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English definition county, district, subdivision
Mandarin pronunciation(s), using the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system xian4 xuan2
Pronunciation(s) and frequencies according to 現代漢語頻率詞典 <Xiandai Hanyu Pinlu Cidian> (XDHYPLCD) xiàn(429)
Tang dynasty pronunciation(s), derived from or consistent with T'ang Poetic Vocabulary by Hugh M. Stimson, Far Eastern Publications, Yale Univ. 1976 *huèn
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Jyutping romanization system jyun6
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system yun6
Japanese (Kana) ケン ゲン あがた かける
Japanese (Hepburn) kakeru kakaru agata
Sino-Japanese ken
Korean pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system hyen
Hangul 현:0E
Vietnamese pronunciation(s) in Quốc ngữ huyện
Simplified variants
Unicode radical / stroke count 糸糹 + 10
Unicode total stroke count 16
Cangjie BFHVF
Four corner code 6299.3
Expected to be known in Hong Kong school system primary grade 6
漢語大字典 <Hanyu Da Zidian> 'Great Chinese Character Dictionary' (in 8 Volumes). Hubei and Sichuan Dictionary Publishing Collectives, 1986-1990. ISBN: 7-5403-0030 2/H.16 volume 5, page 3435, character 11
KangXi dictionary, 7th edition published by Zhonghua Bookstore in Beijing, 1989 page 934, position 23
Dae Jaweon (Korean) dictionary, first edition, published in Seoul by Samseong Publishing Co., Ltd., 1988 page 1373, position 8
Grammata Serica Recensa, Bernhard Karlgren, 1957 0248a
Analytic Dictionary of Chinese and Sino-Japanese, Bernhard Karlgren, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1974 152
Cihai (辭海) dictionary, single volume edition, published in Hong Kong by the Zhonghua Bookstore, 1983 (reprint of the 1947 edition), ISBN 962-231-005-2 page 1055, row 5, position 5
宋本廣韻 <Song Ben Guang Yun> Song Dynasty edition of the Guang Yun Rhyming Dictionary page 136, character 28 page 406, character 54
This represents the position(s) of the ideograph in the Soengmou San Zidin (商務新字典, New Commercial Press Character Dictionary) page 528, character 6
The Five Thousand Dictionary (Fenn's Chinese-English Pocket Dictionary) by Courtenay H. Fenn, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979 887C
page 180, position 7
Ten Thousand Characters: An Analytic Dictionary by G. Hugh Casey, S.J. Hong Kong: Kelley and Walsh, 1980 1633
Chinese-English Dictionary by Robert H. Mathews, Cambrige: Harvard University Press, 1975 2700
A Practical Cantonese-English Dictionary by Sidney Lau, Hong Kong: The Government Printer, 1977 3558 3567
Roy T. Cowles, A Pocket Dictionary of Cantonese, Hong Kong: University Press, 1999 4933
Student's Cantonese-English Dictionary by Bernard F. Meyer and Theodore F. Wempe (3rd edition, 1947) 3675
常用字字形表 (二零零零年修訂本),香港: 香港教育學院, 2000, ISBN 962-949-040-4 3141
Taiwan telegraph code 4905
Unicode code point (dec / hex): 32291 / 7E23