爨

爨 U+7228, 爨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7228 ← 爧 [U+7227] CJK Unified Ideographs 爩 → [U+7229]

爨 U+2F920, 爨 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F920 ← 𤎫 [U+2F91F] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 爵 → [U+2F921]

Translingual

Han character

爨 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+25, 29 strokes, cangjie input 竹月木木火 (HBDDF), four-corner 7780₉, composition ⿱⿱⿴𦥑同冖⿳林大火(GHK) or ⿱⿱⿴𦥑⿵冂〒冖⿳林大火(T) or ⿱⿱⿴𦥑⿵冂⿱一コ冖⿳林大火(J))

1. oven, cooking stove
2. cook

Derived characters

• 𣡿, 𥎤, 𥎥, 𩎑

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 688, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19648
• Dae Jaweon: page 1101, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2251, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7228

• Unihan data for U+2F920

Chinese

trad.		爨
simp. #		爨
alternative forms		𤏷 𤑖 熶

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cuàn (cuan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun³
• Eastern Min (BUC): chuáng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): cuang⁴ / cuong⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhoàn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cuàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cuàn
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻuan⁴
    • Yale: tswàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuann
    • Palladius: цуань (cuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu̯än⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: cyun³
    • Yale: chyun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn³
    • Guangdong Romanization: qun³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰyːn³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: chuáng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰuɑŋ²¹³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: cuang⁴
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: chua̍ng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰuaŋ⁴²/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: cuong⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰuoŋ⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhoàn
    • Tâi-lô: tshuàn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhoaxn
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰuan⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰuan²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: tshwanH, tshwan

Rime
Character	爨	爨
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	清 (14)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	七亂切	七丸切
Baxter	tshwanH	tshwan
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰuɑnH/	/t͡sʰuɑn/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰʷɑnH/	/t͡sʰʷɑn/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰuɑnH/	/t͡sʰuɑn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰwanH/	/t͡sʰwan/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰuɑnH/	/t͡sʰuɑn/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰuɑnH/	/t͡sʰuɑn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡sʰuɑnH/	/t͡sʰuɑn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cuàn	cuān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cyun3	cyun1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰoːn/, /*sʰoːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	爨	爨
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	1873	1874
Phonetic component	爨	爨
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime		竄
Old Chinese	/*sʰoːn/	/*sʰoːns/
Notes	見周禮

Definitions

爨

1. to cook
2. cooker; cookstove
3. a surname
4. Short for 爨體／爨体 (“a style of calligraphy popular in 3rd-4th century AD, considered transitional in the development from clerical script to regular script”).

Compounds

• 五花爨弄
• 分爨 (fēncuàn)
• 另起煙爨 / 另起烟爨
• 同居各爨
• 同爨
• 執爨 / 执爨
• 析爨
• 析骨以爨
• 析骸以爨 (xīháiyǐcuàn)
• 樵蘇不爨 / 樵苏不爨
• 炊爨 (chuīcuàn)
• 炊金爨玉
• 炊骨爨骸
• 煙爨 / 烟爨
• 爨下
• 爨婦 / 爨妇
• 爨婢 (cuànbì)
• 爨室 (cuànshì)
• 爨寶子碑 / 爨宝子碑
• 爨底下 (Cuàndǐxià)
• 爨桂炊玉
• 爨體 / 爨体
• 爨龍顏碑 / 爨龙颜碑
• 異爨 / 异爨
• 稱柴而爨 / 称柴而爨
• 稱薪而爨 / 称薪而爨
• 踏爨
• 蹈爨

References

• “爨”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “爨”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 41.

Japanese

Kanji

爨

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. boil, cook

Readings

• Go-on: さん (san)
• Kan-on: さん (san)
• Kun: かしぐ (kashigu, 爨ぐ)、かまど (kamado, 爨)

Compounds

• 御爨(おさん) (osan)
• 炊爨(すいさん) (suisan)

Korean

Hanja

爨 (eumhun 부뚜막 찬 (buttumak chan))

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Vietnamese

Han character

爨: Hán Nôm readings: thoán

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