煥

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See also: 烉 and 焕
煥 U+7165, 煥
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7165
← 煤
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 煦 →

Translingual

Han character

煥 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 火弓月大 (FNBK), four-corner 97834, composition ⿰火奐)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 677, character 33
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19224
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1089, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 3, page 2219, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7165

Chinese

trad. 煥
simp. 焕

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 火 (“fire”) + phonetic 奐 (OC *qʰʷaːns).

Pronunciation

Note: huêng3 - Chaozhou.
Rime
Character 煥
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/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/xuɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		huàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		fun3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 煥
Reading # 1/1
No. 5356
Phonetic
component 		奐
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		喚
Old
Chinese 		/*qʰʷaːns/

Definitions

煥

  1. † flare; blaze
  2. glowing; shining; lustrous; brilliant
  3. to radiate
  4. a surname

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

煥

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. shine

Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. shining, brilliant
  2. lustrous

Vietnamese

Han character

煥: Hán Việt readings: hoán

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