REFERENCE DEPTH · UNIHAN 17

One character. Many records.

80,119 additional property values across 8,243 characters, with exact dictionary locators and source notation.

Use the word’s dictionary entry for pronunciation in context. A character may have different readings in different dictionaries, languages, periods and senses. Missing data remains missing; none of these values is copied to a variant character.

Hanyu Da Zidian

Hanyu Da Zidian readings with dictionary position codes before the colon. They are not ordered by everyday frequency. Unihan locators are preserved exactly.

kHanyuPinyin · 5,717 characters · Provisional

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Reading counts · XDHYPLCD

Reading-specific counts in the source Xiandai Hanyu Pinlü Cidian. Parentheses contain counts within that dictionary’s corpus, not percentages, current frequency ranks, or counts in zimai. Neutral-tone forms remain unmarked.

kHanyuPinlu · 2,953 characters · Provisional

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Xiandai Hanyu · 1983

Readings and locators from the 1983 Xiandai Hanyu Cidian. An asterisk in a locator marks substitution of a unifiable variant for an unencoded ideograph; it is not removed.

kXHC1983 · 7,690 characters · Provisional

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Tongyong Guifan · 2013

Readings and position codes from Tongyong Guifan Hanzi Zidian (2013). This is a dictionary-reading field, separate from the character-list membership property kTGH.

kTGHZ2013 · 8,105 characters · Provisional

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Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD

Mandarin–Cantonese groups from Soengmou San Zidin (2003). 粵 separates the Mandarin side from the Cantonese side. Groups, commas and source order remain intact; no word-level equivalence is inferred.

kSMSZD2003Readings · 5,029 characters · Provisional

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Japanese

Kana readings retained from Unihan kJapanese. This can include historical, rare or name readings; it is not a list of equally common modern Japanese word pronunciations.

kJapanese · 5,913 characters · Provisional

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Korean

Korean Hangul syllables with source markers following a colon. The suffix is provenance, not pronunciation. E identifies educational Hanja, N personal-name Hanja, 0 KS X 1001, and 1 KS X 1002. Consult Unicode for the full marker definitions.

kHangul · 4,277 characters · Provisional

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Vietnamese

Vietnamese readings in Quốc ngữ retained by Unihan. These are character-level source readings and do not establish the pronunciation or meaning of a whole Vietnamese word.

kVietnamese · 2,356 characters · Provisional

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Fanqie spellings

Source fanqie spellings: pairs of characters used to indicate historical readings. They are not modern pinyin, and no automatic one-to-one alignment to the separate PHONO-ML rows is asserted.

kFanqie · 5,236 characters · Provisional

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Cangjie

Cangjie input-method code. This supports lookup; it is not an etymological decomposition.

kCangjie · 8,051 characters · Provisional

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Four-corner

Four-corner numerical lookup codes. These describe a dictionary indexing method, not pronunciation or historical formation.

kFourCornerCode · 8,242 characters · Provisional

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Kangxi positions

Position codes in the Kangxi dictionary. The final digit 1 marks a virtual position rather than an actual dictionary entry. A reference does not reproduce or endorse a historical analysis.

kKangXi · 8,095 characters · Provisional

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Guangyun positions

Positions in the Song Ben Guang Yun. Kept as exact source locators; distinct from reconstructed pronunciations.

kSBGY · 4,888 characters · Provisional

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GSR references

Karlgren’s Grammata Serica Recensa references. Catalogue membership does not by itself prove a direct phonetic component or common word origin.

kGSR · 3,567 characters · Provisional

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Source and reproduction

Unicode, Inc. · Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3. All values are selected by exact code point from a pinned archive. No new historical claims are generated. These provisional linguistic properties are source data; independent expert review is not claimed.

Structured selection with source hashes · Exact selected input rows · Original archive