# 嬛

| 嬛 | U+5B1B, &#23323; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B1B |
| ← 嬚 [U+5B1A] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 嬜 → [U+5B1C] |

## Translingual
### Han character

嬛 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 女田中女 (VWLV), four-corner 4643$_2$, composition ⿰女睘)
* apt, clever
* sycophant, flatterer

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 272, character 17
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6782
* Dae Jaweon: page 540, character 17
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1083, character 24
* Unihan data for U+5B1B

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 嬛 :
| Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Chu slip and silk script | Small seal script |
| | Old Chinese |
| 癏 | *kʷraːn |
| 擐 | *kʷraːn, *ɡʷraːns |
| 還 | *ɡʷraːn, *sɢʷan |
| 環 | *ɡʷraːn |
| 鬟 | *ɡʷraːn |
| 寰 | *ɡʷraːn, *ɡʷeːns |
| 闤 | *ɡʷraːn |
| 糫 | *ɡʷraːn |
| 圜 | *ɡʷraːn, *ɡʷen |
| 鐶 | *ɡʷraːn |
| 轘 | *ɡʷraːn, *ɡʷraːns |
| 澴 | *ɡʷraːn |
| 繯 | *ɡʷraːns, *ɡʷeːnʔ |
| 檈 | *sɢʷan, *sɢʷin |
| 儇 | *qʰʷen |
| 翾 | *qʰʷen |
| 蠉 | *qʰʷen, *qʰʷenʔ |
| 嬛 | *qʰʷen, *qʷen, *ɡʷeŋ |
| 譞 | *qʰʷen |
| 懁 | *kʷeːns |
| 獧 | *kʷeːns |
| 噮 | *qʷeːns |
| 彋 | *ɡʷreːŋ, *ɡʷreːŋ |
| 睘 | *ɡʷeŋ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰʷen, *qʷen, *ɡʷeŋ) : semantic 女 (“female”) + phonetic 睘 (OC *ɡʷeŋ)

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): huán (huan$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄢˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): waan$^4$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): huang$^2$ / huong$^2$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: huán
*** Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄢˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: huán
*** Wade–Giles: huan$^2$
*** Yale: hwán
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwan
*** Palladius: хуань (xuanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /xu̯än³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: waan$^4$
*** Yale: wàahn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: waan$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: wan$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /waːn²¹/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: huang$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /huaŋ¹³/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: huong$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /huoŋ¹³/

#### Definitions

嬛
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### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): xuān (xuan$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄢ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): hyun$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xuān
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄢ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: syuan
*** Wade–Giles: hsüan$^1$
*** Yale: sywān
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiuan
*** Palladius: сюань (sjuanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕy̯ɛn⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: hyun$^1$
*** Yale: hyūn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: hyn$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: hün$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /hyːn⁵⁵/

#### Definitions

嬛
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### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): qíng (qing$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄥˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): king$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: qíng
*** Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄥˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: cíng
*** Wade–Giles: chʻing$^2$
*** Yale: chíng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyng
*** Palladius: цин (cin)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕʰiŋ³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: king$^4$
*** Yale: kìhng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: king$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: king$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰɪŋ²¹/

#### Definitions

嬛
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### Compounds

* 便嬛 (piánxuān)
* 婭嬛／娅嬛
* 嫏嬛
* 嫏嬛福地
* 嬛佞
* 嬛嬛 (qióngqióng)
* 瑯嬛記／琅嬛记

### References

* “嬛”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 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), “嬛”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 93.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): けん (ken)、けい (kei)、ぎょう (gyō)
* Kun: かたい (katai)

## Korean
### Hanja

嬛 • (hyeon) (hangeul 현, revised hyeon, McCune–Reischauer hyŏn)
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