縣

See also: 县 and 県

Translingual

Traditional	縣
Shinjitai	県
Simplified	县

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)

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): jyun⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yen / yan
• Min Nan (POJ): koān
• Wu (Wiktionary): hhyoe (T3)

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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: jyun⁶
    • Yale: yuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /jyːn²²/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yen
    • Hakka Romanization System: ien
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yan⁴
    • IPA: /i̯en⁵⁵/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yan
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)ian
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yan⁴
    • IPA: /(j)i̯an⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koān
    • Tâi-lô: kuān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: koan
    • IPA (Taipei): /kuan³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kuan²²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: hhyoe (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /ɦyø²³/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 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/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦwen/, /ɦwen^H/▼

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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*Cə.[ɡ]ʷˤe[n]-s/, /*[ɡ]ʷˤe[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷeːn/, /*ɡʷeːns/

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

縣

1. county, district, prefecture, subdivision

See also

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

References

• “Entry #11865”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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Japanese

Kanji

縣

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, 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, McCune-Reischauer hyŏn, Yale hyen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

縣 (huyện)

1. Hán tự form of huyện, “district”