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U+8B99, 讙
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8B99

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 149, +18, 25 strokes, cangjie input 卜口廿口土 (YRTRG), four-corner 04614, composition )

  1. cheer
  2. noise, noisy

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1187, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36157
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1651, character 28
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4033, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+8B99

Chinese

trad.
simp. 𬤰

Glyph origin

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (32) (32)
Final () (66) (62)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division () III I
Fanqie
Baxter xjwon xwan
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/hʉɐn/ /huɑn/
Pan
Wuyun
/hʷiɐn/ /hʷɑn/
Shao
Rongfen
/xiuɐn/ /xuɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/huan/ /hwan/
Li
Rong
/xiuɐn/ /xuɑn/
Wang
Li
/xĭwɐn/ /xuɑn/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/xi̯wɐn/ /xuɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xuān huān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
hyun1 fun1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
huān
Middle
Chinese
‹ xjwon ›
Old
Chinese
/*qʷʰar/
English clamor, shout

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 4493 4503
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3 3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qʰoːn/ /*qʰon/

Definitions

  1. (literary) to clamor; to make a racket
  2. Alternative form of (huān)

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. noisy
  2. disputatious

Readings

From Middle Chinese (MC xwan); compare Mandarin (huān):

  • Go-on: かん (kan)くわん (kwan, historical)
  • Kan-on: かん (kan)くわん (kwan, historical)

From Middle Chinese (MC xjwon); compare Mandarin (xuān):

From native Japanese roots:

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

(hwan, hwon) (hangeul , , revised hwan, hwon, McCune–Reischauer hwan, hwŏn, Yale hwan, hwen)

  1. cheer
  2. noise, noisy