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See also:
U+96C8, 雈
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96C8

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 172, +4, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿人土 (TOG) or 難難廿人土 (XXTOG), four-corner 44214, composition )

Usage notes

This character contains the ram's horn component () and is not to be confused with (U+8411) which contains the grass radical ().

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1365, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41980
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4092, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+96C8

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alternative forms corrupted form

Glyph origin

Pictogram (象形) . Compare .

Pronunciation



BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
huán
Middle
Chinese
‹ hwan ›
Old
Chinese
/*ɢʷˁar/
English a kind of owl

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 5351
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡoːn/

Etymology 1

Definitions

  1. type of owl

Etymology 2

Borrowed for another homophonous word; compare (guǎn) (pipe).

Alternative forms

Definitions

  1. reed

Compounds

Etymology 3

Definitions

  1. Only used in 雈蘭雈兰.

References

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): かん (kan)がん (gan)
  • Kun: みみずく (mimizuku)