渙

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See also: 涣
渙 U+6E19, 渙
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6E19
← 渘
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 渚 →

Translingual

Han character

渙 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水弓月大 (ENBK), four-corner 37134, composition ⿰氵奐)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 633, character 40
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17757
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1039, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 3, page 1683, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6E19

Chinese

trad. 渙
simp. 涣

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (奐) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
渙 *qʰʷaːds, *qʰʷaːns
瘓 *tqʰʷaːnʔ
喚 *qʰʷaːns
煥 *qʰʷaːns
奐 *qʰʷaːns
寏 *ɢʷaːn
換 *ɢʷaːns

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 渙 渙
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 曉 (32) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 泰 (26) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 呼會切 火貫切
Baxter xwajH xwanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/huɑiH/ /huɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/hʷɑiH/ /hʷɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/xuɑiH/ /xuɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/hwajH/ /hwanH/
Li
Rong 		/xuɑiH/ /xuɑnH/
Wang
Li 		/xuɑiH/ /xuɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/xuɑiH/ /xuɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		huì huàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		fui3 fun3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 渙
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		huàn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ xwanH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*qʷʰˁa-s/
English amply-flowing

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 渙 渙
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 5353 5357
Phonetic
component 		奐 奐
Rime
group 		祭 元
Rime
subdivision 		3 3
Corresponding
MC rime 		𧬨 喚
Old
Chinese 		/*qʰʷaːds/ /*qʰʷaːns/

Definitions

渙

  1. to dissipate; to dissolve
  2. (literary) to issue imperial edicts
  3. (literary) overflowing; brimming
  4. 59th hexagram of the I Ching

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

渙

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. scatter

Readings

Korean

Hanja

渙 (eum 환 (hwan))

  1. scatter
  2. scattered, dispersed

Vietnamese

Han character

渙: Hán Nôm readings: hoán

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References

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