璇

璇 U+7487, 璇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7487 ← 璆 [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)

1. beautiful jade
2. 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
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): soeng² / syeng²
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): soân

  (Teochew, Peng'im): suêng⁵ / suang⁵

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• 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/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: soeng²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬœŋ¹³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: syeng²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬyøŋ¹³/
• 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/

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• 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

1. (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

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• 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

1. 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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