渙

See also: 涣

Translingual

Han character

渙 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水弓月大 (ENBK), four-corner 3713₄, composition ⿰氵奐)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 633, character 40
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17757
• Dae Jaweon: page 1039, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 3, page 1683, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6E19

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Chinese

trad.		渙
simp.		涣

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
渙	*qʰʷaːds, *qʰʷaːns
瘓	*tqʰʷaːnʔ
喚	*qʰʷaːns
煥	*qʰʷaːns
奐	*qʰʷaːns
寏	*ɢʷaːn
換	*ɢʷaːns

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huàn (huan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wun⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hoàn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huàn
    • Wade–Giles: huan⁴
    • Yale: hwàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huann
    • Palladius: хуань (xuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯än⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wun⁶
    • Yale: wuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wun⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: wun⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuːn²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoàn
    • Tâi-lô: huàn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoaxn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /huan²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /huan⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /huan²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /huan¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /huan²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: xwajH, xwanH

Rime
Character	渙	渙
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	泰 (26)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	呼會切	火貫切
Baxter	xwajH	xwanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/huɑiH/	/huɑnH/
Pan Wuyun	/hʷɑiH/	/hʷɑnH/
Shao Rongfen	/xuɑiH/	/xuɑnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hwajH/	/hwanH/
Li Rong	/xuɑiH/	/xuɑnH/
Wang Li	/xuɑiH/	/xuɑnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/xuɑiH/	/xuɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huì	huàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fui3	fun3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʷʰˤa[n]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰʷaːds/, /*qʰʷaːns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	渙
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	huàn
Middle Chinese	‹ xwanH ›
Old Chinese	/*qʷʰˁa[n]-s/
English	amply-flowing
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	渙	渙
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	5353	5357
Phonetic component	奐	奐
Rime group	祭	元
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	𧬨	喚
Old Chinese	/*qʰʷaːds/	/*qʰʷaːns/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 渙

1. to dissipate; to dissolve
2. (literary) to issue imperial edicts
3. (literary) overflowing; brimming
4. 59th hexagram of the I Ching

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Japanese

Kanji

渙

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. scatter

Readings

• Go-on: かん (kan)
• Kan-on: かん (kan)
• Kun: あきらか (akiraka, 渙らか); きよし (kiyoshi)

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Korean

Hanja

渙 (eum 환 (hwan))

1. scatter
2. scattered, dispersed

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Vietnamese

Han character

渙: Hán Nôm readings: hoán

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References

• Nom Foundation