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English definition virtuous, worthy, good; able
Mandarin pronunciation(s), using the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system xian2
Tang dynasty pronunciation(s), derived from or consistent with T'ang Poetic Vocabulary by Hugh M. Stimson, Far Eastern Publications, Yale Univ. 1976 *hen
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Jyutping romanization system jin4
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system yin4
Japanese (Hepburn) kashikoi masaru
Sino-Japanese ken
Korean pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system hyen
Hangul 현:0E
Vietnamese pronunciation(s) in Quốc ngữ hiền
Simplified variants
Semantic variants (x- or y-variants with similar or identical meaning)
Unicode radical / stroke count + 8
Unicode total stroke count 15
Cangjie SEBUC
Four corner code 7780.6
Frequency based in traditional Chinese USENET postings (1 is most common, 5 is least common) 4
Expected to be known in Hong Kong school system primary grade 5
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 6, page 3646, character 6
KangXi dictionary, 7th edition published by Zhonghua Bookstore in Beijing, 1989 page 1209, position 28
Dae Jaweon (Korean) dictionary, first edition, published in Seoul by Samseong Publishing Co., Ltd., 1988 page 1674, position 17
Grammata Serica Recensa, Bernhard Karlgren, 1957 0368e
Analytic Dictionary of Chinese and Sino-Japanese, Bernhard Karlgren, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1974 369
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 1276, row 5, position 2
宋本廣韻 <Song Ben Guang Yun> Song Dynasty edition of the Guang Yun Rhyming Dictionary page 133, character 37
The Five Thousand Dictionary (Fenn's Chinese-English Pocket Dictionary) by Courtenay H. Fenn, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979 643C
page 178, position 6
Ten Thousand Characters: An Analytic Dictionary by G. Hugh Casey, S.J. Hong Kong: Kelley and Walsh, 1980 619
Chinese-English Dictionary by Robert H. Mathews, Cambrige: Harvard University Press, 1975 2671
Roy T. Cowles, A Pocket Dictionary of Cantonese, Hong Kong: University Press, 1999 1356
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 3932
The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary by Andrew Nathaniel Nelson, Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1974 4517
Taiwan telegraph code 6343
Unicode code point (dec / hex): 36066 / 8CE2