晛

晛 U+665B, 晛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-665B ← 晚 [U+665A] CJK Unified Ideographs 晜 → [U+665C]

Translingual

Han character

晛 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 日月山山 (ABUU), four-corner 6601₀, composition ⿰日見)

1. sunlight

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 495, character 37
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13942
• Dae Jaweon: page 861, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1512, character 9
• Unihan data for U+665B

Chinese

trad.		晛
simp.		𬀪

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 晛
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
涀	*ɡeːlʔ, *kʰeːns, *ɡeːns
莧	*ɡreːns
粯	*ɡreːns
晛	*ŋl'eːns, *ɡeːnʔ
筧	*keːnʔ
絸	*keːnʔ
垷	*keːnʔ, *ɡeːnʔ
挸	*keːnʔ
見	*keːns, *ɡeːns
俔	*kʰeːns, *ɡeːnʔ
蜆	*kʰeːns, *qʰeːnʔ, *ɡeːnʔ
硯	*ŋɡeːn, *ŋɡeːns
峴	*ɡeːnʔ
哯	*ɡeːnʔ
睍	*ɡeːnʔ
現	*ɡeːns

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiàn (xian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jin⁵ / jin⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siàn
    • Wade–Giles: hsien⁴
    • Yale: syàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiann
    • Palladius: сянь (sjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jin⁵ / jin⁶
    • Yale: yíhn / yihn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jin⁵ / jin⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yin⁵ / yin⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːn¹³/, /jiːn²²/

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• Middle Chinese: henX, nenH

Rime
Character	晛	晛
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)	泥 (8)
Final (韻)	先 (85)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	IV
Fanqie	胡典切	奴甸切
Baxter	henX	nenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦenX/	/nenH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦenX/	/nenH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɛnX/	/nɛnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦɛnX/	/nɛnH/
Li Rong	/ɣenX/	/nenH/
Wang Li	/ɣienX/	/nienH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣienX/	/nienH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiàn	niàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jin6	nin6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋl'eːns/, /*ɡeːnʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	晛	晛
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	6187	6201
Phonetic component	見	見
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	晛	峴
Old Chinese	/*ŋl'eːns/	/*ɡeːnʔ/
Notes	見亦聲或體然聲

Definitions

晛

1. (literary) sunlight

Japanese

Kanji

晛

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): けん (ken)、げん (gen)、でん (den)、ねん (nen)
• Kun: ひがあらわれる (hi ga arawareru)^{←ひがあらはれる (fi ga arafareru, historical)}、ひざ (hiza)
• Nanori: あき (aki)

Korean

Hanja

晛 (eumhun 햇살 현 (haetsal hyeon))

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