烜

烜

烜 U+70DC, 烜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70DC ← 烛 [U+70DB] CJK Unified Ideographs 烝 → [U+70DD]

Translingual

Han character

烜 (radical 86, 火+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 火一日一 (FMAM), four-corner 9181₆, composition ⿰火亘)

1. light of the sun
2. to dry in the sun

References

• KangXi: page 670, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19018
• Dae Jaweon: page 1080, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2199, character 3
• Unihan data for U+70DC

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		烜

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 烜
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (亘) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
烜	*qʰrolʔ, *qʰonʔ
貆	*qʰoːn, *ɡoːn, *qʰon
峘	*ɡoːn, *ɡɯːŋ
狟	*ɡoːn
絙	*ɡoːn, *kɯːŋ
荁	*ɡoːn
宣	*sqʰon
咺	*qʰonʔ
暅	*qʰonʔ
桓	*ɡʷaːn
洹	*ɡʷaːn, *ɢʷan
揎	*sqʰʷan
愃	*sqʰʷan, *qʰʷanʔ
瑄	*sqʰʷan
渲	*sqʰʷans
喧	*qʰʷan
萱	*qʰʷan
暄	*qʰʷan
諠	*qʰʷan
翧	*qʰʷan
蝖	*qʰʷan
垣	*ɢʷan
楦	*qʰʷans

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xuǎn (xuan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hyun², hyun¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: xuǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄢˇ
    • Wade–Giles: hsüan³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheuan
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕy̯ɛn²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hyun², hyun¹
    • Yale: hyún, hyūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hyn², hyn¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hün², hün¹
    • IPA ^(key): /hyːn³⁵/, /hyːn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /hˠiuᴇ^X/, /hʉɐn^X/▼

Rime
Character	烜	烜
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	支 (14)	元 (66)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	Chongniu III	III
Fanqie	許委切	况晚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hˠiuᴇX/	/hʉɐnX/
Pan Wuyun	/hʷᵚiɛX/	/hʷiɐnX/
Shao Rongfen	/xiuɛX/	/xiuɐnX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hjwiə̆X/	/huanX/
Li Rong	/xjueX/	/xiuɐnX/
Wang Li	/xǐweX/	/xĭwɐnX/
Bernard Karlgren	/xwie̯X/	/xi̯wɐnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huǐ	xuǎn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʷʰarʔ/, /*qʷʰarʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰrolʔ/, /*qʰonʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	烜	烜
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	huǐ	xuǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ xjweX ›	‹ xjwonX ›
Old Chinese	/*qʷʰarʔ/ (dialect: *-r > *-j)	/*qʷʰarʔ/
English	sunlight	to dry in the sun
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	烜	烜
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	3947	3957
Phonetic component	亘	亘
Rime group	歌	元
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	毀
Old Chinese	/*qʰrolʔ/	/*qʰonʔ/

Definitions

烜

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Japanese

Kanji

烜

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. light of the sun
2. to dry in the sun

Readings

• On (unclassified): てん (ten), かん (kan), き (ki)
• Kun: かわかす (kawakasu)

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Korean

Hanja

烜 • (hwon) (hangeul 훤, revised hwon, McCune–Reischauer hwŏn, Yale hwen)

1. light of the sun
2. to dry in the sun