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喚

喚

喚 U+559A, 喚
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-559A
← 喙
[U+5599] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 喛 →
[U+559B]
See also: 唤

Translingual

Han character

喚 (radical 30 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口弓月大 (RNBK), four-corner 67034, composition ⿰口奐)

  1. call, summon
  2. invite
  3. be called

References

  • KangXi: page 199, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3953
  • Dae Jaweon: page 420, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 1, page 658, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+559A

Chinese

trad. 喚
simp. 唤

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

Rime
Character 喚
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 火貫切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /huɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /hʷɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xuɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hwanH/
Li
Rong		 /xuɑnH/
Wang
Li		 /xuɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xuɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 huàn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 喚
Reading # 1/1
No. 5355
Phonetic
component		 奐
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 喚
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰʷaːns/

Verb

喚

  1. to call, to summon

Japanese

Kanji

喚

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

喚 (hoán)

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