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U+559A, 喚
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-559A

[U+5599]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+559B]
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Translingual

Han character

(radical 30 +9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口弓月大 (RNBK), four-corner 67034, composition)

  1. call, summon
  2. invite
  3. be called

References

  • KangXi: page 199, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3953
  • Dae Jaweon: page 420, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 1, page 658, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+559A

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qʰʷaːds, *qʰʷaːns
*tqʰʷaːnʔ
*qʰʷaːns
*qʰʷaːns
*qʰʷaːns
*ɢʷaːn
*ɢʷaːns

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (32)
Final () (62)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/huɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/hʷɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/xuɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/hwanH/
Li
Rong
/xuɑnH/
Wang
Li
/xuɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/xuɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
huàn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 5355
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qʰʷaːns/

Verb

  1. to call, to summon

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(hwan) (hangeul , revised hwan, McCune-Reischauer hwan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(hoán)

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