曛

曛 U+66DB, 曛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-66DB ← 曚 [U+66DA] CJK Unified Ideographs 曜 → [U+66DC]

Translingual

Han character

曛 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+14, 18 strokes, cangjie input 日竹土火 (AHGF), four-corner 6203₁, composition ⿰日熏)

1. twilight
2. sunset

Derived characters

• 𬟝

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 501, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14224
• Dae Jaweon: page 871, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1539, character 14
• Unihan data for U+66DB

Chinese

simp. and trad.		曛
alternative forms		纁／𫄸

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
櫄	*tqʰun
薰	*qʰun, *qʰuns
曛	*qʰun
勲	*qʰun
熏	*qʰun
燻	*qʰun
獯	*qʰun
纁	*qʰun
醺	*qʰun
臐	*qʰun, *qʰuns
爋	*qʰuns

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xūn (xun¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fan¹
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hong¹ / huong¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syun
    • Wade–Giles: hsün¹
    • Yale: syūn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiun
    • Palladius: сюнь (sjunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕyn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fan¹
    • Yale: fān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐn⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: hong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔŋ⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: huong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huoŋ⁵³³/

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• Middle Chinese: xjun

Rime
Character	曛
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	文 (59)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	許云切
Baxter	xjun
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hɨun/
Pan Wuyun	/hiun/
Shao Rongfen	/xiuən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hun/
Li Rong	/xiuən/
Wang Li	/xĭuən/
Bernard Karlgren	/xi̯uən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xūn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fan1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰun/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	曛
Reading #	1/1
No.	14108
Phonetic component	熏
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	薰
Old Chinese	/*qʰun/

Definitions

曛

1. (literary) twilight; dusk
2. (literary) glow of the setting sun

Compounds

• 夕曛
• 曛黃／曛黄
• 曛黑

 

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “曛”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 271.

Japanese

Kanji

曛

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. twilight
2. sunset

Readings

• On (unclassified): くん (kun)
• Kun: たそがれ (tasogare)

Korean

Hanja

曛 • (hun) (hangeul 훈, revised hun, McCune–Reischauer hun, Yale hwun)

1. dusk
2. twilight
3. sunset

Vietnamese

Han character

曛: Hán Nôm readings: huân

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