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Translingual

Han character

(radical 86 +6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 火一日一 (FMAM), four-corner 91816, composition)

  1. light of the sun
  2. to dry in the sun

References

  • KangXi: page 670, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19018
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1080, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2199, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+70DC

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qʰrolʔ, *qʰonʔ
*qʰoːn, *ɡoːn, *qʰon
*ɡoːn, *ɡɯːŋ
*ɡoːn
*ɡoːn, *kɯːŋ
*ɡoːn
*sqʰon
*qʰonʔ
*qʰonʔ
*ɡʷaːn
*ɡʷaːn, *ɢʷan
*sqʰʷan
*sqʰʷan, *qʰʷanʔ
*sqʰʷan
*sqʰʷans
*qʰʷan
*qʰʷan
*qʰʷan
*qʰʷan
*qʰʷan
*qʰʷan
*ɢʷan
*qʰʷans

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (32) (32)
Final () (14) (66)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division () Chongniu III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/hˠiuᴇX/ /hʉɐnX/
Pan
Wuyun
/hʷᵚiɛX/ /hʷiɐnX/
Shao
Rongfen
/xiuɛX/ /xiuɐnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/hjwiə̆X/ /huanX/
Li
Rong
/xjueX/ /xiuɐnX/
Wang
Li
/xǐweX/ /xĭwɐnX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/xwie̯X/ /xi̯wɐnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
huǐ xuǎn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
huǐ xuǎn
Middle
Chinese
‹ xjweX › ‹ xjwonX ›
Old
Chinese
/*qʷʰarʔ/ (dialect: *-r > *-j) /*qʷʰarʔ/
English sunlight to dry in the sun

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. 3947 3957
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3 3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qʰrolʔ/ /*qʰonʔ/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(hwon) (hangeul , revised hwon, McCune-Reischauer hwŏn, Yale hwen)

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