亘

See also: 亙

Translingual

Han character

亘 (Kangxi radical 7, 二+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 一日一 (MAM), four-corner 1010₆, composition ⿱一旦 or ⿱𣄼一)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 87, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 262
• Dae Jaweon: page 183, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 17, character 16
• Unihan data for U+4E98

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Chinese

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		亘
alternative forms		𠄢

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 亘
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Originally 𠄢: Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 二 + 囘.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xuān (xuan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄢ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xuān
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syuan
    • Wade–Giles: hsüan¹
    • Yale: sywān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiuan
    • Palladius: сюань (sjuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy̯ɛn⁵⁵/

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• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷˤar/, /*s-[q]ʷar/, /*swar/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	亘	亘	亘
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	huán	xuān	xuān
Middle Chinese	‹ hwan ›	‹ sjwen ›	‹ sjwen ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ʷˁar/	/*s-[q]ʷar/	/*swar/ (< *s-[q]ʷar)
English	turn around, turn back	turn around	阿會亘 ēhuìxuān: Skt. ābhāsvara ‘shining’ (E. Hàn)
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.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 亘

1. to revolve around

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 亘 – see 亙 (“to extend all the way; to stretch; continuous; complete; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 亙).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 亘 – see 桓 (“Chinese soapberry; pillar used as a signpost; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 桓).

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Japanese

Kanji

亘

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. span
2. request

Readings

• Go-on: せん (sen)、がん (gan)^{←ぐわん (gwan, historical)}
• Kan-on: せん (sen)、かん (kan)^{←くわん (kwan, historical)}
• Kun: めぐる (meguru, 亘る)、もとめる (motomeru, 亘める)
• Nanori: せん (sen)、のぶ (nobu)

As an alternative form of 亙:

• Go-on: こう (kō)
• Kan-on: こう (kō)
• Kun: わたる (wataru, 亘る)
• Nanori: とおる (tōru)、わたり (watari)、ひろし (hiroshi)

Compounds

• 亘古(こうこ) (kōko): forever, from ancient times.
• 連亘(れんこう) (renkō): extending in a row

Proper noun

亘(わたる) • (Wataru) 

1. a male given name

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Korean

Hanja

亘 • (seon, hwan) (hangeul 선, 환, revised seon, hwan, McCune–Reischauer sŏn, hwan)

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