衒

衒 U+8852, 衒 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8852 ← 衑 [U+8851] CJK Unified Ideographs 術 → [U+8853]

Translingual

Han character

衒 (Kangxi radical 144, 行+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹人卜戈弓 (HOYIN), four-corner 2173₂, composition ⿴行玄 or ⿲彳玄亍)

1. brag
2. show off, promote oneself

Derived characters

• 𥲋

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1109, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34045
• Dae Jaweon: page 1573, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 831, character 8
• Unihan data for U+8852

Chinese

simp. and trad.		衒
alternative forms		炫

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
弦	*ɡeːn
絃	*ɡeːn, *qʰʷeːn
舷	*ɡeːn
痃	*ɡeːn
胘	*ɡeːn, *ɡʷeːn
蚿	*ɡeːn
伭	*ɡeːn
婱	*ɡeːn
玄	*ɡʷeːn
眩	*ɡʷeːn, *ɡʷeːn
玹	*ɡʷeːn, *ɡʷeːn
玆	*ɡʷeːn
詃	*kʷeːn
泫	*ɡʷeːn
鉉	*ɡʷeːn
炫	*ɡʷeːn
袨	*ɡʷeːn
衒	*ɡʷeːn
惤	*ɡʷreːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡʷeːn) : semantic 行 + phonetic 玄 (OC *ɡʷeːn).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xuàn (xuan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun⁶
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hoeng⁵ / hyeng⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xuàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syuàn
    • Wade–Giles: hsüan⁴
    • Yale: sywàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiuann
    • Palladius: сюань (sjuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jyun⁶
    • Yale: yuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yun⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːn²²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: hoeng⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hœŋ²¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: hyeng⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hyøŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: hwenH

Rime
Character	衒
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	先 (86)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	黃練切
Baxter	hwenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦwenH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷenH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɛnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwɛnH/
Li Rong	/ɣuenH/
Wang Li	/ɣiwenH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣiwenH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xuàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyun6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷeːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	衒
Reading #	1/1
No.	14040
Phonetic component	玄
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	泫
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷeːn/

Definitions

衒

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Compounds

• 拋聲衒俏 / 抛声衒俏
• 自衒
• 衒俏
• 衒士
• 衒女
• 衒材揚己 / 衒材扬己
• 衒玉賈石 / 衒玉贾石
• 衒異 / 衒异
• 衒耀
• 衒色
• 衒賣 / 衒卖

 

References

• “衒”, 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–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “衒”, 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

衒

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: げん (gen)
• Kan-on: けん (ken)
• Kun: うる (uru, 衒る)、てらう (terau, 衒う)、ひけらかす (hikerakasu, 衒らかす)

Korean

Hanja

衒 (eum 현 (hyeon))

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Vietnamese

Han character

衒: Hán Nôm readings: huyễn

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References

• Nom Foundation