幻

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TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

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

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

ReferencesEdit

• 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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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		幻

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huàn (huan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waan⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: huàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄢˋ
    • Wade-Giles: huan⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huann
    • IPA ^(key): /xu̯a̠n⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: waan⁶
    • Yale: waahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waan⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /wɑːn²²/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 幻
Mandarin	Beijing	/xuan⁵¹/
	Harbin	/xuan⁵³/
	Tianjin	/xuan⁵³/
	Jinan	/xuã²¹/
	Qingdao	/xuã⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/xuan³¹²/
	Xi'an	/xuã⁴⁴/
	Xining	/xuã²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/xuan¹³/
	Lanzhou	/xuɛ̃n¹³/
	Ürümqi	/xuan²¹³/
	Wuhan	/xuan³⁵/
	Chengdu	/xuan¹³/
	Guiyang	/xuan²¹³/
	Kunming	/xuã̠²¹²/
	Nanjing	/xuaŋ⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/xʊ̃⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/xuæ̃⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/xuɑŋ³⁵/
	Hohhot	/xuæ̃⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/ue³⁵/
	Suzhou	/ue̞⁵¹³/
	Hangzhou	/ɦuõ¹³/
	Wenzhou	/v̠a³⁵/
Hui	Shexian	/xuɛ²²/
	Tunxi	/xuːə⁴²/
Xiang	Changsha	/xõ⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/hɔn⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/fɵn²¹/ /fan²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/fan⁵³/
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/wan²²/
	Nanning	/wan²²/
	Hong Kong	/wan²²/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/huan²²/ /huan²¹/ 俗
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/huɑŋ²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/xuiŋ⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/huaŋ²¹³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/huaŋ³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦˠuɛn^H/▼

Rime
Character	幻
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	山 (74)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	胡辨切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠuɛnH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷᵚænH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuænH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwəɨnH/
Li Rong	/ɣuɛnH/
Wang Li	/ɣwænH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣwănH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huàn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷreːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	幻
Reading #	1/1
No.	5352
Phonetic component	幻
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	幻
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷreːns/

DefinitionsEdit

幻

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CompoundsEdit

• 幻燈／幻灯 (huàndēng)
• 幻燈機／幻灯机
• 幻化
• 幻景 (huànjǐng)
• 幻境 (huànjìng)
• 幻覺／幻觉 (huànjué)
• 幻夢／幻梦
• 幻滅／幻灭 (huànmiè)
• 幻術／幻术
• 幻想 (huànxiǎng)
• 幻象 (huànxiàng)
• 幻影 (huànyǐng)

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

幻

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. phantasm; vision; dream; illusion; apparition

ReadingsEdit

• Goon: げん (gen)
• Kan’on: かん (kan) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kun: まぼろし (maboroshi)

CompoundsEdit

• 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)

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• Kun'yomi
• IPA^(key): [ma̠bo̞ɽo̞ɕi]

NounEdit

幻 ‎(hiragana まぼろし, romaji maboroshi)

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

Derived termsEdit

• 幻 (まぼろし)を追 (お)う ‎(maboroshi o ou): to pursue phantoms

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

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

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

幻 (huyễn, hoẻn, ảo)

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Usage notesEdit

• Ảo appears to be a misreading due to confusion with the character 抝 or 拗 ‎(ảo). It is the predominant reading in most Sino-Vietnamese words containing the character 幻. The "appropriate" reading huyễn occurs only in huyễn hoặc.