昏

Translingual

Han character

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

1. dusk, nightfall, twilight, dark

References

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

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		昏

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hūn (hun¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: hūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄣ
    • Wade-Giles: hun¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huen
    • IPA ^(key): /xu̯ən⁵⁵/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fan¹
    • Yale: fān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fan¹
    • IPA ^(key): /fɐn⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (昏, reconstructed)
Character (昏), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 曉 (32) Final: 魂 Division: I			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 呼昆切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/huən/	/xuən/	/xuən/	/huon/	/hwən/	/xuən/	/xuən/

Old Chinese pronunciation (昏, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
昏								hūn								‹ xwon ›								/*m̥ ˤu[n]/								dusk, dark
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
昏					5529					昏					文					1					昏					/*hmɯːn/

Definitions

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Compounds

• 黄昏

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Japanese

Kanji

昏

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. dark
2. evening, dusk

Readings

• On: こん (kon)
• Kun: くらい (kurai)

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Korean

Hanja

昏 (hon) (hangeul 혼, revised hon, McCune-Reischauer hon, Yale hon)

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Vietnamese

Han character

昏 (hôn, hon)

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