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Translingual

Han character

(radical 52 +1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 女戈尸 (VIS) or X女戈尸 (XVIS), four-corner 27720, composition𠃌)

References

  • KangXi: page 341, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9190
  • Dae Jaweon: page 650, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1093, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5E7B

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /xuan⁵¹/
Harbin /xuan⁵³/
Tianjin /xuan⁵³/
Jinan /xuã²¹/
Qingdao /xuã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /xuan³¹²/
Xi'an /xuã⁴⁴/
Xining /xuã²¹³/
Yinchuan /xuan¹³/
Lanzhou /xuɛ̃n¹³/
Ürümqi /xuan²¹³/
Wuhan /xuan³⁵/
Chengdu /xuan¹³/
Guiyang /xuan²¹³/
Kunming /xuã̠²¹²/
Nanjing /xuaŋ⁴⁴/
Hefei /xʊ̃⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /xuæ̃⁴⁵/
Pingyao /xuɑŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /xuæ̃⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ue³⁵/
Suzhou /ue̞⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /ɦuõ¹³/
Wenzhou /v̠a³⁵/
Hui Shexian /xuɛ²²/
Tunxi /xuːə⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /xõ⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /hɔn⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /fɵn²¹/
/fan²¹/
Hakka Meixian /fan⁵³/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /wan²²/
Nanning /wan²²/
Hong Kong /wan²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /huan²²/
/huan²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /huɑŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xuiŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /huaŋ²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /huaŋ³⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (74)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦˠuɛnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦʷᵚænH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣuænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦwəɨnH/
Li
Rong
/ɣuɛnH/
Wang
Li
/ɣwænH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣwănH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
huàn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 5352
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡʷreːns/

Definitions

  1. mystical; mysterious
  2. illusion; fantasy; mirage

Compounds

  • 夢幻梦幻 (mènghuàn)
  • 夢幻劇梦幻剧
  • 夢幻泡影梦幻泡影
  • 太虛幻境太虚幻境
  • 奇幻
  • 奇幻迷離奇幻迷离
  • 如夢似幻如梦似幻
  • 如幻似真
  • 幻世
  • 幻人
  • 幻光
  • 幻化
  • 幻塵幻尘
  • 幻境 (huànjìng)
  • 幻夢幻梦
  • 幻夢成空幻梦成空
  • 幻影 (huànyǐng)
  • 幻覺幻觉 (huànjué)
  • 幻象 (huànxiàng)
  • 泡幻
  • 科幻 (kēhuàn)
  • 科幻小說科幻小说
  • 科幻電影科幻电影
  • 空幻
  • 虛幻虚幻 (xūhuàn)
  • 譸張為幻诪张为幻
  • 變幻变幻 (biànhuàn)
  • 變幻不測变幻不测
  • 變幻無常变幻无常
  • 變幻莫測变幻莫测 (biànhuànmòcè)
  • 迷幻藥迷幻药
  • 風雲變幻风云变幻
  • 魔幻 (móhuàn)

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. phantasm; vision; dream; illusion; apparition

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Probably from Old Japanese; used in The Tale of Genji, completed in 1021.

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana まぼろし, romaji maboroshi)

  1. an illusion, a phantom, a dream, a vision

Derived terms

  •  (まぼろし) () (maboroshi o ou): to pursue phantoms

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(huyễn, hoẻn, ảo)

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Usage notes

  • Ảo appears to be a misreading due to confusion with the character or (ảo). It is the predominant reading in most Sino-Vietnamese words containing the character 幻. The "appropriate" reading huyễn occurs only in huyễn hoặc.