泫

泫 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水卜女戈 (EYVI), four-corner 3013₂, composition ⿰氵玄)

1. weep
2. cry
3. shine, glisten

• 𫈞, 𩃚

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 618, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17319
• Dae Jaweon: page 1013, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1593, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6CEB

Schuessler (2007) minimally reconstructs the Old Chinese as *wînʔ and suggests a derivation from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lwi(j) (“flow; stream”), just like 水 (OC lhuiʔ) (minimally reconstructed); early liquids *l- or *r- often disappeared before glides *j- or *w- in Middle Chinese.

泫

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, of droplets of water) to flow; to trickle
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to cry; to shed tears
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, of dew) glimmering; glistening
4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) dew

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “泫”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 270.

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. weep
2. cry
3. shine
4. glisten

• On (unclassified): けん (ken)、げん (gen)
• Kun: ながれる (nagareru)
• Nanori: ひろし (hiroshi)

泫 (eum 현 (hyeon))

1. weep
2. cry
3. shine
4. glisten

泫: Hán Nôm readings: huyên

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