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Translingual

Han character

(radical 32 +10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 土口月金 (GRBC), four-corner 46186, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 236, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5360
  • Dae Jaweon: page 474, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 472, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5864

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ɢon, *ɢun
*ɢon
*qʰon
*sqʰuːnʔ
*ɢun
*ɢunʔ
*ɢunʔ
*ɢunʔ, *ɢun
*ɢunʔ
*ɢunʔ
*ɢunʔ, *ɢun
*qʰun
*ɢun
*ɢun
*ɢun, *ɢuns
*ɢʷɯns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qʰon) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *ɢon, *ɢun).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (32)
Final () (66)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/hʉɐn/
Pan
Wuyun
/hʷiɐn/
Shao
Rongfen
/xiuɐn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/huan/
Li
Rong
/xiuɐn/
Wang
Li
/xĭwɐn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/xi̯wɐn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xuān
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xuān
Middle
Chinese
‹ xjwon ›
Old
Chinese
/*qʰo[n]/
English ocarina

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 16201
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qʰon/

Definitions

  1. (music) an ancient flute made of clay or ceramic (egg-shaped holed wind instrument)

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. Alternative form of

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(hun) (hangeul , revised hun, McCune-Reischauer hun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(ven)

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