# 彥

| 彥 | U+5F65, &#24421; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F65 |
| ← 彤 [U+5F64] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 彦 → [U+5F66] |

## Translingual
### Han character

彥 (Kangxi radical 59, 彡+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 卜竹竹竹竹 (YHHHH), four-corner 0022$_2$, composition ⿱文⿸厂彡)

#### Derived characters

* 偐 喭 嵃 𪵏 遃 諺 (谚) 𩜽 齴 顏

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 363, character 13
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9980
* Dae Jaweon: page 682, character 10
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 2, page 854, character 9
* Unihan data for U+5F65

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 彥 :
| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋrans) : phonetic 厂 (OC *hŋaːnʔ, *hŋaːns) + semantic 彣 (“variegated; literary talent”)

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yàn (yan$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): jin$^6$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): ngien / ngian
    (Hailu, HRS): ngien$^˖$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ngeng$^5$ / ngieng$^5$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): gān / giān
    (Teochew, Peng'im): ngang$^6$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^6$yi
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yàn
*** Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yàn
*** Wade–Giles: yen$^4$
*** Yale: yàn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yann
*** Palladius: янь (janʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /jɛn⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: jin$^6$
*** Yale: yihn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: jin$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yin$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /jiːn²²/
* Hakka
** (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngien
*** Hakka Romanization System: ngien
*** Hagfa Pinyim: ngian$^4$
*** Sinological IPA: /ŋi̯en⁵⁵/
** (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngian
*** Hakka Romanization System: ngian
*** Hagfa Pinyim: ngian$^4$
*** Sinological IPA: /ŋi̯an⁵⁵/
** (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
*** Hakka Romanization System: ngien$^˖$
*** Sinological IPA: /ŋien³³/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: ngeng$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /ŋɛŋ²¹/
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: ngieng$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /ŋiɛŋ²¹/
* ngeng5 - vernacular;
* ngieng5 - literary.
* Middle Chinese: ngjenH
Rime :
| Character | 彥 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 疑 (31) |
| Final (韻) | 仙 (79) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 魚變切 |
| Baxter | ngjenH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ŋˠiᴇn$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ŋᵚiɛn$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ŋiæn$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ŋian$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /ŋjɛn$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /ŋĭɛn$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ŋi̯ɛn$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yàn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | jin$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋrar-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ŋrans/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 彥 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | yàn |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ ngjen$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*ŋrar-s/ |
| English | adornment |
| 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 | 彥 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 14411 |
| Phonetic component | 彦 |
| Rime group | 元 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 彥 |
| Old Chinese | /*ŋrans/ |

### Definitions

彥
* (literary) person of virtue and ability
    From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Bǐ qí zhī zǐ, bāng zhī yàn xī. [Pinyin]
    That officer, Is the ornament of the country.

#### Compounds

* 俊彥 / 俊彦
* 廟廊之彥 / 庙廊之彦
* 彥倫鶴怨 / 彦伦鹤怨
* 彥國吐屑 / 彦国吐屑
* 彥士 / 彦士
* 旁求俊彥 / 旁求俊彦
* 碩彥 / 硕彦
* 碩彥名儒 / 硕彦名儒
* 群彥 / 群彦
* 薩彥嶺 / 萨彦岭 (Sàyànlǐng)
* 賢彥 / 贤彦
* 邦彥 / 邦彦
* 髦彥 / 髦彦

### References

* “彥”, 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–

## Japanese

| Shinjitai | 彦 |
| Kyūjitai | 彥 |

### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 彦)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: げん (gen)
* Kan-on: げん (gen)
* Kun: ひこ (hiko, 彥)

### Usage notes

This character lacks JIS support and is not used in Japan. See 彦 (U+5F66) instead.

## Korean
### Hanja

彥 • (eon) (hangeul 언, revised eon, McCune–Reischauer ŏn, Yale en)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

彥: Hán Nôm readings: ngạn
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