璇

璇	U+7487, 璇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7487

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[U+7486]

CJK Unified Ideographs

璈 →
[U+7488]

Translingual

Han character

璇 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 一土卜尸人 (MGYSO), four-corner 1818₁, composition ⿰𤣩旋)

beautiful jade
star

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 741, character 5
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21203
Dae Jaweon: page 1150, character 23
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1135, character 16
Unihan data for U+7487

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
旋	sɢʷan, sɢʷans
漩	sɢʷan, sɢʷans
璇	*sɢʷan
琁	*sɢʷan
蜁	*sɢʷan
嫙	sɢʷan, sɢʷans
鏇	sɢʷan, sɢʷans
縼	*sɢʷans

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sɢʷan): semantic 玉 (“jade”) + phonetic 旋 (OC *sɢʷan, *sɢʷans).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		璇
alternative forms		璿／璇琁㻽

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xuán (xuan²)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): syun⁴
Eastern Min (BUC): suòng
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): soeng² / syoeng²
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): soân

(Teochew, Peng'im): suêng⁵ / suang⁵
Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁶zhi / ²zie

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xuán
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: syuán
  - Wade–Giles: hsüan²
  - Yale: sywán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyuan
  - Palladius: сюань (sjuanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy̯ɛn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: syun⁴
  - Yale: syùhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: syn⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: xun⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /syːn²¹/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: suòng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /suoŋ⁵³/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: soeng²
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: sé̤ng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬœŋ¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: syoeng²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬyøŋ²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: soân
  - Tâi-lô: suân
  - Phofsit Daibuun: soaan
  - IPA (Xiamen): /suan²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /suan²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /suan¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /suan²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /suan²³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: suêng⁵ / suang⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: suêng / suâng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sueŋ⁵⁵/, /suaŋ⁵⁵/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶zhi
  - MiniDict: zhi^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³xxi
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ʑi²³/
- (Northern: Suzhou)
  - Wugniu: ²zie
  - MiniDict: zie^平
  - Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /zɪ²²³/

Middle Chinese: zjwen

Rime
Character	璇
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	仙 (78)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	似宣切
Baxter	zjwen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ziuᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/zʷiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/zjuæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zwian/
Li Rong	/ziuɛn/
Wang Li	/zĭwɛn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/zi̯wɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xuán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cyun⁴

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*sɢʷan/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	璇
Reading #	1/1
No.	14045
Phonetic component	旋
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	旋
Old Chinese	/*sɢʷan/
Notes	同琁

Definitions

璇

(literary) fine jade

Compounds

天璇
持衡擁璇 / 持衡拥璇
璇室
璇璣 / 璇玑 (xuánjī)
璇璣圖 / 璇玑图
璇花
璇閨 / 璇闺

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		璇
alternative forms		𥖄鏇／旋鑽／钻

Pronunciation

Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): soān

Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: soān
  - Tâi-lô: suān
  - Phofsit Daibuun: soan
  - IPA (Xiamen): /suan²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /suan⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /suan²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /suan³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /suan³³/

Definitions

璇

diamond

Compounds

璇石 (soān-chio̍h)
璇筆 / 璇笔 (soān-pit)

References

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

璇

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: ぜん (zen)
Kan-on: せん (sen)

Korean

Hanja

璇 • (seon) (hangeul 선, revised seon, McCune–Reischauer sŏn, Yale sen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

璇: Hán Nôm readings: tuyền, toàn, triền

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