鐶

See also: 镮

鐶 U+9436, 鐶 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9436 ← 鐵 [U+9435] CJK Unified Ideographs 鐷 → [U+9437]

Translingual

Han character

鐶 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+13, 21 strokes, cangjie input 金田中女 (CWLV), four-corner 8613₂, composition ⿰釒睘)

1. metal ring
2. measure of currency

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1324, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40946
• Dae Jaweon: page 1824, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4264, character 2
• Unihan data for U+9436

Chinese

trad.		鐶
simp.		镮

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
癏	*kʷraːn
擐	*kʷraːn, *ɡʷraːns
還	*ɡʷraːn, *sɢʷan
環	*ɡʷraːn
鬟	*ɡʷraːn
寰	*ɡʷraːn, *ɡʷeːns
闤	*ɡʷraːn
糫	*ɡʷraːn
圜	*ɡʷraːn, *ɡʷen
鐶	*ɡʷraːn
轘	*ɡʷraːn, *ɡʷraːns
澴	*ɡʷraːn
繯	*ɡʷraːns, *ɡʷeːnʔ
檈	*sɢʷan, *sɢʷin
儇	*qʰʷen
翾	*qʰʷen
蠉	*qʰʷen, *qʰʷenʔ
嬛	*qʰʷen, *qʷen, *ɡʷeŋ
譞	*qʰʷen
懁	*kʷeːns
獧	*kʷeːns
噮	*qʷeːns
彋	*ɡʷreːŋ, *ɡʷreːŋ
睘	*ɡʷeŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡʷraːn): semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 睘 (OC *ɡʷeŋ)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huán, xuàn (huan², xuan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄢˊ, ㄒㄩㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waan⁴
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): huang² / huong²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huán
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huán
    • Wade–Giles: huan²
    • Yale: hwán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwan
    • Palladius: хуань (xuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯än³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xuàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syuàn
    • Wade–Giles: hsüan⁴
    • Yale: sywàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiuann
    • Palladius: сюань (sjuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: waan⁴
    • Yale: wàahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: wan⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waːn²¹/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: huang²
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: huáng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huaŋ¹³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: huong²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huoŋ²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: hwaen

Rime
Character	鐶
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	刪 (70)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	戸關切
Baxter	hwaen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠuan/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷᵚan/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɐn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwaɨn/
Li Rong	/ɣuan/
Wang Li	/ɣwan/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣwan/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	waan4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷraːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鐶
Reading #	1/1
No.	16237
Phonetic component	睘
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	還
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷraːn/
Notes	見戰國策

Definitions

鐶

1. round metal object with a large hole in the center

Compounds

• 鐶釵 / 镮钗

References

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

鐶

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. ring, link

Readings

• On (unclassified): かん (kan)
• Kun: わ (wa, 鐶)

Korean

Hanja

鐶 • (hwan) (hangeul 환, revised hwan, McCune–Reischauer hwan, Yale hwan)

1. metal ring
2. measure of currency