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Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 木一日一 (DMAM), four-corner 41916, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 526, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14774
  • Dae Jaweon: page 915, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1195, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+6853

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qʰrolʔ, *qʰonʔ
*qʰoːn, *ɡoːn, *qʰon
*ɡoːn, *ɡɯːŋ
*ɡoːn
*ɡoːn, *kɯːŋ
*ɡoːn
*sqʰon
*qʰonʔ
*qʰonʔ
*ɡʷaːn
*ɡʷaːn, *ɢʷan
*sqʰʷan
*sqʰʷan, *qʰʷanʔ
*sqʰʷan
*sqʰʷans
*qʰʷan
*qʰʷan
*qʰʷan
*qʰʷan
*qʰʷan
*qʰʷan
*ɢʷan
*qʰʷans

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (62)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦuɑn/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦʷɑn/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣuɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦwan/
Li
Rong
/ɣuɑn/
Wang
Li
/ɣuɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣuɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
huán
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
huán huán
Middle
Chinese
‹ hwan › ‹ hwan ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɢ]ʷˤar/ /*ɦʷˤar/ (< *[ɢ]ʷˤar)
English pillar; martial-looking 烏桓 Wūhuán: Avars (W. Hàn)

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. 14004
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡʷaːn/

Noun

  1. Chinese soapberry (Sapindus mukorossi)

Proper noun

  1. A surname.

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

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