桓

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桓 U+6853, 桓
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6853
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 桔 →

Translingual

Han character

桓 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 木一日一 (DMAM), four-corner 41916, composition ⿰木亘)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 526, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14774
  • Dae Jaweon: page 915, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1195, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+6853

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 桓
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Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 桓
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (亘) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
烜 *qʰrolʔ, *qʰonʔ
貆 *qʰoːn, *ɡoːn, *qʰon
峘 *ɡoːn, *ɡɯːŋ
狟 *ɡoːn
絙 *ɡoːn, *kɯːŋ
荁 *ɡoːn
宣 *sqʰon
咺 *qʰonʔ
暅 *qʰonʔ
桓 *ɡʷaːn
洹 *ɡʷaːn, *ɢʷan
揎 *sqʰʷan
愃 *sqʰʷan, *qʰʷanʔ
瑄 *sqʰʷan
渲 *sqʰʷans
喧 *qʰʷan
萱 *qʰʷan
暄 *qʰʷan
諠 *qʰʷan
翧 *qʰʷan
蝖 *qʰʷan
垣 *ɢʷan
楦 *qʰʷans

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡʷaːn) : semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 亘 ()

Pronunciation

Note:
  • huang5 - Shantou;
  • huêng5 - Chaozhou.
    Rime
    Character 桓
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
    Final (韻) 桓 (62)
    Tone (調) Level (Ø)
    Openness (開合) Closed
    Division (等) I
    Fanqie 胡官切
    Baxter hwan
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang         		/ɦuɑn/
    Pan
    Wuyun         		/ɦʷɑn/
    Shao
    Rongfen         		/ɣuɑn/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank         		/ɦwan/
    Li
    Rong         		/ɣuɑn/
    Wang
    Li         		/ɣuɑn/
    Bernhard
    Karlgren         		/ɣuɑn/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex         		huán
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex         		wun4
    Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character 桓 桓
    Reading # 1/2 2/2
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)         		huán huán
    Middle
    Chinese         		‹ hwan › ‹ hwan ›
    Old
    Chinese         		/*ʷˁar/ /*ɦʷˁar/ (< *ʷˁar)
    English pillar; martial-looking 烏桓 Wūhuán: Avars (W. Hàn)

    Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

    * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
    * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 桓
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 14004
    Phonetic
    component         		亘
    Rime
    group         		元
    Rime
    subdivision         		1
    Corresponding
    MC rime         		桓
    Old
    Chinese         		/*ɡʷaːn/

    Definitions

    桓

    1. Chinese soapberry (Sapindus mukorossi)
    2. (obsolete) pillar used as a signpost
    3. mighty; martial; large
    4. Used in 盤桓／盘桓 (pánhuán).
    5. a surname

    Compounds

    References

    • “桓”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
    • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “桓”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 93.

    Japanese

    Kanji

    桓

    (Hyōgai kanji)

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    Readings

    • Go-on: がん (gan)
    • Kan-on: かん (kan)

    Korean

    Hanja

    桓 • (hwan) (hangeul 환, revised hwan, McCune–Reischauer hwan, Yale hwan)

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    Vietnamese

    Han character

    桓: Hán Nôm readings: hoàn

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