祆

See also: 祅

祆	U+7946, 祆 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7946

← 祅
[U+7945]

CJK Unified Ideographs

祇 →
[U+7947]

Translingual

Han character

祆 (radical 113 示+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 戈火一大 (IFMK), four-corner 3223₄, composition ⿰礻天)

Ahura Mazda, god of the Zoroastrians
extended to god of the Manichaeans

References

KangXi: page 840, character 7

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24638

Dae Jaweon: page 1258, character 9

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2388, character 10

Unihan data for U+7946

Chinese

simp. and trad.		祆

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (天) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
添	*tʰiːm
忝	l̥ʰiːmʔ, l̥ʰiːms
悿	*tʰiːmʔ
舔	*l̥ʰiːmʔ
菾	*diːm
天	*qʰl'iːn
吞	qʰl'iːn, qʰl'ɯːn
祆	*qʰliːn
蚕	zluːm, hl'iːnʔ

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xiān (xian¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hin¹
Min Nan (POJ): hian

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: xiān
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢ
  - Wade–Giles: hsien¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shian
  - IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: hin¹
  - Yale: hīn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hin¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: hin¹
  - IPA ^(key): /hiːn⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hian
  - Tâi-lô: hian
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hiefn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /hiɛn⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hiɛn³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiɛn⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /hiɛn⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hiɛn⁴⁴/

Middle Chinese: /hen/▼

Rime
Character	祆
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	呼煙切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hen/
Pan Wuyun	/hen/
Shao Rongfen	/xɛn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hɛn/
Li Rong	/xen/
Wang Li	/xien/
Bernard Karlgren	/xien/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiān

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*qʰliːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	祆
Reading #	1/1
No.	12389
Phonetic component	天
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	祆
Old Chinese	/*qʰliːn/

Definitions

祆

Ahura Mazda, god of the Zoroastrians

Compounds

火燒祆廟／火烧祆庙
祆教 (Xiānjiào)

祆神

祆道

References

(Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)

Japanese

Kanji

祆

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Ahura Mazda, god of the Zoroastrians
extended to god of the Manichaeans

Readings

On (unclassified): けん (ken), てん (ten)

Korean

Hanja

祆 • (cheon) (hangeul 천, revised cheon, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏn, Yale chen)

Ahura Mazda, god of the Zoroastrians
extended to god of the Manichaeans

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