暄

暄 U+6684, 暄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6684 ← 暃 [U+6683] CJK Unified Ideographs 暅 → [U+6685]

Translingual

Han character

暄 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 日十一一 (AJMM), four-corner 6301₆, composition ⿰日宣)

1. warm, comfortable
2. warm, genial

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 497, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14033
• Dae Jaweon: page 865, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1526, character 9
• Unihan data for U+6684

Chinese

simp. and trad.		暄
alternative forms		煊 煖／暖

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
烜	*qʰrolʔ, *qʰonʔ
貆	*qʰoːn, *ɡoːn, *qʰon
峘	*ɡoːn, *ɡɯːŋ
狟	*ɡoːn
絙	*ɡoːn, *kɯːŋ
荁	*ɡoːn
宣	*sqʰon
咺	*qʰonʔ
暅	*qʰonʔ
桓	*ɡʷaːn
洹	*ɡʷaːn, *ɢʷan
揎	*sqʰʷan
愃	*sqʰʷan, *qʰʷanʔ
瑄	*sqʰʷan
渲	*sqʰʷans
喧	*qʰʷan
萱	*qʰʷan
暄	*qʰʷan
諠	*qʰʷan
翧	*qʰʷan
蝖	*qʰʷan
垣	*ɢʷan
楦	*qʰʷans

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰʷan) : semantic 日 (“sun”) + phonetic 宣 (OC *sqʰon).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xuān (xuan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hyun¹
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): soeng¹ / syeng¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xuān
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syuan
    • Wade–Giles: hsüan¹
    • Yale: sywān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiuan
    • Palladius: сюань (sjuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hyun¹
    • Yale: hyūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hyn¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hün¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hyːn⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: soeng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬœŋ⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: syeng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬyøŋ⁵³³/

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• Middle Chinese: xjwon

Rime
Character	暄
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	元 (66)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	況袁切
Baxter	xjwon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hʉɐn/
Pan Wuyun	/hʷiɐn/
Shao Rongfen	/xiuɐn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/huan/
Li Rong	/xiuɐn/
Wang Li	/xĭwɐn/
Bernard Karlgren	/xi̯wɐn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xuān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hyun1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰʷan/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	暄
Reading #	1/1
No.	14012
Phonetic component	亘
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	暄
Old Chinese	/*qʰʷan/
Notes	集韻同煖見素問

Definitions

暄

1. (of sunshine) warm; genial; comfortable
2. (dialect) soft; loose

Compounds

• 寒暄 (hánxuān)
• 寒暄書／寒暄书
• 暄和
• 暄妍 (xuānyán)
• 暄暖
• 暄涼／暄凉
• 暄藤
• 暄風／暄风
• 負日之暄／负日之暄
• 負暄／负暄

 

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “暄”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 269.

Japanese

Kanji

暄

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: こん (kon)
• Kan-on: けん (ken)
• Kun: あたたかい (atatakai, 暄い)

Korean

Hanja

暄 (eum 훤 (hwon))

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Vietnamese

Han character

暄: Hán Nôm readings: huyên

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