# 絢

| 絢 | U+7D62, &#32098; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D62 |
| ← 絡 [U+7D61] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 絣 → [U+7D63] |

## Translingual
### Han character

絢 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女火心日 (VFPA), four-corner 2792$_0$, composition ⿰糹旬)

#### Derived characters

* 𦻖

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 923, character 1
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27427
* Dae Jaweon: page 1357, character 14
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3395, character 6
* Unihan data for U+7D62

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 絢 :
| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | Old Chinese |
| 枃 | *skins |
| 笉 | *skʰinʔ |
| 郇 | *ɡʷreːn, *sqʰʷin |
| 絢 | *qʰʷiːns |
| 眴 | *qʰʷiːns, *ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷin, *qʰʷjins, *ŋʷjin |
| 盷 | *ɡʷiːn |
| 訇 | *ɡʷiːn, *qʰʷreːŋ |
| 迿 | *ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷins |
| 姰 | *ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷin |
| 畇 | *l'iːŋ, *sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin, *ɢʷin |
| 荀 | *sqʰʷin |
| 詢 | *sqʰʷin |
| 洵 | *sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin |
| 恂 | *sqʰʷin |
| 峋 | *sqʰʷin |
| 珣 | *sqʰʷin |
| 槆 | *sqʰʷin |
| 筍 | *sqʰʷinʔ |
| 箰 | *sqʰʷinʔ |
| 旬 | *sɢʷin |
| 殉 | *sɢʷins |
| 徇 | *sɢʷins |
| 侚 | *sɢʷins |
| 均 | *kʷin |
| 鈞 | *kʷin |
| 袀 | *kʷin |
| 汮 | *kʷin, *kʷrin |
| 呁 | *kʷins |
| 筠 | *ɡʷin |
| 荺 | *ɢʷin, *ɡʷinʔ |
| 匀 | *ɢʷin |
| 韵 | *ɢʷins |
| 輷 | *qʰʷreːŋ, *qʰʷreːŋs |
| 揈 | *qʰʷreːŋ |
| 鍧 | *qʰʷreːŋ |
| 渹 | *qʰʷreːŋ |
| 赹 | *ɡʷeŋ |
| 憌 | *ɡʷeŋ |
| 惸 | *ɡʷeŋ |
| 咰 | *sqʰʷrid |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): xuàn (xuan$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄢˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): hyun$^3$ / seon$^1$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hoeng$^4$ / hyeng$^4$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hiàn
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xuàn
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄢˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: syuàn
*** Wade–Giles: hsüan$^4$
*** Yale: sywàn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiuann
*** Palladius: сюань (sjuanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕy̯ɛn⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: hyun$^3$ / seon$^1$
*** Yale: hyun / sēun
*** Cantonese Pinyin: hyn$^3$ / soen$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: hün$^3$ / sên$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /hyːn³³/, /sɵn⁵⁵/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: hoeng$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /hœŋ⁴²/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: hyeng$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /hyøŋ⁴²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiàn
*** Tâi-lô: hiàn
*** Phofsit Daibuun: hiexn
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hiɛn²¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /hiɛn⁴¹/
* Middle Chinese: xwenH
Rime :
| Character | 絢 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 曉 (32) |
| Final (韻) | 先 (86) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | IV |
| Fanqie | 許縣切 |
| Baxter | xwenH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /hwen$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /hʷen$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /xuɛn$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /hwɛn$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /xuen$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /xiwen$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /xiwen$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | xuàn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | hyun$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʷʰˤi[n]-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*qʰʷiːns/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 絢 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | xuàn |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ xwen$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*qʷʰˁi[n]-s/ |
| English | ornate, decorated |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 絢 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 16374 |
| Phonetic component | 匀 |
| Rime group | 眞 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 絢 |
| Old Chinese | /*qʰʷiːns/ |

### Definitions

絢
* brilliant; gorgeous; effulgent
* to shine
* to embellish; to adorn
* to dazzle

### Compounds

* 絢爛／绚烂 (xuànlàn)
* 絢練／绚练
* 絢麗／绚丽 (xuànlì)
* 絢麗多姿／绚丽多姿

### References

* “絢”, 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), “绚”, 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

(Jinmeiyō kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: けん (ken)
* Kan-on: けん (ken)
* Nanori: じゅん (jun)、あや (aya)

## Korean
### Hanja

絢 • (hyeon) (hangeul 현, revised hyeon, McCune–Reischauer hyŏn, Yale hyen)
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## Vietnamese
### Chữ Hán

絢: Hán Nôm readings: tuân, huyền, huyến