玄

玄 (Kangxi radical 95, 玄+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 卜女戈 (YVI), four-corner 0073₂, composition ⿱亠幺)

1. Kangxi radical #95, ⽞.

• Appendix:Chinese radical/玄
• 伭, 呟, 𡊨, 妶, 𪨬, 𢂄, 弦, 怰, 𢫔, 泫, 㹡, 𨸫, 𣃡, 昡, 𣐙, 𪵚, 炫, 玹, 胘, 𥙆, 眩, 𥎸, 𪿖, 𮃀, 袨, 絃, 𦍫, 舷, 蚿, 𧣙, 詃(𬣤), 䝮, 𧺻, 鉉(铉), 䩙, 𩗁, 䮄(𫠊), 𩨬, 鮌, 𪐷, 𪗰
• 𠛑, 𠡆, 𮟴, 𩑹, 䲻, 𠅋, 畜, 𦬾, 𣆂, 䍗, 𠣖, 痃, 衒, 牽, 𨴋, 𡇎

Naming taboo (避諱 / 避讳); the last dot in 玄 was omitted to avoid using the same character in the Kangxi Emperor's personal name, which was 玄燁 / 玄烨, therefore producing 𤣥 (xuán).

This was also applied to derived characters; characters like 弦 and 畜 were also missing the last dot in 玄 (xuán) during this time.

This also produced 𤍞 (yè) < 燁 / 烨 (yè).

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 725, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20814
• Dae Jaweon: page 1134, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 280, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7384

Ideogram (指事), two intervowen threads 幺 and a distinguishing mark 亠 on top. The whole character should represent a rope, as seen in 率 and 弦. However, this rope is different from 己 and 乃.

Unknown. The oldest basic color term for "black" which was later replaced by 黑 (OC *hmlɯːɡ) (Schuessler, 2007).

One of its derivations is 袨 (OC *ɡʷeːn, “a kind of black formal wear”).

玄

1. deep; profound; mysterious
2. black; reddish black

   • 七月鳴鵙、八月載績。載玄載黃、我朱孔陽、為公子裳。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     七月鸣𱉐、八月载绩。载玄载黄、我朱孔阳、为公子裳。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on Bernhard Karlgren's version

     Qīyuè míng jú, bāyuè zǎi jì. Zǎi xuán zǎi huáng, wǒ zhū kǒng yáng, wèi gōngzǐ shang. [Pinyin]

     In the seventh month there is the crying shrike; in the eighth month we spin, both black and yellow; our red-dye is very bright; we make skirts for the young noblemen.

3. sky
4. a surname

• “玄”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “玄”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 270.

(Jōyō kanji)

1. mysterious
2. occultness

• Go-on: げん (gen, Jōyō)^{←げん (gen, historical)←ぐゑん (gwen, ancient)}
• Kan-on: けん (ken)
• Kun: くろ (kuro, 玄)、くろい (kuroi, 玄い)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [çʌ̹n]
• Phonetic hangul: [현]

Wikisource

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

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玄: Hán Việt readings: huyền

1. chữ Hán form of huyền (“mysterious”).