嘕

嘕 U+5615, 嘕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5615 ← 嘔 [U+5614] CJK Unified Ideographs 嘖 → [U+5616]

Translingual

Han character

嘕 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 口一卜火 (RMYF), four-corner 6102₇, composition ⿰口焉)

1. manner of laughing, way in which one laughs

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 206, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4202
• Dae Jaweon: page 429, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 672, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5615

Chinese

simp. and trad.		嘕

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
嘕	*qʰran
嫣	*qʰran, *qran, *qranʔ, *qans
焉	*qran, *ɢan, *qan
鄢	*qran, *qanʔ, *qans
蔫	*qran, *qan
漹	*ɢan, *qans
傿	*qans

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qʰran) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 焉 (OC *qran, *ɢan, *qan).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiān (xian¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hin¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiān
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sian
    • Wade–Giles: hsien¹
    • Yale: syān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shian
    • Palladius: сянь (sjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hin¹
    • Yale: hīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hin¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hin¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hiːn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: xjien

Rime
Character	嘕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	許延切
Baxter	xjien
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hiᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/hiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/xjæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hian/
Li Rong	/xiɛn/
Wang Li	/xĭɛn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xi̯ɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hin1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰran/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嘕
Reading #	1/1
No.	14225
Phonetic component	焉
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	嘕
Old Chinese	/*qʰran/
Notes	見大招

Definitions

嘕

1. way of laughing

Compounds

• 嘕嘕

 

Japanese

Kanji

嘕

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): けん (ken)、えん (en)
• Kun: たのしむ (tanoshimu)

Korean

Hanja

嘕 • (eon) (hangeul 언, revised eon, McCune–Reischauer ŏn)

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