奐

See also: 奂

奐 U+5950, 奐 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5950 ← 奏 [U+594F] CJK Unified Ideographs 契 → [U+5951]

Translingual

Han character

奐 (Kangxi radical 37, 大+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 弓月大 (NBK), four-corner 2743₀, composition ⿳⺈⿵冂八大(G) or ⿳⺈𠔿大(HT) or ⿳⺈⿵冂儿大(JK))

1. be numerous
2. brilliant
3. a surname

Derived characters

• 𠗫, 喚, 𪣷, 𡞵, 𡺌, 愌, 換, 渙, 𪲰, 煥, 𤚙, 瑍, 𦝝, 𬓋, 𥈉, 𫃴, 𧎑, 𬧸, 𨩉, 𩝆, 𫙪, 𡚥, 寏, 瘓

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 251, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5916
• Dae Jaweon: page 512, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 1, page 539, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5950

Chinese

trad.		奐
simp.		奂
alternative forms		𢍅

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
渙	*qʰʷaːds, *qʰʷaːns
瘓	*tqʰʷaːnʔ
喚	*qʰʷaːns
煥	*qʰʷaːns
奐	*qʰʷaːns
寏	*ɢʷaːn
換	*ɢʷaːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qʰʷaːns) : abbreviated phonetic 夐 (OC *qʰʷeːns, *qʰʷeŋs) + semantic 廾. The upper part indicates both ancient pronunciation and the concept of "eminent" (it contains an eye and a stick in hand representing authority), while the two hands at the bottom of the character (then stylized as 大) convey the meaning of "numerous, copious, abundant" attested on oracle bones. It was also used to represent 換 (OC *ɢʷaːns, “to change; to swap”).

Alternatively ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 穴 (“yurt”) + 廾 (“hands”) a pair of hands opening a yurt door to let in sunlight, hence there could be a potential shift of meaning from "brilliant".

A third interpretation by Xun Zaiguo (徐在國) explains that the character indicates "to steal" or "to take objects from other people's houses", i.e., a yurt from which two hands steal/take something. This interpretation could be linked to "numerous", but it is difficult to link to "brilliant".

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huàn (huan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wun⁶
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): fon

  (Hailu, HRS): fon^ˇ

• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): huang⁴ / huong⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hoàn

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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/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wun⁶
    • Yale: wuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wun⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: wun⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuːn²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fon
    • Hakka Romanization System: fon
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fon⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /fon⁵⁵/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: fon^ˇ
    • Sinological IPA: /fon¹¹/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: huang⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huaŋ⁴²/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: huong⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huoŋ⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoàn
    • Tâi-lô: huàn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoaxn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /huan²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /huan⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /huan²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /huan¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /huan²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: xwanH

Rime
Character	奐
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	火貫切
Baxter	xwanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/huɑnH/
Pan Wuyun	/hʷɑnH/
Shao Rongfen	/xuɑnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hwanH/
Li Rong	/xuɑnH/
Wang Li	/xuɑnH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xuɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fun3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰʷaːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	奐
Reading #	1/1
No.	5358
Phonetic component	奐
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	喚
Old Chinese	/*qʰʷaːns/

Definitions

奐

1. brilliant
2. numerous, copious, abundant

Compounds

• 伴奐 / 伴奂 (pànhuàn)
• 奐奐 / 奂奂
• 奐然 / 奂然
• 奐衍 / 奂衍
• 畔奐 / 畔奂
• 美侖美奐 / 美仑美奂
• 美奐美輪 / 美奂美轮
• 美輪美奐 / 美轮美奂 (měilúnměihuàn)
• 輪奐 / 轮奂

 

References

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

奐

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. clear
2. bright

Readings

• On (unclassified): かん (kan)
• Kun: とりかえる (torikaeru)、おおきい (ōkī)、さかん (sakan)

Korean

Hanja

奐 • (binnal hwan) (hangeul 빛날 환, revised hwan, McCune–Reischauer hwan)

1. be numerous, brilliant

Vietnamese

Han character

奐: Hán Nôm readings: hoán

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