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鬟
鬟
Translingual
Han character
鬟 (radical 190 髟+13, 23 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹田中女 (SHWLV), four-corner 72732)
- dress hair in coiled knot
- maid
References
- KangXi: page 1456, character 54
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45596
- Dae Jaweon: page 1988, character 18
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4536, character 9
- Unihan data for U+9B1F
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
鬟 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 鬟
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|---|
| Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (睘) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 癏 | *kʷraːn |
| 擐 | *kʷraːn, *ɡʷraːns |
| 還 | *ɡʷraːn, *sɢʷan |
| 環 | *ɡʷraːn |
| 鬟 | *ɡʷraːn |
| 寰 | *ɡʷraːn, *ɡʷeːns |
| 闤 | *ɡʷraːn |
| 糫 | *ɡʷraːn |
| 圜 | *ɡʷraːn, *ɡʷen |
| 鐶 | *ɡʷraːn |
| 轘 | *ɡʷraːn, *ɡʷraːns |
| 澴 | *ɡʷraːn |
| 繯 | *ɡʷraːns, *ɡʷeːnʔ |
| 檈 | *sɢʷan, *sɢʷin |
| 儇 | *qʰʷen |
| 翾 | *qʰʷen |
| 蠉 | *qʰʷen, *qʰʷenʔ |
| 嬛 | *qʰʷen, *qʷen, *ɡʷeŋ |
| 譞 | *qʰʷen |
| 懁 | *kʷeːns |
| 獧 | *kʷeːns |
| 噮 | *qʷeːns |
| 彋 | *ɡʷreːŋ, *ɡʷreːŋ |
| 睘 | *ɡʷeŋ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡʷraːn) : semantic 髟 (“hair”) + phonetic 睘 (OC *ɡʷeŋ)
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄢˊ
- Wade-Giles: huan2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwan
- IPA (key): /xu̯a̠n³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: waan4
- Yale: wàahn
- Cantonese Pinyin: waan4
- IPA (key): /wɑːn²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 鬟 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 匣 (33) |
| Final (韻) | 刪 (70) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | II |
| Fanqie | 戸關切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ɦˠuan/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ɦʷᵚan/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ɣuɐn/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ɦwaɨn/ |
| Li Rong |
/ɣuan/ |
| Wang Li |
/ɣwan/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ɣwan/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
huán |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 鬟 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 16232 |
| Phonetic component |
睘 |
| Rime group |
元 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
還 |
| Old Chinese |
/*ɡʷraːn/ |
Definitions
鬟
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Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
鬟
- dress hair in coiled knot, in which Japanese men in Kofun and Asuka period wore their hair.
Readings
Korean
Hanja
鬟 • (hwan) (hangeul 환, revised hwan, McCune-Reischauer hwan, Yale hwan)
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