# 刎

| 刎 | U+520E, &#21006; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-520E |
| ← 刍 [U+520D] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 刏 → [U+520F] |

## Translingual
### Han character

刎 (Kangxi radical 18, 刀+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 心竹中弓 (PHLN), four-corner 2220$_0$, composition ⿰勿刂)

#### Derived characters

* 𥬼

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 137, character 3
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1879
* Dae Jaweon: page 308, character 9
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 327, character 10
* Unihan data for U+520E

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 刎
* Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
* Small seal script
| | Old Chinese |
| 脗 | *minʔ |
| 吻 | *mɯnʔ |
| 刎 | *mɯnʔ |
| 伆 | *mɯnʔ, *mɯd |
| 勽 | *buːs, *mɯnʔ |
| 沕 | *mrɯd, *mɯd |
| 忽 | *hmɯːd |
| 昒 | *hmɯːd, *mɯd |
| 惚 | *hmɯːd |
| 匫 | *hmɯːd |
| 笏 | *hmɯːd |
| 曶 | *hmɯːd |
| 淴 | *ʔmɯːd |
| 物 | *mɯd |
| 勿 | *mɯd |
| 芴 | *mɯd |
| 岉 | *mɯd |
Ideogram of a knife with blood drops 勿 next to the Kangxi radical of the knife. The meaning "to cut" is visually referred to meat due to the presence of blood.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): wěn (wen$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄨㄣˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): man$^5$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): mong$^3$ / muong$^3$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bún
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: wěn
*** Zhuyin: ㄨㄣˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: wǔn
*** Wade–Giles: wên$^3$
*** Yale: wěn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woen
*** Palladius: вэнь (vɛnʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /wən²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: man$^5$
*** Yale: máhn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: man$^5$
*** Guangdong Romanization: men$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /mɐn¹³/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: mong$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /mɔŋ⁴⁵³/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: muong$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /muoŋ³³²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bún
*** Tâi-lô: bún
*** Phofsit Daibuun: buon
*** IPA (Xiamen): /bun⁵³/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /bun⁵⁵⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /bun⁵³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /bun⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /bun⁴¹/
* Middle Chinese: mjunX
Rime :
| Character | 刎 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 文 (59) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 武粉切 |
| Baxter | mjunX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /mɨun$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /miun$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /miuən$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /mun$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /miuən$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /mĭuən$^X$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /mi̯uən$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | wěn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | man$^5$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*mɯnʔ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 刎 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 13207 |
| Phonetic component | 勿 |
| Rime group | 文 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 吻 |
| Old Chinese | /*mɯnʔ/ |

### Definitions

刎
* to cut one's throat (especially in suicide)
* to cut off; to sever (referred to body parts)

#### Synonyms

* 剄／刭 (jǐng)

### Compounds

* 刎頸／刎颈 (wěnjǐng)
* 刎頸之交／刎颈之交 (wěnjǐngzhījiāo)
* 刎頸交／刎颈交
* 刎頸至交／刎颈至交
* 自刎 (zìwěn)

### References

* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “刎”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 246.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* decapitate

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): ふん (fun)、ぶん (bun)
* Kun: はねる (haneru, 刎ねる)、くびはねる (kubihaneru, 刎ねる)

## Korean
### Hanja

刎 (eum 문 (mun))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

刎: Hán Nôm readings: vẫn
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