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渾

渾

See also: 浑

Translingual

Han character

渾 (radical 85 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水月十十 (EBJJ), four-corner 37156, composition ⿰氵軍)

  1. muddy, turbid
  2. blend, merge, mix

References

  • KangXi: page 635, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17800
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1043, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1687, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+6E3E

Chinese

trad. 渾
simp. 浑

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 渾
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (軍) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
揮 *qʰul
輝 *qʰul
翬 *qʰul
暉 *qʰul
煇 *qʰul, *ɡuːn, *ɡuːnʔ
楎 *qʰul, *ɡuːn
瀈 *qʰul
韗 *qʰons, *ɢuns
褌 *kuːn
鶤 *kuːn, *ɢuns
緷 *kuːnʔ, *ɡuːnʔ, *ɢuns
睴 *kuːns, *ɡuːnʔ
璭 *kuːns
瘒 *ŋɡuːn
顐 *ŋɡuːn, *ŋɡuːns, *ɡuːn
諢 *ŋɡuːns
餫 *ɡuːn, *ɢuns
渾 *ɡuːn, *ɡuːnʔ
琿 *ɡuːn
鼲 *ɡuːn
堚 *ɡuːn
鯶 *ɡuːnʔ
軍 *kun
皸 *kun, *kuns
齳 *ŋɡunʔ
喗 *ŋɡunʔ
葷 *qʰun
惲 *qunʔ
賱 *qunʔ
運 *ɢuns
暈 *ɢuns
鄆 *ɢuns

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 渾 渾
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 匣 (33) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 魂 (55) 魂 (55)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 戸昆切 胡本切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦuən/ /ɦuənX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦuon/ /ɦuonX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣuən/ /ɣuənX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦwən/ /ɦwənX/
Li
Rong		 /ɣuən/ /ɣuənX/
Wang
Li		 /ɣuən/ /ɣuənX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣuən/ /ɣuənX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 hún hùn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 渾 渾
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 hún hún
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hwon › ‹ hwonX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɡ]ˤ[u]r/ /*[ɡ]ˤurʔ/
English chaotic chaotic

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 渾 渾
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 7321 7328
Phonetic
component		 軍 軍
Rime
group		 文 文
Rime
subdivision		 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 䰟 混
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡuːn/ /*ɡuːnʔ/

Definitions

渾

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Japanese

Kanji

渾

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

渾 (hồn, hỗn)

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