閽

See also: 阍

閽 U+95BD, 閽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-95BD ← 閼 [U+95BC] CJK Unified Ideographs 閾 → [U+95BE]

Translingual

Han character

閽 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 日弓竹心日 (ANHPA), four-corner 7760₅, composition ⿵門昏)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1337, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41383
• Dae Jaweon: page 1843, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4305, character 9
• Unihan data for U+95BD

Chinese

trad.		閽
simp.		阍

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (昏) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
鍲	*mrɯn
抿	*mrɯn, *mrɯn, *mrɯnʔ
緡	*mrɯn
捪	*mrɯnʔ
湣	*mrɯnʔ
昏	*hmɯːn
婚	*hmɯːn
閽	*hmɯːn
惛	*hmɯːn, *hmɯːnʔ, *hmɯːns
棔	*hmɯːn
殙	*hmɯːn

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hūn (hun¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fan¹
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ¹huen

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hun
    • Wade–Giles: hun¹
    • Yale: hwūn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huen
    • Palladius: хунь (xunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fan¹
    • Yale: fān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐn⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ¹huen
    • MiniDict: huen^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹hun
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /huən⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: xwon

Rime
Character	閽
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	呼昆切
Baxter	xwon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/huən/
Pan Wuyun	/huon/
Shao Rongfen	/xuən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hwən/
Li Rong	/xuən/
Wang Li	/xuən/
Bernard Karlgren	/xuən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hūn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fan1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*hmɯːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	閽
Reading #	1/1
No.	5531
Phonetic component	昏
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	昏
Old Chinese	/*hmɯːn/

Definitions

閽

1. (literary) gatekeeper
2. (literary) to guard the gate
3. (literary) palace gate

Compounds

• 九閽／九阍
• 叩閽／叩阍
• 天閽／天阍
• 帝閽／帝阍
• 閽人／阍人 (hūnrén)
• 閽侍／阍侍
• 閽寺／阍寺
• 閽者／阍者

 

Japanese

Kanji

閽

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. gatekeeper
2. gate, door

Readings

• On (unclassified): こん (kon)
• Kun: もんばん (monban)

Korean

Hanja

閽 • (hon) (hangeul 혼, revised hon, McCune–Reischauer hon, Yale hon)

1. gatekeeper
2. gate, door