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宦

宦

Translingual

Han character

宦 (radical 40 宀+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 十尸中中 (JSLL), four-corner 3071₇, composition ⿱宀臣)

officialdom, government official

References

KangXi: page 285, character 4

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7138

Dae Jaweon: page 563, character 6

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 924, character 1

Unihan data for U+5BA6

Chinese

simp. and trad.		宦

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): huàn (huan⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): waan⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: huàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄢˋ
  - Wade-Giles: huan⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huann
  - IPA ^(key): /xu̯a̠n⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: waan⁶
  - Yale: waahn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: waan⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /wɑːn²²/

Middle Chinese: /ɦˠuan^H/▼

Rime
Character	宦
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	刪 (70)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	胡慣切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠuan^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷᵚan^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɐn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwaɨn^H/
Li Rong	/ɣuan^H/
Wang Li	/ɣwan^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣwan^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huàn

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*m-kʷˤ<r>a[n]-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷraːns/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	宦
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	huàn
Middle Chinese	‹ hwæn^H ›
Old Chinese	/*m-kʷˤ<r>a[n]-s/
English	servant
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	宦
Reading #	1/1
No.	5361
Phonetic component	宦
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	患
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷraːns/

Definitions

宦

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Japanese

Kanji

宦

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Goon: げん (gen)

Kan’on: かん (kan)

Kun: つかえる (tsukaeru), まなぶ (manabu)

Korean

Hanja

宦 • ‎(hwan) (hangeul 환, revised hwan, McCune-Reischauer hwan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

宦 (hoạn)

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