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Translingual

Han character

(radical 72 +9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 日月十十 (ABJJ) or X日月十十 (XABJJ), four-corner 60506, composition)

  1. halo in the sky
  2. fog
  3. dizzy, faint

References

  • KangXi: page 497, character 37
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14037
  • Dae Jaweon: page 865, character 28
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1527, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6688

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qʰul
*qʰul
*qʰul
*qʰul
*qʰul, *ɡuːn, *ɡuːnʔ
*qʰul, *ɡuːn
*qʰul
*qʰons, *ɢuns
*kuːn
*kuːn, *ɢuns
*kuːnʔ, *ɡuːnʔ, *ɢuns
*kuːns, *ɡuːnʔ
*kuːns
*ŋɡuːn
*ŋɡuːn, *ŋɡuːns, *ɡuːn
*ŋɡuːns
*ɡuːn, *ɢuns
*ɡuːn, *ɡuːnʔ
*ɡuːn
*ɡuːn
*ɡuːn
*ɡuːnʔ
*kun
*kun, *kuns
*ŋɡunʔ
*ŋɡunʔ
*qʰun
*qunʔ
*qunʔ
*ɢuns
*ɢuns
*ɢuns

Pronunciation


hūn.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (35)
Final () (59)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦɨunH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦiunH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣiuənH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦunH/
Li
Rong
/ɣiuənH/
Wang
Li
/ɣĭuənH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i̯uənH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yùn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 7342
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɢuns/
Notes

Adjective

  1. dizzy; lightheaded

Verb

  1. to faint

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Noun

(hiragana かさ, romaji kasa)

  1. halo (atmospheric phenomenon)

Korean

Hanja

(hun, un) (hangeul , , revised hun, un, McCune-Reischauer hun, un, Yale hwun, wun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(vừng, quầng, vầng, vựng)

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