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Translingual

Han character

(radical 85 +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水日心心 (EAPP), four-corner 36111, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 632, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17694
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1036, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1648, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+6DF7

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kuːn
*kuːn
*kuːn
*kuːn
*kuːn
*kuːn
*kuːn, *kuːnʔ
*kuːn, *kuːnʔ
*kuːn
*kuːn
*kuːnʔ
*kuːnʔ
*kuːns, *ɡuːnʔ
*ɡuːn
*ɡuːnʔ
*ɡuːnʔ
*ɡuːnʔ
*ɡuːnʔ
*kʰrun

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡuːnʔ) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *kuːn).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (55)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦuənX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦuonX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣuənX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦwənX/
Li
Rong
/ɣuənX/
Wang
Li
/ɣuənX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣuənX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
hùn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 7536
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡuːnʔ/

Definitions

  1. to mix; to blend; to mingle
  2. to bumble along

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. to blend, mix, merge
  2. to confuse

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(hon, gon) (hangeul , , revised hon, gon, McCune-Reischauer hon, kon, Yale hon, kon)

  1. (섞을 ): mix, confuse, blend
  2. (흐릴 ): turbid, unclear
  3. (오랑캐 이름 ): (perhaps mixed) tribes west of ancient China.
    • 混夷 (곤이, gon-i) tribes west of ancient China
    • 混夷駾矣 (詩經) (곤이태의 (시경), gon-i-tae-ui (sigyeong)) Western tribes ride.
    • 西戎 (서융, seo-yung) tribes west of ancient China

Vietnamese

Han character

(hổn, hộn, hỗn, xổn, cổn, hỏn)

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