喚

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See also: 唤
喚 U+559A, 喚
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-559A
← 喙
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 喛 →

Translingual

Han character

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

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

References

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

Chinese

trad. 喚
simp. 唤

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (奐) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
渙 *qʰʷaːds, *qʰʷaːns
瘓 *tqʰʷaːnʔ
喚 *qʰʷaːns
煥 *qʰʷaːns
奐 *qʰʷaːns
寏 *ɢʷaːn
換 *ɢʷaːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰʷaːns) : semantic 口 + phonetic 奐 (OC *qʰʷaːns).

Pronunciation

Note: huêng3 - Chaozhou.
Rime
Character 喚
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 火貫切
Baxter xwanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/huɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/hʷɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/xuɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/hwanH/
Li
Rong 		/xuɑnH/
Wang
Li 		/xuɑnH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/xuɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		huàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		fun3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 喚
Reading # 1/1
No. 5355
Phonetic
component 		奐
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		喚
Old
Chinese 		/*qʰʷaːns/

Definitions

喚

  1. to call; to summon

Synonyms

Compounds

References

  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “唤”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 93.

Japanese

Kanji

喚

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)
  • Kun: よぶ (yobu, 喚ぶ)、わめく (wameku, 喚く)
  • Nanori: よぶ (yobu)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
喚
かん
Grade: S
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 喚 (MC xwanH).

Pronunciation

Affix

喚(かん) • (kan) ←くわん (kwan)?

  1. to shout; to cry
  2. to call; to summon

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 喚 (MC xwanH).

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

喚 (eumhun 부를 환 (bureul hwan))

  1. hanja form? of 환 (“call”)

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

喚: Hán Nôm readings: hoán

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