宣

See also: 宜
宣 U+5BA3, 宣
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5BA3
← 客
[U+5BA2] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 室 →
[U+5BA4]

Translingual

Han character

宣 (radical 40, 宀+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 十一日一 (JMAM), four-corner 30106, composition ⿱宀亘)

Derived characters

References
  • KangXi: page 284, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7132
  • Dae Jaweon: page 562, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 923, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+5BA3

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 宣
variant forms 𠖚 (historical form)
𡨈 (historical form)
𡩦 (historical form)
𡪏 (historical form)
㝉 (second-round simplified)

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 宣
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (亘) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
烜 *qʰrolʔ, *qʰonʔ
貆 *qʰoːn, *ɡoːn, *qʰon
峘 *ɡoːn, *ɡɯːŋ
狟 *ɡoːn
絙 *ɡoːn, *kɯːŋ
荁 *ɡoːn
宣 *sqʰon
咺 *qʰonʔ
暅 *qʰonʔ
桓 *ɡʷaːn
洹 *ɡʷaːn, *ɢʷan
揎 *sqʰʷan
愃 *sqʰʷan, *qʰʷanʔ
瑄 *sqʰʷan
渲 *sqʰʷans
喧 *qʰʷan
萱 *qʰʷan
暄 *qʰʷan
諠 *qʰʷan
翧 *qʰʷan
蝖 *qʰʷan
垣 *ɢʷan
楦 *qʰʷans

Pronunciation
Note:
  • suang1 - Shantou;
  • suêng1 - Chaozhou.
Rime
Character 宣
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 仙 (78)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 須緣切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /siuᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /sʷiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sjuæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /swian/
Li
Rong		 /siuɛn/
Wang
Li		 /sĭwɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /si̯wɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xuān
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 宣
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xuān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sjwen ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s-qʷar/
English spread (v.)

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 宣
Reading # 1/1
No. 3954
Phonetic
component		 亘
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 宣
Old
Chinese		 /*sqʰon/

Definitions

宣

  1. (literary) to declare; to announce; to proclaim
  2. (archaic) to command (from a sovereign to a subject)
  3. (Internet, slang) to like (Contraction of 喜欢)

Compounds
Derived terms from 宣

Japanese

Kanji
宣

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. proclaim, announce
  2. say

Readings

Compounds
Compounds

Etymology
Kanji in this term
宣
せん
Grade: 6
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 宣 (MC siuᴇn).

Pronunciation

Noun

宣 (hiragana せん, rōmaji sen)

  1. proclamation (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
    Synonym: 宣旨 (senji)

Verb

宣する (hiragana せんする, rōmaji sen suru)

  1. declare (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
    Synonym: 宣言する (sengen suru)

Proper noun

宣 (hiragana せん, rōmaji Sen)

  1. a female given name
  2. a surname​.

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

宣 • (seon) (hangeul 선, revised seon, McCune–Reischauer sŏn)

1. To declare, to give, to bestow.

Vietnamese

Han character

宣 (tuyên)

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