↑ Xiahou Xuan's biography in Records of the Three Kingdoms mentioned that he was 46 years old (by East Asian age reckoning) when he was executed in the 6th year of the Jiaping era (249-254) of Cao Fang's reign. (嘉平六年二月，...玄格量弘濟，臨斬東巿，顏色不變，舉動自若，時年四十六。) By calculation, his birth year should be around 209.
