煥

See also: 烉 and 焕

煥 U+7165, 煥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7165 ← 煤 [U+7164] CJK Unified Ideographs 煦 → [U+7166]

Translingual

Han character

煥 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 火弓月大 (FNBK), four-corner 9783₄, composition ⿰火奐)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 677, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19224
• Dae Jaweon: page 1089, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 3, page 2219, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7165

Chinese

trad.		煥
simp.		焕

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰʷaːns) : semantic 火 (“fire”) + phonetic 奐 (OC *qʰʷaːns).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huàn (huan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wun⁶
• Eastern Min (BUC): huáng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hoàn / hoān

  (Teochew, Peng'im): huang³ / huêng³

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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/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: huáng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huɑŋ²¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoàn
    • Tâi-lô: huàn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoaxn
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /huan⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /huan²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /huan¹¹/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoān
    • Tâi-lô: huān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoan
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /huan³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: huang³ / huêng³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: huàng / huèng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huaŋ²¹³/, /hueŋ²¹³/

Note: huêng3 - Chaozhou.

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• Middle Chinese: xwanH

Rime
Character	煥
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	火貫切
Baxter	xwanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/huɑnH/
Pan Wuyun	/hʷɑnH/
Shao Rongfen	/xuɑnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hwanH/
Li Rong	/xuɑnH/
Wang Li	/xuɑnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/xuɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fun3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰʷaːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	煥
Reading #	1/1
No.	5356
Phonetic component	奐
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	喚
Old Chinese	/*qʰʷaːns/

Definitions

煥

1. ^† flare; blaze
2. glowing; shining; lustrous; brilliant
3. to radiate
4. a surname

Compounds

• 容光煥發／容光焕发 (róngguānghuànfā)
• 小煥嶺／小焕岭 (Xiǎohuànlǐng)
• 炳煥／炳焕
• 煥別／焕别
• 煥然／焕然
• 煥然一新／焕然一新 (huànrányīxīn)
• 煥然冰釋／焕然冰释
• 煥煥／焕焕
• 煥發／焕发 (huànfā)
• 煥綺／焕绮
• 煥赫／焕赫
• 眴煥／眴焕
• 神采煥發／神采焕发
• 精神煥發／精神焕发 (jīngshénhuànfā)
• 英姿煥發／英姿焕发
• 顯煥／显焕

 

Japanese

Kanji

煥

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. shine

Readings

• Go-on: かん (kan)
• Kan-on: かん (kan)
• Kun: あきらか (akiraka, 煥らか)

Korean

Hanja

煥 • (hwan) (hangeul 환, revised hwan, McCune–Reischauer hwan, Yale hwan)

1. shining, brilliant
2. lustrous

Vietnamese

Han character

煥: Hán Việt readings: hoán

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