/
Hangzhou /ɦiẽ̞¹³/
Wenzhou /jy²²/
Hui Shexian /ɕie²²/
Tunxi /yɛ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ɕiẽ⁵⁵/
/ɕiẽ¹¹/
Xiangtan /ɕiẽ²¹/
Gan Nanchang /ɕiɛn²¹/
Hakka Meixian /ian⁵³/
Taoyuan /ʒen⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jyn²²/
Nanning /jin²²/
/yn²²/
Hong Kong /jyn²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hian²²/
/kuãi²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kaiŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kyiŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kũi³¹/
Haikou (Min Nan) /sin³⁵/
/kɔi²³/
Rime
Character 縣 縣
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 匣 (33) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 先 (86) 先 (86)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) IV IV
Fanqie 胡涓切 黃練切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦwen/ /ɦwenH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦʷen/ /ɦʷenH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣuɛn/ /ɣuɛnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦwɛn/ /ɦwɛnH/
Li
Rong		 /ɣuen/ /ɣuenH/
Wang
Li		 /ɣiwen/ /ɣiwenH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣiwen/ /ɣiwenH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xuán xuàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 縣 縣
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xiàn xuán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hwenH › ‹ hwen ›
Old
Chinese		 /*Cə.[ɡ]ʷˤe[n]-s/ /*[ɡ]ʷˤe[n]/
English district 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 縣 縣
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 13576 13578
Phonetic
component		 縣 縣
Rime
group		 元 元
Rime
subdivision		 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 玄
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡʷeːn/ /*ɡʷeːns/

Definitions[edit]

縣

  1. An administrative subdivision of imperial, republican, and communist China, typically translated as "county" but now generally restricted to rural areas, contrasted with the urban "districts" (區)
  2. (in many cases but not always) The town which serves as the seat of government of such subdivisions, the "county seat"

See also[edit]

  • (first-level divisions): 省 (shěng), 市 (shì); 道 (dào) (historical)
  • (second-level divisions): 區／区 (qū); 州 (zhōu), 市 (shì), 府 (fǔ), 郡 (jùn), 道 (dào) (historical)

Descendants[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

縣

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 県)

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Readings[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

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

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

縣 (huyện)

  1. Hán tự form of huyện, “district”
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