昏

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		昏
alternative forms		昬

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

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-mun (“dark”). Cognate with 悶 (OC *mɯːns, “bored; depressed”), Tibetan མུན་པ (mun pa, “darkness”), Burmese မှုန် (hmun, “dim; gloomy”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 昏

1. dusk; nightfall; twilight; dark
2. confused; dizzy; dazed; muddled
3. faint; lose consciousness

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

昏

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. dark
2. evening, dusk

Readings

• Go-on: こん (kon)
• Kan-on: こん (kon)
• Kun: くらい (kurai, 昏い); たそがれ (tasogare)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 昏 (hôn, hon)

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