渙

渙

See also: 涣

渙 U+6E19, 渙 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6E19 ← 渘 [U+6E18] CJK Unified Ideographs 渚 → [U+6E1A]

Translingual

Han character

渙 (radical 85, 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水弓月大 (ENBK), four-corner 3713₄, composition ⿰氵奐)

1. scatter
2. scattered, dispersed
3. 59th hexagram of the I Ching

References

• KangXi: page 633, character 40
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17757
• Dae Jaweon: page 1039, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 3, page 1683, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6E19

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Chinese

trad.		渙
simp.		涣

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huàn (huan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wun⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): hoàn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: huàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄢˋ
    • Wade–Giles: huan⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huann
    • IPA ^(key): /xu̯a̠n⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: wun⁶
    • Yale: wuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wun⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: wun⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /wuːn²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoàn
    • Tâi-lô: huàn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoaxn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /huan²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /huan⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /huan²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /huan¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /huan²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /huɑi^H/, /huɑn^H/▼

Rime
Character	渙	渙
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	泰 (26)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	呼會切	火貫切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/huɑiH/	/huɑnH/
Pan Wuyun	/hʷɑiH/	/hʷɑnH/
Shao Rongfen	/xuɑiH/	/xuɑnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hwajH/	/hwanH/
Li Rong	/xuɑiH/	/xuɑnH/
Wang Li	/xuɑiH/	/xuɑnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/xuɑiH/	/xuɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huì	huàn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʷʰˤa[n]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰʷaːds/, /*qʰʷaːns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	渙
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	huàn
Middle Chinese	‹ xwanH ›
Old Chinese	/*qʷʰˁa[n]-s/
English	amply-flowing
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	渙	渙
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	5353	5357
Phonetic component	奐	奐
Rime group	祭	元
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	𧬨	喚
Old Chinese	/*qʰʷaːds/	/*qʰʷaːns/

Definitions

渙

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Compounds

人心渙散／人心涣散 人心渙漓／人心涣漓 判渙／判涣 叛渙／叛涣 泮渙／泮涣

渙乎／涣乎 渙散／涣散 (huànsàn) 渙汗／涣汗 渙渙／涣涣

渙然／涣然 渙然冰釋／涣然冰释 王之渙／王之涣 精神渙散／精神涣散

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Japanese

Kanji

渙

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. scatter

Readings

• Go-on: かん (kan)
• Kan-on: かん (kan)
• Kun: あきらか (akiraka, 渙らか); きよし (kiyoshi)

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Korean

Hanja

渙 (eum 환 (hwan))

1. scatter
2. scattered, dispersed

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Vietnamese

Han character

渙: Hán Nôm readings: hoán

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References

• Nom Foundation