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See also:
U+3B0A, 㬊
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-3B0A

CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A

Translingual

Alternative forms

Han character

(Kangxi radical 72, +9 in Chinese, 日+10 in Japanese, 13 strokes in Chinese, 14 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 日月一水 (ABME), four-corner 60407, composition (GT) or (J))

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 498, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14063
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1524, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+3B0A

Usage notes

This character is not related with .

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声) : semantic (sun) + phonetic (OC *ɢʷan)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (62)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter hwanX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦuɑnX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦʷɑnX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣuɑnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦwanX/
Li
Rong
/ɣuɑnX/
Wang
Li
/ɣuɑnX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ɣuɑnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
huàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
wun6

Definitions

  1. bright; clear
    Synonym: (míng)
  2. a surname

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. bright; clear

Readings

  • Go-on: がん (gan)ぐわん (gwan, historical)
  • Kan-on: かん (kan)くわん (kwan, historical)

Usage notes

  • The Japanese representative glyph for this codepoint in Unicode has with 10 strokes as the bottom component. However, the character used in the Dai Kan-Wa Jiten is composed of , with 9 strokes for the component below the radical.
  • This character is not to be confused with (だん) (dan) ("warmth"), which has the same components but is ordered differently () and has different pronunciations and meanings.

References

  • ” in: 諸橋轍次 (Morohashi Tetsuji), chief ed. 大漢和辞典 (Dai Kan-Wa Jiten, “Comprehensive Chinese–Japanese Dictionary”). 13 vols. 1955–1960. Revised and enlarged ed. 1984–1986. Tokyo: Taishukan.