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俔

俔	U+4FD4, 俔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4FD4

← 俓
[U+4FD3]

CJK Unified Ideographs

俕 →
[U+4FD5]

See also: 伣

Translingual

Han character

俔 (radical 9 人+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 人月山山 (OBUU), four-corner 2621₀, composition ⿰亻見)

References

KangXi: page 104, character 28

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 686

Dae Jaweon: page 221, character 12

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 161, character 1

Unihan data for U+4FD4

Chinese

trad.		俔
simp.		伣

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 俔

Oracle bone script

Small seal script

**Small seal script**
s05802

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
Liushutong (large seal) and
Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (見) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
涀	ɡeːlʔ, kʰeːns, *ɡeːns
莧	*ɡreːns
粯	*ɡreːns
晛	ŋl'eːns, ɡeːnʔ
筧	*keːnʔ
絸	*keːnʔ
垷	keːnʔ, ɡeːnʔ
挸	*keːnʔ
見	keːns, ɡeːns
俔	kʰeːns, ɡeːnʔ
蜆	kʰeːns, qʰeːnʔ, *ɡeːnʔ
硯	ŋɡeːn, ŋɡeːns
峴	*ɡeːnʔ
哯	*ɡeːnʔ
睍	*ɡeːnʔ
現	*ɡeːns

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): xiàn (xian⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jin⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: xiàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˋ
  - Wade-Giles: hsien⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiann
  - IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: jin⁵
  - Yale: yíhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jin⁵
  - IPA ^(key): /jiːn¹³/

Middle Chinese: /ɦen^X/, /kʰen^H/▼

Rime
Character	俔	俔
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	先 (85)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	IV
Fanqie	胡典切	苦甸切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦen^X/	/kʰen^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦen^X/	/kʰen^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɛn^X/	/kʰɛn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦɛn^X/	/kʰɛn^H/
Li Rong	/ɣen^X/	/kʰen^H/
Wang Li	/ɣien^X/	/kʰien^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣien^X/	/kʰien^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiàn	qiàn

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*N-[k]ˤenʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*kʰeːns/, /*ɡeːnʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	俔
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiàn
Middle Chinese	‹ hen^X ›
Old Chinese	/*N-[k]ˤenʔ/
English	to be like
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	俔	俔
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	6193	6204
Phonetic component	見	見
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	俔	峴
Old Chinese	/*kʰeːns/	/*ɡeːnʔ/

Definitions

俔

(archaic) like, as

Japanese

Kanji

俔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On: けん (ken)

Kun: うかがう (ukagau)

Korean

Hanja

俔 • ‎(hyeon) (hangeul 현, revised hyeon, McCune-Reischauer hyŏn)

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