闤

See also: 阛

闤 U+95E4, 闤 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-95E4 ← 闣 [U+95E3] CJK Unified Ideographs 闥 → [U+95E5]

Translingual

Han character

闤 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+13, 21 strokes, cangjie input 日弓田中女 (ANWLV), four-corner 7773₂, composition ⿵門睘)

1. wall around market place

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1342, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41506
• Dae Jaweon: page 1847, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4320, character 4
• Unihan data for U+95E4

Chinese

trad.		闤
simp.		阛

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 闤
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (睘) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
癏	*kʷraːn
擐	*kʷraːn, *ɡʷraːns
還	*ɡʷraːn, *sɢʷan
環	*ɡʷraːn
鬟	*ɡʷraːn
寰	*ɡʷraːn, *ɡʷeːns
闤	*ɡʷraːn
糫	*ɡʷraːn
圜	*ɡʷraːn, *ɡʷen
鐶	*ɡʷraːn
轘	*ɡʷraːn, *ɡʷraːns
澴	*ɡʷraːn
繯	*ɡʷraːns, *ɡʷeːnʔ
檈	*sɢʷan, *sɢʷin
儇	*qʰʷen
翾	*qʰʷen
蠉	*qʰʷen, *qʰʷenʔ
嬛	*qʰʷen, *qʷen, *ɡʷeŋ
譞	*qʰʷen
懁	*kʷeːns
獧	*kʷeːns
噮	*qʷeːns
彋	*ɡʷreːŋ, *ɡʷreːŋ
睘	*ɡʷeŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡʷraːn) : semantic 門 (“door”) + phonetic 睘 (OC *ɡʷeŋ)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huán (huan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waan⁴

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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: waan⁴
    • Yale: wàahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: wan⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waːn²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: hwaen

Rime
Character	闤
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	刪 (70)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	戸關切
Baxter	hwaen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠuan/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷᵚan/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɐn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwaɨn/
Li Rong	/ɣuan/
Wang Li	/ɣwan/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣwan/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	waan4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷraːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	闤
Reading #	1/1
No.	16234
Phonetic component	睘
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	還
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷraːn/

Definitions

闤

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Compounds

• 闤闠／阛阓 (huánhuì)

 

Japanese

Kanji

闤

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. wall around market place

Readings

• On (unclassified): かん (kan); げん (gen); わん (wan); えん (en)
• Kun: かき (kaki)

Korean

Hanja

闤 • (hwan) (hangeul 환, revised hwan, McCune–Reischauer hwan)

1. market place
2. the wall surrounding the market