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Translingual

Han character

(radical 190 +13, 23 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹田中女 (SHWLV), four-corner 72732)

  1. dress hair in coiled knot
  2. maid

References

  • KangXi: page 1456, character 54
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45596
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1988, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4536, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+9B1F

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʷraːn
*kʷraːn, *ɡʷraːns
*ɡʷraːn, *sɢʷan
*ɡʷraːn
*ɡʷraːn
*ɡʷraːn, *ɡʷeːns
*ɡʷraːn
*ɡʷraːn
*ɡʷraːn, *ɡʷen
*ɡʷraːn
*ɡʷraːn, *ɡʷraːns
*ɡʷraːn
*ɡʷraːns, *ɡʷeːnʔ
*sɢʷan, *sɢʷin
*qʰʷen
*qʰʷen
*qʰʷen, *qʰʷenʔ
*qʰʷen, *qʷen, *ɡʷeŋ
*qʰʷen
*kʷeːns
*kʷeːns
*qʷeːns
*ɡʷreːŋ, *ɡʷreːŋ
*ɡʷeŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡʷraːn) : semantic  (hair) + phonetic  (OC *ɡʷeŋ)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (70)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦˠuan/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦʷᵚan/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣuɐn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦwaɨn/
Li
Rong
/ɣuan/
Wang
Li
/ɣwan/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣwan/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
huán
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 16232
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡʷraːn/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 上鬟 (shànghuán)
  • 丫鬟 (yāhuan)
  • 低鬟
  • 婭鬟娅鬟
  • 小鬟
  • 煙鬟烟鬟
  • 翠鬟
  • 雙鬟双鬟
  • 雲鬟云鬟
  • 霧鬢風鬟雾鬓风鬟
  • 風鬟雨鬢风鬟雨鬓
  • 風鬟霧鬢风鬟雾鬓
  • 鴉鬟鸦鬟
  • 黛鬟

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. dress hair in coiled knot, in which Japanese men in Kofun and Asuka period wore their hair.

Readings

  • On: かん (kan)
  • Kun: わげ (wage), みずら (mizura)

Korean

Hanja

(hwan) (hangeul , revised hwan, McCune-Reischauer hwan, Yale hwan)

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