縣

縣 (radical 120, 糸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 月火竹女火 (BFHVF), four-corner 6299₃, composition ⿰⿱⿴𠀃三小系(GTV) or ⿰県系(HJK))

• 懸 (悬)

• 县 (simplification)
  • also simplified within the compound character 悬 from 懸
• 県 (simplification)

• KangXi: page 934, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27784
• Dae Jaweon: page 1373, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3435, character 11
• Unihan data for U+7E23

Historical forms of the character 縣
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 𥄉 + 系 – to hang 系 by the head 𥄉 (hair hanging down).

縣

1. An administrative subdivision of imperial, republican, and communist China, typically translated as "county" but now generally restricted to rural areas, contrasted with the urban "districts" (區)
2. (in many cases but not always) The town which serves as the seat of government of such subdivisions, the "county seat"

• (first-level divisions): 省 (shěng), 市 (shì); 道 (dào) (historical)
• (second-level divisions): 區／区 (qū); 州 (zhōu), 市 (shì), 府 (fǔ), 郡 (jùn), 道 (dào) (historical)

• → Lü: ᦶᦉᧃᧈ (ṡaen¹)

縣

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   ⇒ 懸

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 県)

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• On (unclassified): けん (ken)
• Kun: かける (kakeru, 縣ける); かかる (kakaru, 縣かる); あがた (agata, 縣)

縣 • (hyeon) (hangeul 현, McCune–Reischauer hyŏn, Yale hyen)

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縣 (huyện)

1. Hán tự form of huyện (“district”).