婘

婘 U+5A58, 婘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A58 ← 婗 [U+5A57] CJK Unified Ideographs 婙 → [U+5A59]

Translingual

Han character

婘 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女火手山 (VFQU), four-corner 4941₂, composition ⿰女卷)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 264, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6415
• Dae Jaweon: page 531, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1061, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5A58

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
腃	*kʰruls, *ɡron
卷	*ɡron, *kronʔ, *krons, *ɡonʔ
菤	*kronʔ
捲	*kronʔ, *krons, *ɡron
埢	*kronʔ
睠	*krons
弮	*kʰron, *krons
犈	*krons, *ɡron
棬	*kʰron
鬈	*kʰron, *ɡron
圈	*kʰron, *ɡronʔ, *kʰon, *ɡlonʔ, *ɡlons
蜷	*ɡron
踡	*ɡron
婘	*ɡron
蔨	*ɡronʔ, *ɡrunʔ
倦	*ɡrons
淃	*ɡrons
綣	*kʰonʔ, *kʰons
裷	*kʰonʔ, *qon

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡron): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 卷 (OC *ɡron, *kronʔ, *krons, *ɡonʔ).

Etymology 1

trad.		婘
simp. #		婘

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): quán (quan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gyun³ / kyun⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: quán
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cyuán
    • Wade–Giles: chʻüan²
    • Yale: chywán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyuan
    • Palladius: цюань (cjuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰy̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gyun³ / kyun⁴
    • Yale: gyun / kyùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gyn³ / kyn⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: gün³ / kün⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kyːn³³/, /kʰyːn²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: gjwen

Rime
Character	婘
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	仙 (80)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	巨員切
Baxter	gjwen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡˠiuᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡʷᵚiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡiuæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/gwian/
Li Rong	/ɡjuɛn/
Wang Li	/ɡĭwɛn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/gi̯wɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	quán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	kyun4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡron/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	婘
Reading #	1/1
No.	7193
Phonetic component	卷
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	權
Old Chinese	/*ɡron/

Definitions

婘

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Etymology 2

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 婘 – see 眷 (“to look back; to take interest in; to care for; etc.”). (This character is an ancient form of 眷).

References

• “婘”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

婘

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): けん (ken)、げん (gen)
• Kun: みめよい (mimeyoi)、やかり (yakari)