鬟

鬟 U+9B1F, 鬟 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9B1F ← 鬞 [U+9B1E] CJK Unified Ideographs 鬠 → [U+9B20]

Translingual

Han character

鬟 (Kangxi radical 190, 髟+13, 23 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹田中女 (SHWLV), four-corner 7273₂, composition ⿱髟睘)

1. dress hair in coiled knot
2. maid

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1456, character 54
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45596
• Dae Jaweon: page 1988, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4536, character 9
• Unihan data for U+9B1F

Chinese

simp. and trad.		鬟

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 鬟
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): semantic 髟 (“hair”) + phonetic 睘 (OC *ɡʷeŋ)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huán (huan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waan⁴
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): huang² / huong²

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• Mandarin
  • (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: waan⁴
    • Yale: wàahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: wan⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waːn²¹/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: huang²
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: huáng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huaŋ¹³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: huong²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huoŋ²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: hwaen

Rime
Character	鬟
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	刪 (70)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	戸關切
Baxter	hwaen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠuan/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷᵚan/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɐn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwaɨn/
Li Rong	/ɣuan/
Wang Li	/ɣwan/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣwan/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	waan4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷraːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鬟
Reading #	1/1
No.	16232
Phonetic component	睘
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	還
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷraːn/

Definitions

鬟

1. a knot of hair on the head

Compounds

• 上鬟 (shànghuán)
• 丫鬟 (yāhuan)
• 低鬟
• 婭鬟 / 娅鬟
• 小鬟
• 煙鬟 / 烟鬟
• 翠鬟
• 雙鬟 / 双鬟
• 雲鬟 / 云鬟
• 霧鬢風鬟 / 雾鬓风鬟
• 風鬟雨鬢 / 风鬟雨鬓
• 風鬟霧鬢 / 风鬟雾鬓
• 鴉鬟 / 鸦鬟
• 黛鬟

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “鬟”, 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

鬟

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. dress hair in coiled knot, in which Japanese men in Kofun and Asuka period wore their hair.

Readings

• Go-on: げん (gen)
• Kan-on: かん (kan)^{←くわん (kwan, historical)}
• Kun: わげ (wage, 鬟)、みずら (mizura, 鬟)

References

• “^▲鬟”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

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

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