轘

轘 U+8F58, 轘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8F58 ← 轗 [U+8F57] CJK Unified Ideographs 轙 → [U+8F59]

Translingual

Han character

轘 (Kangxi radical 159, 車+13, 20 strokes, cangjie input 十十田中女 (JJWLV), four-corner 5603₂, composition ⿰車睘)

1. tear asunder between chariots

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1249, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38551
• Dae Jaweon: page 1728, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3558, character 11
• Unihan data for U+8F58

Chinese

trad.		轘
simp.		𮝹

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 轘
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
癏	*kʷraːn
擐	*kʷraːn, *ɡʷraːns
還	*ɡʷraːn, *sɢʷan
環	*ɡʷraːn
鬟	*ɡʷraːn
寰	*ɡʷraːn, *ɡʷeːns
闤	*ɡʷraːn
糫	*ɡʷraːn
圜	*ɡʷraːn, *ɡʷen
鐶	*ɡʷraːn
轘	*ɡʷraːn, *ɡʷraːns
澴	*ɡʷraːn
繯	*ɡʷraːns, *ɡʷeːnʔ
檈	*sɢʷan, *sɢʷin
儇	*qʰʷen
翾	*qʰʷen
蠉	*qʰʷen, *qʰʷenʔ
嬛	*qʰʷen, *qʷen, *ɡʷeŋ
譞	*qʰʷen
懁	*kʷeːns
獧	*kʷeːns
噮	*qʷeːns
彋	*ɡʷreːŋ, *ɡʷreːŋ
睘	*ɡʷeŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡʷraːn, *ɡʷraːns) : semantic 車 (“carriage”) + phonetic 睘 (OC *ɡʷeŋ)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huàn, huán (huan⁴, huan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄢˋ, ㄏㄨㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waan⁶
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): huang² / huong² / huang⁵ / huong⁵

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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/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huán
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huán
    • Wade–Giles: huan²
    • Yale: hwán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwan
    • Palladius: хуань (xuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯än³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: waan⁶
    • Yale: waahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waan⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: wan⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waːn²²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: huang²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huaŋ¹³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: huong²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huoŋ¹³/
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: huang⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huaŋ²¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: huong⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huoŋ²¹/

Note:

• huang2/huong2 - 轘轅;
• huang5/huong5 - 轘刑.

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• Middle Chinese: hwaen, hwaenH

Rime
Character	轘	轘
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	刪 (70)	刪 (70)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	II	II
Fanqie	戸關切	胡慣切
Baxter	hwaen	hwaenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠuan/	/ɦˠuanH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷᵚan/	/ɦʷᵚanH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɐn/	/ɣuɐnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwaɨn/	/ɦwaɨnH/
Li Rong	/ɣuan/	/ɣuanH/
Wang Li	/ɣwan/	/ɣwanH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣwan/	/ɣwanH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huán	huàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	waan4	waan6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷraːn/, /*ɡʷraːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	轘	轘
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	16238	16241
Phonetic component	睘	睘
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	還	患
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷraːn/	/*ɡʷraːns/

Definitions

轘

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Compounds

• 轘磔／𮝹磔
• 轘轅／𮝹辕

 

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “𮝹”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 93.

Japanese

Kanji

轘

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. tearing someone in two by tying their legs to two carts moving in opposite directions (form of medieval punishment)

Readings

• On (unclassified): かん (kan)、げん (gen)、けん (ken)
• Kun: くるまざき (kurumazaki)

Korean

Hanja

轘 • (hwan) (hangeul 환, revised hwan, McCune–Reischauer hwan, Yale hwan)

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