湍

湍 U+6E4D, 湍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6E4D ← 湌 [U+6E4C] CJK Unified Ideographs 湎 → [U+6E4E]

Translingual

Han character

湍 (radical 85 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水山一月 (EUMB), four-corner 3212₇, composition ⿰氵耑)

1. rapid water current, rapids

References

• KangXi: page 636, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17825
• Dae Jaweon: page 1043, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1677, character 10
• Unihan data for U+6E4D

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		湍

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 湍
Large seal script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (耑) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
揣	toːlʔ, *sʰrolʔ
褍	toːlʔ, *toːn
惴	tjols
圌	djol, *djon
篅	djol, *djon
瑞	djols
端	toːn
剬	toːn, *tjonʔ
偳	toːn, *tʰoːn
鍴	toːn
耑	toːn
踹	toːns, *djonʔ
湍	tʰoːn, *tjon
煓	tʰoːn
貒	tʰoːn, *tʰoːns
諯	stʰons, *tjon, *tʰjons, *djon
顓	tjon
喘	tʰjonʔ
遄	djon
輲	djon
椯	djon
歂	djon, *djonʔ
腨	djonʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tuān (tuan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): teon¹, tyun¹, zyun², cyun²
• Min Nan (POJ): chhoan / thoan

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: tuān
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄢ
    • Wade-Giles: t'uan¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tuan
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰu̯a̠n⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: teon¹, tyun¹, zyun², cyun²
    • Yale: tēun, tyūn, jyún, chyún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: toen¹, tyn¹, dzyn², tsyn²
    • Guangdong Romanization: tên¹, tün¹, jun², qun²
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰɵn⁵⁵/, /tʰyːn⁵⁵/, /t͡ɕyːn³⁵/, /t͡ɕʰyːn³⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhoan / thoan
    • Tâi-lô: tshuan / thuan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhoafn, toafn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰuan⁴⁴/, /tʰuan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰuan³³/, /tʰuan³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰuan⁴⁴/, /tʰuan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰuan⁴⁴/, /tʰuan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰuan⁴⁴/, /tʰuan⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /tʰuɑn/, /t͡ɕiuᴇn/▼

Rime
Character	湍	湍
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	透 (6)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)	仙 (78)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	他端切	職緣切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰuɑn/	/t͡ɕiuᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰʷɑn/	/t͡ɕʷiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰuɑn/	/t͡ɕjuæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰwan/	/cwian/
Li Rong	/tʰuɑn/	/t͡ɕiuɛn/
Wang Li	/tʰuɑn/	/t͡ɕĭwɛn/
Bernard Karlgren	/tʰuɑn/	/t͡ɕi̯wɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tuān	zhuān

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*tʰˤor/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰoːn/, /*tjon/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	湍
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tuān
Middle Chinese	‹ thwan ›
Old Chinese	/*tʰˤor/
English	rushing water
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	湍	湍
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	2507	2515
Phonetic component	耑	耑
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	湍	專
Old Chinese	/*tʰoːn/	/*tjon/

Definitions

湍

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Compounds

• 急湍
• 涌湍
• 湍急

• 湍水
• 湍流 (tuānliú)
• 湍瀨／湍濑

• 飛湍／飞湍
• 驚湍／惊湍

References

• (Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)

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Japanese

Kanji

湍

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): たん (tan)
• Kun: はやせ (hayase), はやい (hayai)

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Korean

Hanja

湍 • (dan) (hangeul 단, revised dan, McCune-Reischauer tan, Yale tan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: suyền, đoan

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References

• Nom Foundation