儇

儇	U+5107, 儇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5107

← 儆
[U+5106]

CJK Unified Ideographs

儈 →
[U+5108]

Translingual

Han character

儇 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+13, 15 strokes, cangjie input 人田中女 (OWLV), four-corner 2623₂, composition ⿰亻睘)

clever, nimble

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 119, character 10
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1188
Dae Jaweon: page 252, character 9
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 225, character 8
Unihan data for U+5107

Chinese

simp. and trad.		儇

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 儇
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Small seal script s05681
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 (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone 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

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xuān (xuan¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hyun¹
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): soeng¹ / syoeng¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hoân

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/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: soeng¹
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: se̤ng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬœŋ⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: syoeng¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬyøŋ⁵⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoân
  - Tâi-lô: huân
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoaan
  - IPA (Xiamen): /huan²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /huan²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /huan¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /huan²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /huan²³/

Middle Chinese: xjwien

Rime
Character	儇
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	仙 (78)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	許緣切
Baxter	xjwien
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hiuᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/hʷiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/xjuæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hwian/
Li Rong	/xiuɛn/
Wang Li	/xĭwɛn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xi̯wɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xuān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hyun¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*qʷʰen/

(Zhengzhang): /*qʰʷen/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	儇
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xuān
Middle Chinese	‹ xjwien ›
Old Chinese	/*qʷʰen/
English	nimble, smart
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	儇
Reading #	1/1
No.	16245
Phonetic component	睘
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	翾
Old Chinese	/*qʰʷen/

Definitions

儇

clever, nimble

Compounds

儇子
儇薄
妝儇 / 妆儇

Pronunciation 2

Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ¹huae / ¹hua

Wu
- (Northern: Ningbo)
  - Wugniu: ¹huae
  - MiniDict: huae^平
  - Sinological IPA (Ningbo): /huɛ⁵²/
- (Northern: Chongming)
  - Wugniu: ¹hua
  - MiniDict: hua^平
  - Sinological IPA (Chongming): /huɑ⁵⁵/

Definitions

儇

(Ningbonese, Shadi Wu) (of a child) good; obedient; clever; well-behaved

Synonyms

(clever):

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乖巧 (guāiqiǎo)
了了 (liǎoliǎo) (literary)
伶俐 (línglì)
奢遮 (Wu, of a child)
宿鬼 (Hokkien)
性靈 / 性灵 (xìnglíng) (literary)
敏慧 (mǐnhuì)
明慧 (mínghuì)
明智 (míngzhì)
機敏 / 机敏 (jīmǐn)
機智 / 机智 (jīzhì)
機穎 / 机颖 (literary)
機警 / 机警 (jījǐng)
機靈 / 机灵
活絡 / 活络 (Wu)
睿智 (ruìzhì)
穎異 / 颖异 (yǐngyì) (formal)
精濟 / 精济 (Hokkien, of a child)
精靈 / 精灵 (jīnglíng)
精齊 / 精齐 (Hokkien, of a child)
聰慧 / 聪慧 (cōnghuì)
聰敏 / 聪敏 (cōngmǐn)
聰明 / 聪明 (cōngmíng)
聰穎 / 聪颖 (cōngyǐng) (formal)
英明 (yīngmíng)
調皮 / 调皮 (tiáopí)
靈 / 灵 (líng)
靈光 / 灵光 (⁶lin-kuaon) (Wu)
鬼 (guǐ) (informal)

(well-behaved):

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乖 (guāi)
𠢕 (ghao⁵) (Teochew)
懂事 (dǒngshì)
懂事體 / 懂事体 (Wu)
捌事 (báik-tâi) (Eastern Min)
明事理 (míngshìlǐ)
曉事 / 晓事 (xiǎoshì)
聽話 / 听话 (tīnghuà)
聽閒話 / 听闲话 (¹thin ⁶ghe-gho₆) (Northern Wu)

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “儇”, 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

儇

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): けん (ken)
Kun: かしこい (kashikoi)、あぎむく (agimuku)、とい (toi)、まとふ (matofu)

Korean

Hanja

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

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