歡

See also: 歓, 驩, and 欢

Translingual

Traditional	歡
Shinjitai	歓
Simplified	欢

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qʰoːn): phonetic 雚 ‎(OC *koːns) + semantic 欠

Han character

歡 (radical 76 欠+18, 22 strokes, cangjie input 廿土弓人 (TGNO), four-corner 4728₂, composition ⿰雚欠)

1. happy, pleased, glad
2. joy
3. to enjoy

References

• KangXi: page 573, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16242
• Dae Jaweon: page 961, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2153, character 17
• Unihan data for U+6B61

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Chinese

trad.		歡
simp.		欢

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huān (huan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fun¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fôn
• Min Nan (POJ): hoaⁿ / hoan

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: huān
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄢ
    • Wade-Giles: huan¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huan
    • IPA ^(key): /xu̯a̠n⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fun¹
    • Yale: fūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fun¹
    • IPA ^(key): /fuːn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fôn
    • Hakka Romanization System: fon´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fon¹
    • IPA: /fon²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoaⁿ / hoan
    • Tâi-lô: huann / huan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hvoaf, hoafn
    • IPA (Taipei): /huã⁴⁴/, /huan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /huã⁴⁴/, /huan⁴⁴/
    • Note: hoaⁿ - vernacular, hoan - literary.

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 歡
Mandarin	Beijing	/xuan⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/xuan⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/xuan²¹/
	Jinan	/xuã²¹³/
	Qingdao	/xuã²¹³/
	Zhengzhou	/xuan²⁴/
	Xi'an	/xuã²¹/
	Xining	/xuã⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/xuan⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/xuɛ̃n³¹/
	Ürümqi	/xuan⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/xuan⁵⁵/
	Chengdu	/xuan⁵⁵/
	Guiyang	/xuan⁵⁵/
	Kunming	/xuã̠⁴⁴/
	Nanjing	/xuaŋ³¹/
	Hefei	/xʊ̃²¹/
Jin	Taiyuan	/xuæ̃¹¹/
	Pingyao	/xuɑŋ¹³/
	Hohhot	/xuæ̃³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/huø⁵³/
	Suzhou	/huø⁵⁵/
	Hangzhou	/huõ³³/
	Wenzhou	/ɕy³³/
Hui	Shexian	/xuɛ³¹/
	Tunxi	/xuːə¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/xõ³³/
	Xiangtan	/hɔn³³/
Gan	Nanchang	/fɵn⁴²/
Hakka	Meixian	/fon⁵/
	Taoyuan	/fon²⁴/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/fun⁵³/
	Nanning	/fun⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/fun⁵⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/huan⁵⁵/ /huã⁵⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/huaŋ⁴⁴/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/xuiŋ⁵⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/huã³³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/huaŋ²³/ /hua²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /huɑn/▼

Rime
Character	歡
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	呼官切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/huɑn/
Pan Wuyun	/hʷɑn/
Shao Rongfen	/xuɑn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hwan/
Li Rong	/xuɑn/
Wang Li	/xuɑn/
Bernard Karlgren	/xuɑn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hān

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*qʷʰˤar/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰoːn/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	歡
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	huān
Middle Chinese	‹ xwan ›
Old Chinese	/*qʷʰˤar/
English	rejoice; joyous
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	歡
Reading #	1/1
No.	4487
Phonetic component	雚
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	歡
Old Chinese	/*qʰoːn/

Definitions

歡

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Compounds

• 歡場／欢场
• 歡呼／欢呼 (huānhū)
• 歡送／欢送 (huānsòng)
• 歡天喜地／欢天喜地 (huāntiān-xǐdì)

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

歡

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 歓)

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Readings

• On: かん (kan)
• Kun: よろこぶ (yorokobu)

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Korean

Hanja

歡 • ‎(hwan) (hangeul 환, revised hwan, McCune-Reischauer hwan, Yale hwan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

歡 (hoan, hoen)

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