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Japanese | 環 |
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Simplified | 环 |
Traditional | 環 |
環 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 一土田中女 (MGWLV), four-corner 16132, composition ⿰𤣩睘)
trad. | 環 | |
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simp. | 环* |
Historical forms of the character 環 | ||||
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Western Zhou | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) | |
Bronze inscriptions | Chu slip and silk script | Qin slip script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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References:
Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
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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 玉 (“jade”) + phonetic 睘 (OC *ɡʷeŋ).
Variety | Location | 環 |
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Mandarin | Beijing | /xuan³⁵/ |
Harbin | /xuan²⁴/ | |
Tianjin | /xuan⁴⁵/ | |
Jinan | /xuã⁴²/ | |
Qingdao | /xuã⁴²/ | |
Zhengzhou | /xuan⁴²/ | |
Xi'an | /xuã²⁴/ | |
Xining | /xuã²⁴/ | |
Yinchuan | /xuan⁵³/ | |
Lanzhou | /xuɛ̃n⁵³/ | |
Ürümqi | /xuan⁵¹/ | |
Wuhan | /xuan²¹³/ | |
Chengdu | /xuan³¹/ | |
Guiyang | /xuan²¹/ | |
Kunming | /xuã̠³¹/ | |
Nanjing | /kʰuaŋ²⁴/ /xuaŋ²⁴/ | |
Hefei | /xuæ̃⁵⁵/ | |
Jin | Taiyuan | /xuæ̃¹¹/ |
Pingyao | /xuɑŋ¹³/ | |
Hohhot | /xuæ̃³¹/ | |
Wu | Shanghai | /ɡue²³/ |
Suzhou | /ɡue̞¹³/ | |
Hangzhou | /ɡuõ²¹³/ | |
Wenzhou | /va³¹/ | |
Hui | Shexian | /xuɛ⁴⁴/ /uɛ⁴⁴/ |
Tunxi | /uːən⁴⁴/ | |
Xiang | Changsha | /fan¹³/ |
Xiangtan | /ɸan¹²/ | |
Gan | Nanchang | /uan⁴⁵/ 耳~ /fan⁴⁵/ 門~ |
Hakka | Meixian | /fan¹¹/ |
Taoyuan | /kʰuɑn¹¹/ | |
Cantonese | Guangzhou | /wan²¹/ |
Nanning | /wan²¹/ | |
Hong Kong | /wan²¹/ | |
Min | Xiamen (Hokkien) | /huan³⁵/ /kʰuan³⁵/ |
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) | /kʰuaŋ⁵³/ | |
Jian'ou (Northern Min) | /uiŋ²¹/ | |
Shantou (Teochew) | /huaŋ⁵⁵/ | |
Haikou (Hainanese) | /huaŋ³¹/ |
環
From Cantonese 灣/湾 (waan1-4, “bay”), used in certain place names. The low-falling tone change is possibly borrowed from Siyi Yue (Lau and Tang, 2020).
環
Shinjitai | 環 | |
Kyūjitai |
環󠄁 環+ 󠄁 ?(Adobe-Japan1) |
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環󠄃 環+ 󠄃 ?(Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho) | ||
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環 |
かん Grade: S |
on'yomi |
From Middle Chinese 環 (MC hwaen).
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環 |
わ Grade: S |
kun'yomi |
Alternative spelling |
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輪 |
From Old Japanese.
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環 |
たまき Grade: S |
kun'yomi |
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手纏 鐶 |
Originally a compound of 手 (ta, “hand”, ancient combining form of modern te) + 巻き (maki, “winding, wrapping”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 巻く maku, “to wind, to wrap”), from the way that the bracelet would be worn around the wrist.
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環 |
ゆびまき Grade: S |
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指巻 鐶 |
Originally a compound of 指 (yubi, “finger”, noun) + 巻き (maki, “winding, wrapping”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 巻く maku, “to wind, to wrap”), from the way that the ring would be worn around a finger.
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