絢

See also: 绚

絢	U+7D62, 絢 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D62

← 絡
[U+7D61]

CJK Unified Ideographs

絣 →
[U+7D63]

Translingual

Han character

絢 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女火心日 (VFPA), four-corner 2792₀, composition ⿰糹旬)

Derived characters

𦻖

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 923, character 1
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27427
Dae Jaweon: page 1357, character 14
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3395, character 6
Unihan data for U+7D62

Chinese

trad.		絢
simp.		绚

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 絢
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
枃	*skins
笉	*skʰinʔ
郇	ɡʷreːn, sqʰʷin
絢	*qʰʷiːns
眴	qʰʷiːns, ɡʷiːns, sqʰʷin, qʰʷjins, *ŋʷjin
盷	*ɡʷiːn
訇	ɡʷiːn, qʰʷreːŋ
迿	ɡʷiːns, sqʰʷins
姰	ɡʷiːns, sqʰʷin
畇	l'iːŋ, sqʰʷin, sɢʷin, ɢʷin
荀	*sqʰʷin
詢	*sqʰʷin
洵	sqʰʷin, sɢʷin
恂	*sqʰʷin
峋	*sqʰʷin
珣	*sqʰʷin
槆	*sqʰʷin
筍	*sqʰʷinʔ
箰	*sqʰʷinʔ
旬	*sɢʷin
殉	*sɢʷins
徇	*sɢʷins
侚	*sɢʷins
均	*kʷin
鈞	*kʷin
袀	*kʷin
汮	kʷin, kʷrin
呁	*kʷins
筠	*ɡʷin
荺	ɢʷin, ɡʷinʔ
匀	*ɢʷin
韵	*ɢʷins
輷	qʰʷreːŋ, qʰʷreːŋs
揈	*qʰʷreːŋ
鍧	*qʰʷreːŋ
渹	*qʰʷreːŋ
赹	*ɡʷeŋ
憌	*ɡʷeŋ
惸	*ɡʷeŋ
咰	*sqʰʷrid

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qʰʷiːns): semantic 糸 + phonetic 旬 (OC *sɢʷin).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xuàn (xuan⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hyun³ / seon¹
Eastern Min (BUC): hióng
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hoeng⁴ / hyoeng⁴
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hiàn

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xuàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: syuàn
  - Wade–Giles: hsüan⁴
  - Yale: sywàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiuann
  - Palladius: сюань (sjuanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy̯ɛn⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: hyun³ / seon¹
  - Yale: hyun / sēun
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hyn³ / soen¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: hün³ / sên¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hyːn³³/, /sɵn⁵⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: hióng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hyɔŋ²¹³/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hoeng⁴
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: he̤̍ng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hœŋ⁴²/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hyoeng⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hyøŋ⁴²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiàn
  - Tâi-lô: hiàn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hiexn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /hiɛn²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hiɛn⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiɛn²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /hiɛn¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hiɛn²¹/

Middle Chinese: xwenH

Rime
Character	絢
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	先 (86)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	許縣切
Baxter	xwenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hwen^H/
Pan Wuyun	/hʷen^H/
Shao Rongfen	/xuɛn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hwɛn^H/
Li Rong	/xuen^H/
Wang Li	/xiwen^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xiwen^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xuàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hyun³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*qʷʰˤi[n]-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*qʰʷiːns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	絢
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xuàn
Middle Chinese	‹ xwen^H ›
Old Chinese	/*qʷʰˁi[n]-s/
English	ornate, decorated
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	絢
Reading #	1/1
No.	16374
Phonetic component	匀
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*qʰʷiːns/

Definitions

絢

Compounds

絢爛 / 绚烂 (xuànlàn)
絢練 / 绚练
絢麗 / 绚丽 (xuànlì)
絢麗多姿 / 绚丽多姿

References

“絢”, 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), “绚”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 270.

Japanese

Kanji

絢

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: けん (ken)
Kan-on: けん (ken)
Kun: あや (aya)
Nanori: じゅん (jun)、あや (aya)

Definitions

Kanji in this term
絢
あや Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 絢 – see the following entry.

【文あや】1

[noun] 綾, 絢: a kind of woven silk textile with a diagonally crossing pattern

[noun] 綾, 絢: short for 綾織 (ayaori): a twill weave; someone who weaves twill

[noun] 綾, 絢: short for 綾竹 (ayadake): in a loom, a bamboo pole placed between the heddle and the back beam or platen, used to improve the handling

[noun] 綾, 絢: short for 綾取り (ayatori): cat's cradle

Alternative spelling
綾

(This term, 絢, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

絢 • (hyeon) (hangeul 현, revised hyeon, McCune–Reischauer hyŏn, Yale hyen)

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Vietnamese

Chữ Hán

絢: Hán Nôm readings: tuân, huyền, huyến