獻

獻 (Kangxi radical 94, 犬+16, 20 strokes, cangjie input 卜月戈大 (YBIK), four-corner 2323₄, composition ⿰鬳犬)

• 献

• KangXi: page 721, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20783
• Dae Jaweon: page 1133, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1376, character 9
• Unihan data for U+737B

Historical forms of the character 獻
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sŋaːl, *hŋans, *ŋrad) : phonetic 鬳 (OC *ŋans) + semantic 犬 (“dog”).

Same word as 憲 (OC *hŋans) (Schuessler, 2007), its basic meaning being seemingly "elevate > to be elavated".

Inside the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, it's related to 甗 (OC *ŋan, *ŋranʔ, *ŋrans, “a cooking vessel consisting of a steamer 'elevated' on a three-legged boiler”). Furthermore, it's possibly cognate to Tibetan སྔར་མ (sngar ma, “sharp-witted, quick-witted, intelligent”) (ibid., Gong, 2000).

獻

1. to offer; to present; to donate
2. to show; to display
3. (archaic) virtuous person

   • 子曰：「夏禮，吾能言之，杞不足徵也；殷禮，吾能言之，宋不足徵也。文獻不足故也，足則吾能徵之矣。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     子曰：“夏礼，吾能言之，杞不足征也；殷礼，吾能言之，宋不足征也。文献不足故也，足则吾能征之矣。” [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE

     Zǐyuē: “Xiàlǐ, wú néng yán zhī, Qǐ bùzú zhēng yě; Yīnlǐ, wú néng yán zhī, Sòng bùzú zhēng yě. Wénxiàn bùzú gù yě, zú zé wú néng zhēng zhī yǐ.” [Pinyin]

     The Master said, "I could describe the ceremonies of the Xia dynasty, but Qi cannot sufficiently attest my words. I could describe the ceremonies of the Yin dynasty, but Song cannot sufficiently attest my words. (They cannot do so) because of the insufficiency of their records and wise men. If those were sufficient, I could adduce them in support of my words."

4. a surname

獻

1. (historical) a method of filtering wine
2. (historical) sacrificial wine vessel

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 献)

1. to revere, to contribute, to present

• Go-on: こん (kon)^{←こん (kon, historical)}
• Kan-on: けん (ken)^{←けん (ken, historical)}
• Kun: たてまつる (tatematsuru, 獻る)
• Nanori: すすむ (susumu); たけ (take); ただす (tadasu); のぶ (nobu)

獻 • (heon, sa) (hangeul 헌, 사, revised heon, sa, McCune–Reischauer hŏn, sa, Yale hen, sa)

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獻: Hán Nôm readings: hiến

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