Translingual

Han character

環 (radical 96 玉+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 一土田中女 (MGWLV), four-corner 1613₂, composition ⿰𤣩睘)

1. jade ring or bracelet
2. ring

References

• KangXi: page 743, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21287
• Dae Jaweon: page 1152, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1140, character 5
• Unihan data for U+74B0

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 環
Bronze inscriptions	Bamboo and silk script	Large seal script	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡʷraːn) : semantic 玉 ‎(“jade”) + phonetic 睘 ‎(OC *ɡʷeŋ).

Pronunciation

Definitions

環

1. circle
2. round

Compounds

• 環境／环境 (huánjìng)
• 環保／环保 (huánbǎo)

References

• “Entry #12261”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. circle, ring, wheel

Readings

• Goon: げん (gen) (non-Jōyō reading), (historical) ぐゑん (gwen))
• Kan’on: かん (kan), (historical) くわん (kwan)
• Kun: わ (wa), たまき (tamaki), ゆびまき (yubimaki)
• Nanori: たま (tama)

Compounds

Etymology 1

From Middle Chinese 環 ‎(hwæn).

Pronunciation

• On'yomi: Kan'on
• (Tokyo) か​ん [káꜜǹ] (Atamadaka - [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [kã̠ɴ]

Noun

環 ‎(hiragana かん, romaji kan, historical hiragana くわん)

1. ring
2. (algebra) ring

Prefix

環 ‎(hiragana かん, romaji kan-, historical hiragana くわん)

1. circum-

Etymology 2

From Old Japanese.

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) わ​ [wáꜜ] (Atamadaka - [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɰᵝa̠]

Alternative forms

• 輪

Noun

環 ‎(hiragana わ, romaji wa)

1. a ring or circle shape (such as a ring for a finger, or Saturn's rings)
2. a hoop (such as for a barrel)
3. a wheel (as of a vehicle)

Synonyms

• (circle shape): 丸 (まる) ‎(maru), 円形 (えんけい) ‎(enkei)
• (finger ring): 指輪 (ゆびわ) ‎(yubiwa)
• (barrel hoop): 箍 (たが) ‎(taga)
• (vehicle wheel): 車輪 (しゃりん) ‎(sharin)

Etymology 3

Originally a compound of 手 ‎(ta, “hand”, ancient combining form of modern te) +‎ 巻き ‎(maki, “winding, wrapping”, the 連用形 ‎(ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 巻く maku, “to wind, to wrap”), from the way that the bracelet would be worn around the wrist.

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) た​まき [táꜜmàkì] (Atamadaka - [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ta̠ma̠kʲi]

Alternative forms

• 手纏, 鐶

Noun

環 ‎(hiragana たまき, romaji tamaki)

1. an ancient bracelet strung with jewels or bells and worn at the elbow
2. a longer tube-shaped gauntlet to protect the hand during archery
3. (obsolete) a ancient jewel or other stone in the shape of a ring

Synonyms

• (archery gauntlet): 手覆 (たおおい) ‎(taōi)
• (ring): 指輪 (ゆびわ) ‎(yubiwa), 環 (yubimaki) (see below)

Etymology 4

Originally a compound of 指 ‎(yubi, “finger”, ancient combining form of modern te) +‎ 巻き ‎(maki, “winding, wrapping”, the 連用形 ‎(ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 巻く maku, “to wind, to wrap”), from the way that the ring would be worn around a finger.

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• IPA^(key): [jɯᵝbima̠kʲi]

Alternative forms

• 指巻, 鐶

Noun

環 ‎(hiragana ゆびまき, romaji yubimaki)

1. (obsolete) a ancient jewel or other stone in the shape of a ring

Synonyms

• 指輪 (ゆびわ) ‎(yubiwa), 環 (tamaki) (see above)

References

1. 1 2 3 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
2. 1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

環 (hoàn)

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