和緩

Chinese

		mix together; peace; harmony mix together; peace; harmony; and; with; union; cap (a poem); respond in singing; soft; warm	slow; sluggish; gradual slow; sluggish; gradual; to postpone
trad. (和緩)		和	緩
simp. (和缓)		和	缓
anagram		緩和／缓和

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): héhuǎn

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ ㄏㄨㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wo⁴ wun⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: héhuǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ ㄏㄨㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: héhuǎn
    • Wade–Giles: ho²-huan³
    • Yale: hé-hwǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: herhoan
    • Palladius: хэхуань (xɛxuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵ xu̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wo⁴ wun⁶
    • Yale: wòh wuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wo⁴ wun⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: wo⁴ wun⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔː²¹ wuːn²²/

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• Middle Chinese: hwa hwanX

Rime
Character	和	緩
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	戈 (95)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	戸戈切	胡管切
Baxter	hwa	hwanX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦuɑ/	/ɦuɑnX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦuɑ/	/ɦʷɑnX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɑ/	/ɣuɑnX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwa/	/ɦwanX/
Li Rong	/ɣuɑ/	/ɣuɑnX/
Wang Li	/ɣuɑ/	/ɣuɑnX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣuɑ/	/ɣuɑnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huó	huàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wo4	wun6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ˤoj  [ɢ]ʷˤa[n]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡoːl  ɢʷaːnʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	和	緩
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hé	huǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ hwa ›	‹ hwanX ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ˁoj/	/*[ɢ]ʷˁa[n]ʔ/
English	harmonious	slack; slow
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	和	緩
Reading #	1/2	1/1
No.	4932	16160
Phonetic component	禾	爰
Rime group	歌	元
Rime subdivision	3	1
Corresponding MC rime	和	緩
Old Chinese	/*ɡoːl/	/*ɢʷaːnʔ/

Adjective

和緩

1. mild; gentle

Verb

和緩

1. to ease up; to relax

Synonyms

• 緩和／缓和 (huǎnhé)
• 舒緩／舒缓 (shūhuǎn)

Proper noun

和緩

1. name of two physicians in the ancient state of Qin: zh:医和 and zh:医缓