諼

See also: 谖

諼 U+8AFC, 諼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8AFC ← 諻 [U+8AFB] CJK Unified Ideographs 諽 → [U+8AFD]

Translingual

Han character

諼 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+9, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜口月一水 (YRBME), four-corner 0264₇, composition ⿰訁爰)

Derived characters

• 蘐

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1172, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35750
• Dae Jaweon: page 1637, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4000, character 5
• Unihan data for U+8AFC

Chinese

trad.		諼
simp.		谖

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
暖	*noːnʔ
煖	*noːnʔ, *qʰʷan
喛	*qʰʷaːns, *qʰʷan
緩	*ɢʷaːnʔ
鰀	*ɢʷaːnʔ
嵈	*ɢʷaːnʔ
鍰	*ɢʷraːn
湲	*ɢʷan
媛	*ɢʷans, *ɢʷan
瑗	*ɢʷans
援	*ɢʷans, *ɢʷan
褑	*ɢʷans
諼	*qʰʷan, *qʰʷanʔ
愋	*qʰʷan
楥	*qʰʷans
爰	*ɢʷan
鶢	*ɢʷan
蝯	*ɢʷan
猨	*ɢʷan

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰʷan, *qʰʷanʔ) : semantic 言 (“speech”) + phonetic 爰 (OC *ɢʷan).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xuān, shuàn (xuan¹, shuan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄢ, ㄕㄨㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hyun¹ / hyun²

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• 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/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shuàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shuàn
    • Wade–Giles: shuan⁴
    • Yale: shwàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuann
    • Palladius: шуань (šuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯än⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hyun¹ / hyun²
    • Yale: hyūn / hyún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hyn¹ / hyn²
    • Guangdong Romanization: hün¹ / hün²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hyːn⁵⁵/, /hyːn³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: xjwon, xjwonX

Rime
Character	諼	諼
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	元 (66)	元 (66)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	況袁切	况晚切
Baxter	xjwon	xjwonX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hʉɐn/	/hʉɐnX/
Pan Wuyun	/hʷiɐn/	/hʷiɐnX/
Shao Rongfen	/xiuɐn/	/xiuɐnX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/huan/	/huanX/
Li Rong	/xiuɐn/	/xiuɐnX/
Wang Li	/xĭwɐn/	/xĭwɐnX/
Bernard Karlgren	/xi̯wɐn/	/xi̯wɐnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xuān	xuǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hyun1	hyun2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʷʰa[r]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰʷan/, /*qʰʷanʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	諼
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xuān
Middle Chinese	‹ xjwon ›
Old Chinese	/*qʷʰa[r]/
English	forget
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	諼	諼
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	16169	16173
Phonetic component	爰	爰
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	暄
Old Chinese	/*qʰʷan/	/*qʰʷanʔ/

Definitions

諼

1. (literary) to cheat; to deceive; to bamboozle
2. (literary) to forget
3. Alternative form of 萱 (xuān, “daylily”)

Compounds

• 永矢弗諼／永矢弗谖
• 諼堂／谖堂
• 諼草／谖草 (xuāncǎo)
• 馮諼／冯谖
• 馮諼彈鋏／冯谖弹铗
• 馮諼燒券／冯谖烧券

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B04699
• “諼”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

諼

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. forget
2. lie
3. cheat
4. deceive

Readings

• On (unclassified): けん (ken)
• Kun: うつわる (utsuwaru)、わすれる (wasureru)

Korean

Hanja

諼 • (hwon) (hangeul 훤, revised hwon, McCune–Reischauer hwŏn, Yale hwen)

1. cheat
2. forget

Vietnamese

Han character

諼: Hán Việt readings: huyên

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