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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 木月十十 (DBJJ), four-corner 47950, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 538, character 38
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15118
  • Dae Jaweon: page 926, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1256, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+694E

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qʰul
*qʰul
*qʰul
*qʰul
*qʰul, *ɡuːn, *ɡuːnʔ
*qʰul, *ɡuːn
*qʰul
*qʰons, *ɢuns
*kuːn
*kuːn, *ɢuns
*kuːnʔ, *ɡuːnʔ, *ɢuns
*kuːns, *ɡuːnʔ
*kuːns
*ŋɡuːn
*ŋɡuːn, *ŋɡuːns, *ɡuːn
*ŋɡuːns
*ɡuːn, *ɢuns
*ɡuːn, *ɡuːnʔ
*ɡuːn
*ɡuːn
*ɡuːn
*ɡuːnʔ
*kun
*kun, *kuns
*ŋɡunʔ
*ŋɡunʔ
*qʰun
*qunʔ
*qunʔ
*ɢuns
*ɢuns
*ɢuns

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (32) (33)
Final () (21) (55)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division () III I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/hʉi/ /ɦuən/
Pan
Wuyun
/hʷɨi/ /ɦuon/
Shao
Rongfen
/xiuəi/ /ɣuən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/huj/ /ɦwən/
Li
Rong
/xiuəi/ /ɣuən/
Wang
Li
/xĭwəi/ /ɣuən/
Bernard
Karlgren
/xwe̯i/ /ɣuən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
huī hún
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
huī hún
Middle
Chinese
‹ xjwɨj › ‹ hwon ›
Old
Chinese
/*qʷʰər/ /*[ɢ]ʷˤər/
English clothes-peg seed-plow

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 7308 7324
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qʰul/ /*ɡuːn/

Definitions

  1. wooden clothes peg (nailed to the wall)

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings