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See also: 县 and 県

縣 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 月火竹女火 (BFHVF), four-corner 6299₃, composition ⿰⿱⿴𠀃三小系(GT) or ⿰県系(HJK))

• 纛 懸 𠐴 𣟠 𥌭 𡈴 𡾥 𦇨 𧔤 𪈉

• 县 (simplification)
  • also simplified within the compound character 悬 from 懸
• 県 (simplification)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 934, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27784
• Dae Jaweon: page 1373, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3435, character 11
• Unihan data for U+7E23

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 目 + 木 + 糸 - to hang with the string 糸 by the head 目 (using an eye to represent a head) on a tree 木. Originally referred to 懸 (OC *ɡʷeːn, “to hang”); later jiajie (假借) for 縣 (OC *ɡʷeːn, *ɡʷeːns, “administrative division”).

In Qin bamboo slip scripts, some of 目 + 木 were corrupted to 県 (with one straight horizontal line rather than 𠃊) which interpreted to a reversed head 𥄉 by Shuowen, and 糸 was corrupted to 系.

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縣

1. A type of administrative division:
   1. (historical, in ancient China) district; prefecture
   2. (in Mainland China) county (third level division that is now generally restricted to rural areas, contrasted with urban districts (區／区 (qū)))
   3. (in Taiwan) county (first level division that used to be under the jurisdiction of a province but are now directly administered by the central government)
   4. (in Indonesia) regency
   5. (in Japan) prefecture
   6. (in the United States) county (second level division under the jurisdiction of a state, excluding Alaska and Louisiana)

      洛杉磯縣／洛杉矶县  ―  luòshānjī xiàn  ―  Los Angeles County

   7. (in Vietnam) rural district
2. (in many cases but not always) county seat (the town which serves as the seat of government of such divisions)
3. a surname

• (first-level divisions): 省 (shěng), 市 (shì); 道 (dào) (historical)
• (second-level divisions): 區／区 (qū); 州 (zhōu), 市 (shì), 府 (fǔ), 郡 (jùn), 道 (dào) (historical)

Others:

• → English: hsien, xian
• → Iu Mien: nquenc
• → Lingao: hin⁴
• → Lü: ᦶᦉᧃᧈ (ṡaen¹)
• → Mongolian: сияан (sijaan)
• → Zhuang: yen

縣

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 懸 / 悬 (xuán, “to hang; to suspend”)

   • 不狩不獵，胡瞻爾庭有縣鶉兮？ [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     不狩不猎，胡瞻尔庭有县鹑兮？ [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

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

     Bù shòu bù liè, hú zhān ěr tíng yǒu xuán chún xī? [Pinyin]

     You do not follow the chase;
     — How do we see the quails hanging in your courtyards?

• “縣”, 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–
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “县”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 230.

縣

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 県)

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• On (unclassified): けん (ken)
• Kun: かける (kakeru, 縣ける)、かかる (kakaru, 縣かる)、あがた (agata, 縣)

縣 (eumhun 고을 현 (go'eul hyeon))

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縣 (eumhun 매달 현 (maedal hyeon))

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縣: Hán Việt readings: huyện^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}

1. chữ Hán form of huyện (“district”)

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