幻

Translingual

Han character

幻 (radical 52 幺+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 女戈尸 (VIS), X女戈尸 (XVIS), four-corner 2772₀, composition ⿰幺𠃌)

1. illusion, fantasy, mirage
2. mystical, mysterious

References

• KangXi: page 341, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9190
• Dae Jaweon: page 650, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1093, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5E7B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

幻 (Yale waan6)

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Japanese

Kanji

幻 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. phantasm; vision; dream; illusion; apparition

Readings

• Go'on: げん (gen)
• Kun: まぼろし (maboroshi)

Compounds

• 魔幻 (まげん, magen)
• 幻影 (げんえい, gen'ei)
• 幻灯 (げんとう, gentō)
• 幻覚 (げんかく, genkaku)
• 幻術 (げんじゅつ, genjutsu)
• 幻滅 (げんめつ, genmetsu)
• 幻想 (げんそう, gensō)
• 夢幻 (むげん, mugen)

Etymology

Probably from Old Japanese; used in The Tale of Genji, completed in 1021.

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• IPA: [ma̠bo̞ɽo̞ɕi]

Noun

幻 (hiragana まぼろし, romaji maboroshi)

1. an illusion, a phantom, a dream, a vision

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Korean

Hanja

幻 (hangeul 환, revised hwan, McCune-Reischauer hwan)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

幻 (pinyin huàn (huan4), Wade-Giles huan⁴)

Compounds

• 幻灯
• 幻灯机
• 幻化
• 幻景
• 幻境
• 幻觉,幻覺
• 幻梦
• 幻灭
• 幻术
• 幻想
• 幻象
• 幻影

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Vietnamese

Han character

幻 (huyễn, ảo, hoẻn)