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昏

昏

Translingual

Han character

昏 (radical 72 日+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹心日 (HPA), four-corner 72604, composition ⿱氏日)

References

  • KangXi: page 491, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13806
  • Dae Jaweon: page 854, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1492, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+660F

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 昏
alt. forms 昬

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (昏) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鍲 *mrɯn
抿 *mrɯn, *mrɯn, *mrɯnʔ
緡 *mrɯn
捪 *mrɯnʔ
湣 *mrɯnʔ
昏 *hmɯːn
婚 *hmɯːn
閽 *hmɯːn
惛 *hmɯːn, *hmɯːnʔ, *hmɯːns
棔 *hmɯːn
殙 *hmɯːn

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 昏
Mandarin Beijing /xuən⁵⁵/
Harbin /xuən⁴⁴/
Tianjin /xuən²¹/
Jinan /xuẽ²¹³/
Qingdao /xuə̃²¹³/
Zhengzhou /xuən²⁴/
Xi'an /xuẽ²¹/
Xining /xuə̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /xuŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /xũn³¹/
Ürümqi /xuŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /xuən⁵⁵/
Chengdu /xuən⁵⁵/
Guiyang /xuen⁵⁵/
Kunming /xuə̃/
Nanjing /xun³¹/
Hefei /xuən²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /xuəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /xuŋ¹³/
Hohhot /xũŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /huəŋ⁵³/
Suzhou /huən⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /hun³³/
Wenzhou /ɕy³³/
Hui Shexian /xuʌ̃³¹/
Tunxi /xuɛ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /fən³³/
Xiangtan /ɸən³³/
Gan Nanchang /fɨn⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /fun⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /fun²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /fɐn⁵³/
Nanning /wɐn⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /fɐn⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hun⁵⁵/
/hŋ̍⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /huŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xɔŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /huŋ³³/
/hŋ̍³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hun²³/
/hui²³/
Rime
Character 昏
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 魂 (55)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 呼昆切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /huən/
Pan
Wuyun		 /huon/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xuən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hwən/
Li
Rong		 /xuən/
Wang
Li		 /xuən/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xuən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 hūn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 昏
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 hūn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ xwon ›
Old
Chinese		 /*m̥ˤu[n]/
English dusk, dark

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 昏
Reading # 1/1
No. 5529
Phonetic
component		 昏
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 昏
Old
Chinese		 /*hmɯːn/

Definitions

昏

  1. dusk, nightfall, twilight, dark
  2. confused; dizzy; dazed; muddled
  3. faint, lose consciousness

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

昏

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. dark
  2. evening, dusk

Readings

Korean

Hanja

昏 • ‎(hon) (hangeul 혼, revised hon, McCune-Reischauer hon, Yale hon)

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Vietnamese

Han character

昏 (hôn, hon)

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