Wiktionary

憲

See also: 宪
憲 U+61B2, 憲
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-61B2
← 憱
[U+61B1] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 憳 →
[U+61B3]

憲 U+2F8AC, 憲
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F8AC
← 憎
[U+2F8AB] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 憤 →
[U+2F8AD]

Translingual

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Han character

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憲 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 十手一心 (JQMP), four-corner 30336, composition ⿱𡩜心)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 404, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11269
  • Dae Jaweon: page 744, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2351, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+61B2

Chinese

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trad. 憲
simp. 宪
alternative forms 𢞩
𡩜

Glyph origin

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Characters in the same phonetic series (害) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
轄 *kʰaːds, *ɡraːd
害 *ɡaːds
犗 *kraːds
幰 *qʰanʔ
攇 *qʰanʔ
憲 *hŋans
瀗 *qʰans
割 *kaːd
磍 *kreːd, *kʰraːd
瞎 *qʰraːd
鎋 *ɡraːd
鶷 *ɡraːd
縖 *ɡraːd
豁 *qʰʷaːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *hŋans) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): semantic 心 (“heart”) + phonetic 𡩜 (, “a form of punishment involving tattooing the eyes”). The character conveys the meaning of "law" or "rule."[1]

References

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  1. ^ Digital Shinjigen 2017

Pronunciation

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  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 憲
Mandarin Beijing /ɕian⁵¹/
Harbin /ɕian⁵³/
Tianjin /ɕian⁵³/
Jinan /ɕiã²¹/
Qingdao /ɕiã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ɕian³¹²/
Xi'an /ɕiã⁴⁴/
Xining /ɕiã²¹³/
Yinchuan /ɕian¹³/
Lanzhou /ɕiɛ̃n¹³/
Ürümqi /ɕian²¹³/
Wuhan /ɕiɛn³⁵/
Chengdu /ɕian¹³/
Guiyang /ɕian²¹³/
Kunming /ɕiɛ̃²¹²/
Nanjing /ɕien⁴⁴/
Hefei /ɕiĩ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕie⁴⁵/
Pingyao /ɕie̞³⁵/
Hohhot /ɕie⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ɕi³⁵/
Suzhou /ɕiɪ⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /ɕiẽ̞⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /ɕi⁴²/
Hui Shexian /ɕie³²⁴/
Tunxi /ɕiɛ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ɕiẽ⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /ɕiẽ⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /ɕiɛn²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /hian³¹/
Taoyuan /hien³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hin³³/
Nanning /hin³³/
Hong Kong /hin³³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /hian²¹/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /hyɔŋ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /xuiŋ³³/
Shantou (Teochew) /hiaŋ²¹³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /hin³⁵/
Rime
Character 憲
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 元 (65)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 許建切
Baxter xjonH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/hɨɐnH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/hiɐnH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/xiɐnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/hɨanH/
Li
Rong 		/xiɐnH/
Wang
Li 		/xĭɐnH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/xɨ̯ɐnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xiàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		hin3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 憲
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		xiàn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ xjonH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*qʰar/ (~ *qʰar-s)
English law; model; rule

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 憲
Reading # 1/1
No. 4849
Phonetic
component 		害
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		獻
Old
Chinese 		/*hŋans/

Definitions

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憲

  1. (literary) law; statute
  2. Short for 憲法／宪法 (xiànfǎ, “constitution”).
  3. (archaic) example; model
  4. (archaic) to promulgate; to publish
  5. (archaic) to follow an example; to emulate

Compounds

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References

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Japanese

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Shinjitai 憲
Kyūjitai
[1]
憲
&#x2F8AC;
or
憲+&#xFE00;? 		 
憲󠄁
憲+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
憲󠄆
憲+&#xE0106;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
憲󠄂
憲+&#xE0102;?
(Adobe-Japan1) 		 
憲󠄅
憲+&#xE0105;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

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憲

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 憲)

  1. constitution; basic law

Readings

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Compounds

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References

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  1. ^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 901 (paper), page 500 (digital)

Korean

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

憲 (eumhun 법 헌 (beop heon))

  1. hanja form? of 법 (“law”)

Vietnamese

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Han character

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憲: Hán Nôm readings: hiến

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