喚

See also: 唤

喚 U+559A, 喚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-559A ← 喙 [U+5599] CJK Unified Ideographs 喛 → [U+559B]

Translingual

Han character

喚 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口弓月大 (RNBK), four-corner 6703₄, composition ⿰口奐)

1. call, summon
2. invite
3. be called

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 199, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3953
• Dae Jaweon: page 420, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 1, page 658, character 6
• Unihan data for U+559A

Chinese

trad.		喚
simp.		唤

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 喚
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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): semantic 口 + phonetic 奐 (OC *qʰʷaːns).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): huàn (huan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄢˋ

  (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): хуан (huan, III)

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wun⁶
• Eastern Min (BUC): huáng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): huang⁴ / huong⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hoàn

  (Teochew, Peng'im): huang³ / huêng³

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵huoe

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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/
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic and Wiktionary: хуан (huan, III)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xuæ̃⁴⁴/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wun⁶
    • Yale: wuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wun⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: wun⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuːn²²/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: huáng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huɑŋ²¹³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: huang⁴
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: hua̍ng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huaŋ⁴²/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: huong⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huoŋ⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Jinjiang, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoàn
    • Tâi-lô: huàn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoaxn
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /huan⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /huan²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /huan¹¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: huang³ / huêng³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: huàng / huèng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huaŋ²¹³/, /hueŋ²¹³/

Note: huêng3 - Chaozhou.

• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵huoe
    • MiniDict: huoe^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²huoe
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /huø³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: xwanH

Rime
Character	喚
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	喚
Reading #	1/1
No.	5355
Phonetic component	奐
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	喚
Old Chinese	/*qʰʷaːns/

Definitions

喚

1. to call; to summon

Synonyms

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• 叫喚 / 叫唤 (jiàohuàn)
• 叫喊 (jiàohǎn)
• 叫嚷 (jiàorǎng)
• 叫囂 / 叫嚣 (jiàoxiāo) (derogatory)
• 吆喝 (colloquial)
• 吶喊 / 呐喊 (nàhǎn)
• 呼喊 (hūhǎn)
• 喧叫 (xuānjiào)
• 喊叫 (hǎnjiào)
• 喝唿 (Hokkien)
• 喊喝 (Hokkien)
• 喊嘩 / 喊哗 (Hokkien)
• 嗝 (ke̍h) (Hokkien)
• 嘶叫 (sījiào)
• 嚷嚷 (colloquial)
• 打呵喝 (da³ o⁴ ho) (Xiang)
• 高呼 (gāohū) (to shout loudly)

Compounds

• 三請四喚 / 三请四唤
• 不聽使喚 / 不听使唤
• 使喚 / 使唤 (shǐhuàn)
• 傳喚 / 传唤 (chuánhuàn)
• 勾喚 / 勾唤
• 千呼萬喚 / 千呼万唤 (qiānhūwànhuàn)
• 千喚萬喚 / 千唤万唤
• 召喚 / 召唤 (zhàohuàn)
• 叫喚 / 叫唤 (jiàohuàn)
• 呼兄喚弟 / 呼兄唤弟
• 呼喚 / 呼唤 (hūhuàn)
• 呼張喚李 / 呼张唤李
• 呼風喚雨 / 呼风唤雨 (hūfēnghuànyǔ)
• 喚作 / 唤作
• 喚做 / 唤做
• 喚問 / 唤问
• 喚禮 / 唤礼 (huànlǐ)
• 喚禮員 / 唤礼员
• 喚起 / 唤起 (huànqǐ)
• 喚醒 / 唤醒 (huànxǐng)
• 喚雨 / 唤雨
• 喚頭 / 唤头
• 打喚 / 打唤
• 招喚 / 招唤
• 相喚 / 相唤
• 聲喚 / 声唤
• 請喚 / 请唤
• 顧喚 / 顾唤
• 高喚 / 高唤

References

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

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 喚

喚

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)
• Kun: よぶ (yobu, 喚ぶ)、わめく (wameku, 喚く)
• Nanori: よぶ (yobu)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
喚
かん Grade: S
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 喚 (MC xwanH).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kã̠ɴ]

Affix

喚(かん) • (kan) ^{←くわん (kwan)?}

1. to shout; to cry
2. to call; to summon

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 喚 (MC xwanH).

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

喚

喚 (eumhun 부를 환 (bureul hwan))

1. hanja form^? of 환 (“call”)

Compounds

• 규환 (叫喚, gyuhwan)
• 규환지옥 (叫喚地獄, gyuhwanjiok)
• 소환 (召喚, sohwan)
• 환기 (喚起, hwan'gi)
• 환성 (喚聲, hwanseong)
• 환호 (喚呼, hwanho)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

喚: Hán Nôm readings: hoán

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