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

Derived characters

• 𮦲

References

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

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
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): huang⁴ / huong⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hoàn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huàn
    • Wade–Giles: huan⁴
    • Yale: hwàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huann
    • Palladius: хуань (xuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯än⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wun⁶
    • Yale: wuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wun⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: wun⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuːn²²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: huang⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huaŋ⁴²/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: huong⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huoŋ⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (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: xwajH, xwanH

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
Baxter	xwajH	xwanH
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/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xuɑiH/	/xuɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huì	huàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fui3	fun3

• 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

1. to dissipate; to dissolve
2. (literary) to issue imperial edicts
3. (literary) overflowing; brimming
4. 59th hexagram of the I Ching

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

 

References

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

渙

(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)
• Nanori: あきら (akira)、きよし (kiyoshi)

Korean

Hanja

渙 (eum 환 (hwan))

1. scatter
2. scattered, dispersed

Vietnamese

Han character

渙: Hán Nôm readings: hoán

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References

• Nom Foundation