雈

See also: 萑

雈 U+96C8, 雈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96C8 ← 雇 [U+96C7] CJK Unified Ideographs 雉 → [U+96C9]

Translingual

Han character

雈 (Kangxi radical 172, 隹+4, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿人土 (TOG) or 難難廿人土 (XXTOG), four-corner 4421₄, composition ⿱⻀隹)

Usage notes

This character contains the ram's horn component (⻀) and is not to be confused with 萑 (U+8411) which contains the grass radical (艹).

Derived characters

• 舊, 雚, 𧂴
• 𠿅, 𨞂 (Exception: Only for Taiwan character form. Mainland China character form contains 萑 instead)
• 蒦 (Found in its derived characters used in Taiwan and Hong Kong)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1365, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41980
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4092, character 9
• Unihan data for U+96C8

Chinese

simp. and trad.		雈
alternative forms		萑 corrupted form

Glyph origin

Pictogram (象形). Compare 雚.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huán (huan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wun⁴

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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/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: wun⁴
    • Yale: wùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wun⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: wun⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuːn²¹/

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• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ɢʷˤar/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡoːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	雈
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	huán
Middle Chinese	‹ hwan ›
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷˁar/
English	a kind of owl
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	雈
Reading #	1/1
No.	5351
Phonetic component	雈
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	桓
Old Chinese	/*ɡoːn/

Etymology 1

Definitions

雈

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) type of owl

Etymology 2

Borrowed for another homophonous word; compare 管 (guǎn) (pipe).

Alternative forms

• 𦻃

Definitions

雈

1. reed

Compounds

• 雈葦 / 雈苇

Etymology 3

Definitions

雈

1. only used in 雈蘭／雈兰

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B05566

Japanese

Kanji

雈

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): かん (kan)、がん (gan)
• Kun: みみずく (mimizuku)