鬟
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Translingual
Han character
鬟 (Kangxi radical 190, 髟+13, 23 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹田中女 (SHWLV), four-corner 72732, composition ⿱髟睘)
- dress hair in coiled knot
- maid
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1456, character 54
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45596
- Dae Jaweon: page 1988, character 18
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4536, character 9
- Unihan data for U+9B1F
Chinese
| simp. and trad. |
鬟 | |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 鬟 |
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| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Small seal script |
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| Old Chinese | |
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| 癏 | *kʷraːn |
| 擐 | *kʷraːn, *ɡʷraːns |
| 還 | *ɡʷraːn, *sɢʷan |
| 環 | *ɡʷraːn |
| 鬟 | *ɡʷraːn |
| 寰 | *ɡʷraːn, *ɡʷeːns |
| 闤 | *ɡʷraːn |
| 糫 | *ɡʷraːn |
| 圜 | *ɡʷraːn, *ɡʷen |
| 鐶 | *ɡʷraːn |
| 轘 | *ɡʷraːn, *ɡʷraːns |
| 澴 | *ɡʷraːn |
| 繯 | *ɡʷraːns, *ɡʷeːnʔ |
| 檈 | *sɢʷan, *sɢʷin |
| 儇 | *qʰʷen |
| 翾 | *qʰʷen |
| 蠉 | *qʰʷen, *qʰʷenʔ |
| 嬛 | *qʰʷen, *qʷen, *ɡʷeŋ |
| 譞 | *qʰʷen |
| 懁 | *kʷeːns |
| 獧 | *kʷeːns |
| 噮 | *qʷeːns |
| 彋 | *ɡʷreːŋ, *ɡʷreːŋ |
| 睘 | *ɡʷeŋ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡʷraːn) : semantic 髟 (“hair”) + phonetic 睘 (OC *ɡʷeŋ)
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄢˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: huán
- Wade–Giles: huan2
- Yale: hwán
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwan
- Palladius: хуань (xuanʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /xu̯än³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: waan4
- Yale: wàahn
- Cantonese Pinyin: waan4
- Guangdong Romanization: wan4
- Sinological IPA (key): /waːn²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Middle Chinese: hwaen
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷraːn/
Definitions
鬟
- a knot of hair on the head
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
鬟
- dress hair in coiled knot, in which Japanese men in Kofun and Asuka period wore their hair.
Readings
Korean
Hanja
鬟 • (hwan) (hangeul 환, revised hwan, McCune–Reischauer hwan, Yale hwan)
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