刎

刎	U+520E, 刎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-520E

← 刍
[U+520D]

CJK Unified Ideographs

刏 →
[U+520F]

Translingual

Han character

刎 (Kangxi radical 18, 刀+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 心竹中弓 (PHLN), four-corner 2220₀, composition ⿰勿刂)

Derived characters

𥬼

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 137, character 3
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1879
Dae Jaweon: page 308, character 9
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 327, character 10
Unihan data for U+520E

Chinese

simp. and trad.		刎

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 刎
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (勿) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
脗	*minʔ
吻	*mɯnʔ
刎	*mɯnʔ
伆	mɯnʔ, mɯd
勽	buːs, mɯnʔ
沕	mrɯd, mɯd
忽	*hmɯːd
昒	hmɯːd, mɯd
惚	*hmɯːd
匫	*hmɯːd
笏	*hmɯːd
曶	*hmɯːd
淴	*ʔmɯːd
物	*mɯd
勿	*mɯd
芴	*mɯd
岉	*mɯd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *mɯnʔ): phonetic 勿 (OC *mɯd) + semantic 刀. 勿 originally referred to this word, 刀 was added later.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wěn (wen³)

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄣˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁵
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): mong³ / muong³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bún

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wěn
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄣˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wǔn
  - Wade–Giles: wên³
  - Yale: wěn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woen
  - Palladius: вэнь (vɛnʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wən²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: man⁵
  - Yale: máhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: man⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: men⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐn¹³/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: mong³
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: meông
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɔŋ⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: muong³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /muoŋ³³²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bún
  - Tâi-lô: bún
  - Phofsit Daibuun: buon
  - IPA (Xiamen): /bun⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /bun⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /bun⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /bun⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /bun⁴¹/

Middle Chinese: mjunX

Rime
Character	刎
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	文 (59)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	武粉切
Baxter	mjunX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mɨun^X/
Pan Wuyun	/miun^X/
Shao Rongfen	/miuən^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mun^X/
Li Rong	/miuən^X/
Wang Li	/mĭuən^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mi̯uən^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wěn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	man⁵

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*mɯnʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	刎
Reading #	1/1
No.	13207
Phonetic component	勿
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	吻
Old Chinese	/*mɯnʔ/

Definitions

刎

to cut one's throat (especially in suicide)
to cut off; to sever (referred to body parts)

Synonyms

剄／刭 (jǐng)

Compounds

刎頸 / 刎颈 (wěnjǐng)
刎頸之交 / 刎颈之交 (wěnjǐngzhījiāo)
刎頸交 / 刎颈交
刎頸至交 / 刎颈至交
自刎 (zìwěn)

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “刎”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 246.

Japanese

Kanji

刎

(Hyōgai kanji)

decapitate

Readings

On (unclassified): ふん (fun)、ぶん (bun)
Kun: はねる (haneru, 刎ねる)、くびはねる (kubihaneru, 刎ねる)

References

“^▲刎”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

刎 (eum 문 (mun))

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Vietnamese

Han character

刎: Hán Nôm readings: vẫn

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