宣

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

Translingual

Han character
Stroke order

宣 (Kangxi 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 (first edition): volume 2, page 923, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+5BA3

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 宣
2nd round simp. 㝉
alternative forms 𠖚 historical
𡨈 historical
𡩦 historical
𡪏 historical
亘

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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 syun1
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 喜歡／喜欢 (xǐhuan))

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(せん) • (sen) 

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

Verb

宣(せん)する • (sen suru) suru (stem 宣(せん)し (sen shi), past 宣(せん)した (sen shita))

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

Proper noun

宣(せん) • (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: Hán Nôm readings: tuyên

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