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渙

渙

See also: 涣

Translingual

Han character

渙 (radical 85 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水弓月大 (ENBK), four-corner 3713₄, composition ⿰氵奐)

References

KangXi: page 633, character 40

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17757

Dae Jaweon: page 1039, character 26

Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 3, page 1683, character 1

Unihan data for U+6E19

Chinese

trad.		渙
simp.		涣

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (奐) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
渙	qʰʷaːds, qʰʷaːns
瘓	*tqʰʷaːnʔ
喚	*qʰʷaːns
煥	*qʰʷaːns
奐	*qʰʷaːns
寏	*ɢʷaːn
換	*ɢʷaːns

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): huàn (huan⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): wun⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: huàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄢˋ
  - Wade-Giles: huan⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huann
  - IPA ^(key): /xu̯a̠n⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: wun⁶
  - Yale: wuhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: wun⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /wuːn²²/

Middle Chinese: /huɑi^H/, /huɑn^H/▼

Rime
Character	渙	渙
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	泰 (26)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	呼會切	火貫切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/huɑi^H/	/huɑn^H/
Pan Wuyun	/hʷɑi^H/	/hʷɑn^H/
Shao Rongfen	/xuɑi^H/	/xuɑn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hwaj^H/	/hwan^H/
Li Rong	/xuɑi^H/	/xuɑn^H/
Wang Li	/xuɑi^H/	/xuɑn^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/xuɑi^H/	/xuɑn^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huì	huàn

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*qʷʰˤa[n]-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*qʰʷaːds/, /*qʰʷaːns/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	渙
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	huàn
Middle Chinese	‹ xwan^H ›
Old Chinese	/*qʷʰˤa[n]-s/
English	amply-flowing
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	渙	渙
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	5353	5357
Phonetic component	奐	奐
Rime group	祭	元
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	𧬨	喚
Old Chinese	/*qʰʷaːds/	/*qʰʷaːns/

Definitions

渙

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Compounds

人心渙散／人心涣散
人心渙漓／人心涣漓
判渙／判涣
叛渙／叛涣
泮渙／泮涣

渙乎／涣乎
渙散／涣散
渙汗／涣汗
渙渙／涣涣

渙然／涣然
渙然冰釋／涣然冰释
王之渙／王之涣
精神渙散／精神涣散

Japanese

Kanji

渙

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On: かん (kan)

Kun: あきらか (akiraka)

Korean

Hanja

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

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