萈

See also: 莧

萈	U+8408, 萈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8408

← 萇
[U+8407]

CJK Unified Ideographs

萉 →
[U+8409]

Translingual

Han character

萈 (radical 140, 艸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿月山戈 (TBUI), composition ⿺莧丶)

Descendants

寬

References

KangXi: page 1040, character 31
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31257
Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3233, character 9
Unihan data for U+8408

Chinese

simp. and trad.		萈
alt. forms		𦏊羦𦎻

Glyph origin

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

Characters in the same phonetic series (萈) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
寬	*kʰoːn
髖	kʰoːn, kʰuːn
萈	*ɡoːn
臗	*kʰuːn

Pictogram (象形) – a goat, showing its horns, head, legs and tail. Shuowen erroneously considers it to be a phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡoːn) : phonetic 𥄕 + semantic [Term?] (“legs of a rabbit”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): huán (huan²)

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): wun⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: huán
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄢˊ
  - Wade–Giles: huan²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwan
  - IPA ^(key): /xu̯a̠n³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: wun⁴
  - Yale: wùhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: wun⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: wun⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /wuːn²¹/

Middle Chinese: /ɦuɑn/▼

Rime
Character	萈
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	胡官切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦuɑn/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷɑn/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɑn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwan/
Li Rong	/ɣuɑn/
Wang Li	/ɣuɑn/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣuɑn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huán

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*ɡoːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	萈
Reading #	1/1
No.	5348
Phonetic component	萈
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	桓
Old Chinese	/*ɡoːn/

Definitions

萈

^† goat with thin horns

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