幻

幻 (Kangxi radical 52, 幺+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 女戈尸 (VIS) or 難女戈尸 (XVIS), four-corner 2772₀, composition ⿰幺𠃌)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 341, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9190
• Dae Jaweon: page 650, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1093, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5E7B

Historical forms of the character 幻
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Three interpretations, all of which are ideogram (指事) :

• Variant of 玄 with an elongated stroke to distinguish (Ji Xusheng).
• Abbreviation of 縣 (He Linyi).
• Inversion of 予 (Shuowen Jiezi).

幻

1. mystical; mysterious
2. illusion; fantasy; mirage

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

(Jōyō kanji)

1. fantasy, phantom

• Go-on: げん (gen, Jōyō)^{←げん (gen, historical)←ぐゑん (gwen, ancient)}
• Kan-on: かん (kan)^{←くわん (kwan, historical)}
• Kun: まぼろし (maboroshi, 幻, Jōyō)

Probably from Old Japanese. Used in The Tale of Genji, completed in 1021.^[1][2]

The initial ma is almost certainly 目 (ma, modern me, “eye”). The boroshi portion is of uncertain derivation, possibly related to modern colloquial adjective ぼろい (boroi, “rough, ragged, worn-out”), or verb ばらす (barasu, “to mess something up”).

• (Tokyo) まぼろし (Heiban – )^[2]
• IPA^(key):

幻(まぼろし) • (maboroshi) 

1. an illusion, a phantom, a dream, a vision

幻 • (hwan) (hangeul 환, revised hwan, McCune–Reischauer hwan)

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幻: Hán Nôm readings: huyễn, hoẻn, ảo

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• Ảo appears to be a misreading due to confusion with the character 抝 or 拗 (ảo).