暈

See also: 晕

暈 U+6688, 暈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6688 ← 暇 [U+6687] CJK Unified Ideographs 暉 → [U+6689]

暈 U+F9C5, 暈 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9C5 ← 龍 [U+F9C4] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 阮 → [U+F9C6]

Translingual

Han character

暈 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 日月十十 (ABJJ) or 難日月十十 (XABJJ), four-corner 6050₆, composition ⿱日軍)

Derived characters

• 𣜸 𥣐 𦅿 𠪷 𦾥

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 497, character 37
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14037
• Dae Jaweon: page 865, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1527, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6688

• Unihan data for U+F9C5

Chinese

trad.		暈
simp.		晕
alternative forms		煇

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 暈
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
揮	*qʰul
輝	*qʰul
翬	*qʰul
暉	*qʰul
煇	*qʰul, *ɡuːn, *ɡuːnʔ
楎	*qʰul, *ɡuːn
瀈	*qʰul
韗	*qʰons, *ɢuns
褌	*kuːn
鶤	*kuːn, *ɢuns
緷	*kuːnʔ, *ɡuːnʔ, *ɢuns
睴	*kuːns, *ɡuːnʔ
璭	*kuːns
瘒	*ŋɡuːn
顐	*ŋɡuːn, *ŋɡuːns, *ɡuːn
諢	*ŋɡuːns
餫	*ɡuːn, *ɢuns
渾	*ɡuːn, *ɡuːnʔ
琿	*ɡuːn
鼲	*ɡuːn
堚	*ɡuːn
鯶	*ɡuːnʔ
軍	*kun
皸	*kun, *kuns
齳	*ŋɡunʔ
喗	*ŋɡunʔ
葷	*qʰun
惲	*qunʔ
賱	*qunʔ
運	*ɢuns
暈	*ɢuns
鄆	*ɢuns

Originally a pictogram (象形) – the sun (日) surrounded by lines on all sides – halo.

Now phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɢuns): semantic 日 (“Sun”) + phonetic 軍 (OC *kun).

Etymology

Same word as 運 (OC *ɢuns, “to revolve; to move”) (Schuessler, 2007). See there for more.

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yùn (yun⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wan⁶
• Eastern Min (BUC): uông
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): ūn / hūn / n̄g

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ing⁷ / êng⁷

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yùn
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yùn
    • Wade–Giles: yün⁴
    • Yale: yùn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yunn
    • Palladius: юнь (junʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /yn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wan⁶
    • Yale: wahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wan⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: wen⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐn²²/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: uông
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /uɔŋ²⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ūn
    • Tâi-lô: ūn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: un
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /un⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /un³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /un²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hūn
    • Tâi-lô: hūn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hun
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hun⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hun³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hun²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: n̄g
    • Tâi-lô: n̄g
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ŋ̍²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ŋ̍³³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ŋ̍⁴¹/

Note:

• ūn - literary;
• hūn, n̄g - vernacular.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ing⁷ / êng⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: īng / ēng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iŋ¹¹/, /eŋ¹¹/

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• Middle Chinese: hjunH

Rime
Character	暈
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	文 (59)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	王問切
Baxter	hjunH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɨunH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦiunH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiuənH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦunH/
Li Rong	/ɣiuənH/
Wang Li	/ɣĭuənH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯uənH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yùn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wan6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɢuns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	暈
Reading #	1/1
No.	7342
Phonetic component	軍
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	運
Old Chinese	/*ɢuns/
Notes	見史記

Definitions

暈

1. (astronomy) halo (around the Sun or the Moon)

   日暈／日晕  ―  rìyùn  ―  solar halo

2. ring of light or colour, or a blurred area surrounding a luminous or coloured object; halo around a light or colour
3. blush; slight redness
4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) ring-shaped pattern
5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) bull's eye
6. to spread; to proliferate; to seep through
7. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to apply (colour, especially makeup)

Compounds

• 乳暈 / 乳晕 (rǔyùn)
• 光暈 / 光晕 (guāngyùn)
• 山暈 / 山晕
• 微暈 / 微晕
• 日暈 / 日晕 (rìyùn)
• 星系暈 / 星系晕 (xīngxìyùn)
• 暈珥 / 晕珥
• 月暈 / 月晕
• 月暈效應 / 月晕效应
• 月暈而風 / 月晕而风
• 環暈 / 环晕
• 眼暈 / 眼晕
• 紅暈 / 红晕 (hóngyùn)
• 血暈 / 血晕
• 酒暈 / 酒晕
• 墨暈 / 墨晕

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): yùn, yūn

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄣˋ, ㄩㄣ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): yun¹

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): wan⁴

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): vun³

• Gan (Wiktionary): yn⁵
• Jin (Wiktionary): yng¹
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): ing⁷ / êng⁷

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yùn
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yùn
    • Wade–Giles: yün⁴
    • Yale: yùn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yunn
    • Palladius: юнь (junʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /yn⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan; variant in Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yun
    • Wade–Giles: yün¹
    • Yale: yūn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iun
    • Palladius: юнь (junʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /yn⁵⁵/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: yun¹
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: wen
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /yn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wan⁴
    • Yale: wàhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: wen⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐn²¹/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: vun³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /vun²²/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: yn⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /yn¹¹/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: yng¹
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /yŋ¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ing⁷ / êng⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: īng / ēng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iŋ¹¹/, /eŋ¹¹/

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• Middle Chinese: hjunH

Rime
Character	暈
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	文 (59)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	王問切
Baxter	hjunH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɨunH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦiunH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiuənH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦunH/
Li Rong	/ɣiuənH/
Wang Li	/ɣĭuənH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯uənH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yùn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wan6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɢuns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	暈
Reading #	1/1
No.	7342
Phonetic component	軍
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	運
Old Chinese	/*ɢuns/
Notes	見史記

Definitions

暈

1. to make one feel dizzy; to feel the head spinning; to have vertigo

Compounds

• 倒暈妝 / 倒晕妆
• 暈機 / 晕机 (yùnjī)
• 暈池 / 晕池
• 暈臺 / 晕台
• 暈船 / 晕船 (yùnchuán)
• 暈車 / 晕车 (yùnchē)
• 暈針 / 晕针 (yūnzhēn)
• 暈高兒 / 晕高儿
• 檀暈妝 / 檀晕妆
• 眩暈 / 眩晕
• 血暈 / 血晕
• 頭昏眼暈 / 头昏眼晕

Pronunciation 3

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): yūn (yun¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄣ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): yun¹

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): wan⁴

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): vun³

• Gan (Wiktionary): yn¹
• Jin (Wiktionary): yng¹
• Northern Min (KCR): ē̤ng
• Eastern Min (BUC): hùng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): ūn / hūn / n̄g

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hung¹

• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): yn¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yun
    • Wade–Giles: yün¹
    • Yale: yūn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iun
    • Palladius: юнь (junʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /yn⁵⁵/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: yun¹
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: wen
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /yn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wan⁴
    • Yale: wàhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: wen⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐn²¹/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: vun³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /vun²²/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: yn¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /yn⁴²/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: yng¹
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /yŋ¹¹/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: ē̤ng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /œyŋ⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: hùng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huŋ⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ūn
    • Tâi-lô: ūn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: un
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /un⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /un³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /un²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hūn
    • Tâi-lô: hūn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hun
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hun⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hun³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hun²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: n̄g
    • Tâi-lô: n̄g
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ŋ̍²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ŋ̍³³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ŋ̍⁴¹/

Note:

• ūn - literary;
• hūn, n̄g - vernacular.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hung¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hung
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huŋ³³/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: yn¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /yn³³/

Definitions

暈

1. dizzy; giddy; lightheaded
2. to faint; to pass out; to black out; to swoon

   暈咗幾分鐘／晕咗几分钟 [Cantonese]  ―  wan⁴ zo² gei² fan¹ zung¹ [Jyutping]  ―  fainted for several minutes

3. (neologism, slang) to be overwhelmed (by something) and on the verge of passing out

   我暈！／我晕！  ―  Wǒ yūn!  ―  Oh my! [lit. I('m about to) faint.]

4. (Sichuanese) to savour; to enjoy slowly and thoroughly
5. (Cantonese, disapproving) extremely (used with the particle 到)

   貴到暈／贵到晕 [Cantonese]  ―  gwai³ dou³ wan⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  extremely expensive

   細到暈／细到晕 [Cantonese]  ―  sai³ dou³ wan⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  extremely small

Synonyms

• (dizzy):

Dialectal synonyms of 暈 (“dizzy; giddy”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		暈
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	暈
	Singapore	暈
Cantonese	Hong Kong	暈
	Singapore (Guangfu)	暈
Southern Min	Xiamen	眩
	Quanzhou	眩
	Zhangzhou	眩
	Tainan	眩, 楞
	Penang (Hokkien)	眩
	Singapore (Hokkien)	眩, 楞
	Manila (Hokkien)	眩
	Raoping	眩
	Jieyang	眩, 愩
	Singapore (Teochew)	眩
	Wenchang	眩
	Singapore (Hainanese)	眩

Compounds

• 昏頭暈腦 / 昏头晕脑
• 暈倒 / 晕倒 (yūndǎo)
• 暈厥 / 晕厥 (yūnjué)
• 暈眩 / 晕眩 (yūnxuàn)
• 暈頭 / 晕头
• 暈頭轉向 / 晕头转向 (yūntóuzhuànxiàng)
• 檀暈妝 / 檀晕妆
• 發暈 / 发晕 (fāyūn)
• 頭暈 / 头晕 (tóuyūn)
• 頭暈目眩 / 头晕目眩 (tóuyūnmùxuàn)
• 頭暈眼昏 / 头晕眼昏
• 頭暈眼花 / 头晕眼花 (tóuyūnyǎnhuā)
• 頭暈眼黑 / 头晕眼黑

References

• “暈”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–