昏

昏 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹心日 (HPA), four-corner 7260₄, composition ⿱氏日)

• 𠉣, 㖧, 婚, 崏, 𰐲, 惛, 捪, 涽, 𰡙, 𣇲, 棔, 殙, 焝, 𤘏, 琘, 䄑, 𬛆, 睧, 碈, 𥟴, 𣨯, 緍(𦈏), 䎽, 𧍎, 諙, 𮛨, 𨌲, 錉, 𪑕
• 𡝪, 𢽹, 𣣏, 𬁀, 𣉈, 𦖞, 𬁌, 𭤉, 𨿹, 䫒, 𣋯, 𪂆(𪉎), 𧓢, 𡨩, 𮦘, 痻, 閽(阍), 𦟕, 𬀠

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 491, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13806
• Dae Jaweon: page 854, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1492, character 3
• Unihan data for U+660F

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 氏 + 日 (“sun”), or abbreviated 氐 + 日 (“sun”). Hence, the twilight or nightfall is the moment in which the sun (日) lowers and goes down (氏).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-mun (“dark”). Cognate with 悶 (OC *mɯːns, “bored; depressed”), Tibetan མུན་པ (mun pa, “darkness”), Burmese မှုန် (hmun, “dim; gloomy”).

昏

1. dusk; nightfall; twilight; dark
2. confused; dizzy; dazed; muddled
3. to faint; to lose consciousness
4. Alternative form of 婚 (hūn, “to marry”)

• “昏”, 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–

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. dark
2. evening, dusk

• Go-on: こん (kon)
• Kan-on: こん (kon)
• Kun: くらい (kurai, 昏い)、くれる (kureru, 昏れる)、たそがれ (tasogare)

From Middle Chinese 昏 (MC xwon). Recorded as Middle Korean 혼 (hwon) (Yale: hwon) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

昏

Wikisource

昏 (eumhun 어두울 혼 (eoduul hon))

1. hanja form^? of 혼 (“dark; dusk”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

昏: Hán Nôm readings: hôn, hon

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