瀚

瀚 U+701A, 瀚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-701A ← 瀙 [U+7019] CJK Unified Ideographs 瀛 → [U+701B]

Translingual

Han character

瀚 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+16, 19 strokes, cangjie input 水十十一 (EJJM), four-corner 3812₇, composition ⿰氵翰)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 659, character 48
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18652
• Dae Jaweon: page 1069, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1782, character 1
• Unihan data for U+701A

Chinese

simp. and trad.		瀚

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
乾	*kaːn, *ɡran
漧	*kaːn
倝	*kaːns
榦	*kaːns
韓	*ɡaːn
鶾	*ɡaːn
翰	*ɡaːn, *ɡaːns
瀚	*ɡaːns
螒	*ɡaːns
雗	*ɡaːns
斡	*qʷaːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡaːns): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 翰 (OC *ɡaːn, *ɡaːns)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hàn (han⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hon⁶
• Eastern Min (BUC): hâng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hang⁵
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hān

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hang⁵ / hang⁷

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶ghoe

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hàn
    • Wade–Giles: han⁴
    • Yale: hàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hann
    • Palladius: хань (xanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hon⁶
    • Yale: hohn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hon⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: hon⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔːn²²/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: hâng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɑŋ²⁴²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: hang⁵
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: hāng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /haŋ¹¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: hang⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /haŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hān
    • Tâi-lô: hān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: han
    • IPA (Xiamen): /han²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /han⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /han²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /han³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /han³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hang⁵ / hang⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hâng / hāng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /haŋ⁵⁵/, /haŋ¹¹/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶ghoe
    • MiniDict: ghoe^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³hhoe
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦø²³/

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• Middle Chinese: hanH

Rime
Character	瀚
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	寒 (61)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	侯旰切
Baxter	hanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɑnH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦɑnH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɑnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦanH/
Li Rong	/ɣɑnH/
Wang Li	/ɣɑnH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hon6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡaːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	瀚
Reading #	1/1
No.	3706
Phonetic component	倝
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	翰
Old Chinese	/*ɡaːns/
Notes	見淮南子

Definitions

瀚

1. vast; wide; extensive

Synonyms

• 廣大／广大 (guǎngdà)

Compounds

• 浩瀚 (hàohàn)
• 瀚海 (Hànhǎi)
• 瀚漠
• 瀚瀚

References

• “瀚”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “瀚”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 85.

Japanese

Kanji

瀚

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: がん (gan)
• Kan-on: かん (kan)
• Kun: ひろい (hiroi, 瀚い)、なみ (nami)

Korean

Hanja

瀚 • (han) (hangeul 한, revised han, McCune–Reischauer han, Yale han)

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Vietnamese

Han character

瀚: Hán Nôm readings: hãn, hạn

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