嬛

嬛	U+5B1B, 嬛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B1B

Translingual

Han character

嬛 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 女田中女 (VWLV), four-corner 4643₂, composition ⿰女睘)

apt, clever
sycophant, flatterer

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 272, character 17
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6782
Dae Jaweon: page 540, character 17
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1083, character 24
Unihan data for U+5B1B

Chinese

trad.		嬛
simp. ^#		嬛

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 嬛
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
癏	*kʷraːn
擐	kʷraːn, ɡʷraːns
還	ɡʷraːn, sɢʷan
環	*ɡʷraːn
鬟	*ɡʷraːn
寰	ɡʷraːn, ɡʷeːns
闤	*ɡʷraːn
糫	*ɡʷraːn
圜	ɡʷraːn, ɡʷen
鐶	*ɡʷraːn
轘	ɡʷraːn, ɡʷraːns
澴	*ɡʷraːn
繯	ɡʷraːns, ɡʷeːnʔ
檈	sɢʷan, sɢʷin
儇	*qʰʷen
翾	*qʰʷen
蠉	qʰʷen, qʰʷenʔ
嬛	qʰʷen, qʷen, *ɡʷeŋ
譞	*qʰʷen
懁	*kʷeːns
獧	*kʷeːns
噮	*qʷeːns
彋	ɡʷreːŋ, ɡʷreːŋ
睘	*ɡʷeŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰʷen, *qʷen, *ɡʷeŋ) : semantic 女 (“female”) + phonetic 睘 (OC *ɡʷeŋ)

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): huán (huan²)

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): waan⁴
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): huang² / huong²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: huán
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: huán
  - Wade–Giles: huan²
  - Yale: hwán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwan
  - Palladius: хуань (xuanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯än³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: waan⁴
  - Yale: wàahn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: waan⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: wan⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /waːn²¹/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: huang²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /huaŋ¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: huong²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /huoŋ¹³/

Definitions

嬛

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Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xuān (xuan¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hyun¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xuān
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: syuan
  - Wade–Giles: hsüan¹
  - Yale: sywān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiuan
  - Palladius: сюань (sjuanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy̯ɛn⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: hyun¹
  - Yale: hyūn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hyn¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: hün¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hyːn⁵⁵/

Definitions

嬛

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Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): qíng (qing²)

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄥˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): king⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: qíng
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄥˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cíng
  - Wade–Giles: chʻing²
  - Yale: chíng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyng
  - Palladius: цин (cin)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰiŋ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: king⁴
  - Yale: kìhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: king⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: king⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɪŋ²¹/

Definitions

嬛

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Compounds

References

“嬛”, 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), “嬛”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 93.

Japanese

Kanji

嬛

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): けん (ken)、けい (kei)、ぎょう (gyō)
Kun: かたい (katai)

Korean

Hanja

嬛 • (hyeon) (hangeul 현, revised hyeon, McCune–Reischauer hyŏn)

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