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歡

歡

See also: 歓, 驩, and 欢

Translingual

Traditional 歡
Shinjitai 歓
Simplified 欢

Han character

歡 (radical 76 欠+18, 22 strokes, cangjie input 廿土弓人 (TGNO), four-corner 47282, composition ⿰雚欠)

  1. happy, pleased, glad
  2. joy
  3. to enjoy

References

  • KangXi: page 573, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16242
  • Dae Jaweon: page 961, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2153, character 17
  • Unihan data for U+6B61

Chinese

trad. 歡
simp. 欢

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (雚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
觀 *koːn, *koːns
灌 *koːns
鸛 *koːns
瓘 *koːns
矔 *koːns, *kroːns
懽 *koːns, *qʰoːn
爟 *koːns
雚 *koːns
罐 *koːns
鑵 *koːns
歡 *qʰoːn
驩 *qʰoːn
貛 *qʰoːn
酄 *qʰoːn
獾 *qʰoːn
讙 *qʰoːn, *qʰon
嚾 *qʰoːns
權 *ɡron
顴 *ɡron
孉 *ɡron
蠸 *ɡron
虇 *kʰonʔ, *kʰons
勸 *kʰons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qʰoːn) : phonetic 雚 ‎(OC *koːns) + semantic 欠.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 歡
Mandarin Beijing /xuan⁵⁵/
Harbin /xuan⁴⁴/
Tianjin /xuan²¹/
Jinan /xuã²¹³/
Qingdao /xuã²¹³/
Zhengzhou /xuan²⁴/
Xi'an /xuã²¹/
Xining /xuã⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /xuan⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /xuɛ̃n³¹/
Ürümqi /xuan⁴⁴/
Wuhan /xuan⁵⁵/
Chengdu /xuan⁵⁵/
Guiyang /xuan⁵⁵/
Kunming /xuã̠⁴⁴/
Nanjing /xuaŋ³¹/
Hefei /xʊ̃²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /xuæ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /xuɑŋ¹³/
Hohhot /xuæ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /huø⁵³/
Suzhou /huø⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /huõ³³/
Wenzhou /ɕy³³/
Hui Shexian /xuɛ³¹/
Tunxi /xuːə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /xõ³³/
Xiangtan /hɔn³³/
Gan Nanchang /fɵn⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /fon⁵/
Taoyuan /fon²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /fun⁵³/
Nanning /fun⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /fun⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /huan⁵⁵/
/huã⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /huaŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xuiŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /huã³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /huaŋ²³/
/hua²³/
Rime
Character 歡
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 呼官切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /huɑn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /hʷɑn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xuɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hwan/
Li
Rong		 /xuɑn/
Wang
Li		 /xuɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xuɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 huān
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 歡
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 huān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ xwan ›
Old
Chinese		 /*qʷʰˤar/
English rejoice; joyous

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 歡
Reading # 1/1
No. 4487
Phonetic
component		 雚
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 歡
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰoːn/

Definitions

歡

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Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

歡

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 歓)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

歡 • ‎(hwan) (hangeul 환, revised hwan, McCune-Reischauer hwan, Yale hwan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

歡 (hoan, hoen)

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