环

See also: 環

环 U+73AF, 环 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-73AF ← 玮 [U+73AE] CJK Unified Ideographs 现 → [U+73B0]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

环 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 一土一火 (MGMF), four-corner 1119₀, composition ⿰𤣩不)

Related characters

• 環 (Orthodox traditional form of 环)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 728, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1103, character 7
• Unihan data for U+73AF

Chinese

Etymology 1

Glyph origin

Unorthodox variant simplified from 環 (huán) (睘 (qióng) → 不) and found in the Ming dynasty orthographic dictionary 《字學三正》.

Eventually adopted as an official simplified character by the People's Republic of China in the 1956 Chinese Character Simplification Scheme.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 环 – see 環 (“circle; ring; round; etc.”). (This character, 环, is the simplified and variant form of 環.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02604-001#35

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 环 – see 寰 (“great domain; country; etc.”). (This character, 环, is the second-round simplified form of 寰.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.