萈

See also: 莧

萈 U+8408, 萈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8408 ← 萇 [U+8407] CJK Unified Ideographs 萉 → [U+8409]

Translingual

Alternative forms

• In Taiwan and Hong Kong, the upper component of this character is ⻀ (ram's horn), which is the original form found in the Shuowen Jiezi dictionary.
• In mainland China, the upper component of this character is 艹 (grass radical) which is the same form found in the Kangxi dictionary.

Han character

萈 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+8, 12 strokes in traditional Chinese, 11 strokes in mainland China, cangjie input 廿月山戈 (TBUI), four-corner 4421₃, composition ⿱艹⿷見丶(G) or ⿱⻀⿷見丶(T))

Usage notes

This character is not to be confused with visually similar 莧 (U+83A7) which is based on the grass radical and does not have an additional 丶 dot in the component 見.

Derived characters

• 𦏊, 𡅽, 寬, 𡅻 (Contains ⻀ (ram's horn) for Taiwan/Hong Kong and 艹 (grass radical) for mainland China and other regions)
• 𬪖 (Contains 艹 grass radical)
• 𬉛 (Contains ⻀ ram's horn)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1040, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31257
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3233, character 9
• Unihan data for U+8408

Chinese

simp. and trad.		萈
alternative 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／形声, OC *ɡoːn) : phonetic 𥄕 () + semantic [Term?] (“legs of a rabbit”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huán (huan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wun⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huán
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huán
    • Wade–Giles: huan²
    • Yale: hwán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwan
    • Palladius: хуань (xuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯än³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wun⁴
    • Yale: wùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wun⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: wun⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuːn²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: hwan

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
Baxter	hwan
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wun4

• 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

1. ^† goat with thin horns