換

換 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 手弓月大 (QNBK), four-corner 5703₄, composition ⿰扌奐)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 442, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12358
• Dae Jaweon: page 793, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 3, page 1922, character 4
• Unihan data for U+63DB

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɢʷaːns) : semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 奐 (OC *qʰʷaːns).

換

1. to exchange

   用石油換糧食／用石油换粮食  ―  yòng shíyóu huàn liángshí  ―  to trade oil for grain

   一百元人民幣能換多少港幣？ [MSC, trad.]
   一百元人民币能换多少港币？ [MSC, simp.]

   Yībǎi yuán rénmínbì néng huàn duōshào gǎngbì?

   How many Hong Kong dollars can one hundred renminbi be exchanged for?

2. to change; to swap; to switch; to substitute

   換衣服／换衣服  ―  huàn yīfu  ―  to change one's clothes

   政府換咗人又點啫？ [Cantonese, trad.]
   政府换咗人又点啫？ [Cantonese, simp.]

   zing³ fu² wun⁶ zo² jan⁴ jau⁶ dim² ze¹?

   OK, the head of government has changed; so what?

• “換”, 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–
• “Entry #8431”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

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

(Jōyō kanji)

1. to interchange

• Go-on: がん (gan)^{←ぐわん (gwan, historical)}
• Kan-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)^{←くわん (kwan, historical)}
• Kun: かえる (kaeru, 換える, Jōyō)、かわる (kawaru, 換わる, Jōyō)

From Middle Chinese 換 (MC hwanH).

• IPA^(key):

換(かん) • (kan) ^{←くわん (kwan)?}

1. to exchange

換 • (hwan) (hangeul 환)

1. change, exchange
2. substitute

換: Hán Nôm readings: hoán

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