# 璇

| 璇 | U+7487, &#29831; 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 1818$_1$, composition ⿰𤣩旋)
* beautiful jade
* 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

| | 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
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): xuán (xuan$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄢˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): syun$^4$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): soeng$^2$ / syeng$^2$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): soân
    (Teochew, Peng'im): suêng$^5$ / suang$^5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xuán
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄢˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: syuán
*** Wade–Giles: hsüan$^2$
*** Yale: sywán
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyuan
*** Palladius: сюань (sjuanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕy̯ɛn³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: syun$^4$
*** Yale: syùhn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: syn$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: xun$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /syːn²¹/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: soeng$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬœŋ¹³/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: syeng$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /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: suêng$^5$ / suang$^5$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: suêng / suâng
*** Sinological IPA : /sueŋ⁵⁵/, /suaŋ⁵⁵/
* 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/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /zi̯wɛn/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | xuán |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | cyun$^4$ |
* 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
* (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
#### Pronunciation

* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): soān
* 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
* 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

(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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