閄

See also: 門人

閄 U+9584, 閄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9584 ← 閃 [U+9583] CJK Unified Ideographs 閅 → [U+9585]

Translingual

Han character

閄 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+2, 10 strokes, cangjie input 日弓人 (ANO) or 難難日弓人 (XXANO), four-corner 7820₀, composition ⿰門人)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1330, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41216
• Dae Jaweon: page 1834, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4282, character 10
• Unihan data for U+9584

Chinese

trad.		閄
simp.		𬮘

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 門 (“door”) + 人 (“human”) - meaning "a man waiting beside a door to scare someone".

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huò (huo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wik⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huò
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huò
    • Wade–Giles: huo⁴
    • Yale: hwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huoh
    • Palladius: хо (xo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wik⁶
    • Yale: wihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wik⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wig⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɪk̚²/

Definitions

閄

1. (dialectal, obsolete) the sound produced to scare someone after emerging from hiding

   • 粵中俗字有閄，和馘切，隱身忽出驚人之聲也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     粤中俗字有閄，和馘切，隐身忽出惊人之声也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 翟灝 《通俗編·卷三十三·語辭》, originally from 《桂海虞衡誌》

     Yuè zhōng súzì yǒu 閄, hé guó qiè, yǐnshēn hū chū jīng rén zhī shēng yě. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shǎn (shan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄢˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shǎn
    • Wade–Giles: shan³
    • Yale: shǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shaan
    • Palladius: шань (šanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂän²¹⁴/

Definitions

閄

1. (dialectal, obsolete) to suddenly emerge after hiding

References

• 《漢語方言大詞典》 (中華書局, 1999), page 1432.

Japanese

Kanji

閄

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Usage notes

• Infamous for supposedly having the longest kun'yomi ever, ものかげからきゅうにとびだしてひとをおどろかせるときにはっするこえ (monokage kara kyū ni tobidashite hito o odorokaseru toki ni hassuru koe, literally “sound produced when suddenly jumping from the shadows to scare a person”), but this is actually just the definition. See 閄 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja

Readings

• Go-on: わく (waku)
• Kan-on: こく (koku)

Korean

Hanja

閄 (eum 혹 (hok))

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