驩

See also: 歡

驩 U+9A69, 驩 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9A69 ← 驨 [U+9A68] CJK Unified Ideographs 驪 → [U+9A6A]

Translingual

Han character

驩 (Kangxi radical 187, 馬+18, 28 strokes, cangjie input 尸火廿口土 (SFTRG), four-corner 7431₄, composition ⿰馬雚)

1. happy, pleased, glad
2. joy
3. to enjoy

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1447, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45086
• Dae Jaweon: page 1972, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4584, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9A69

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
觀	*koːn, *koːns
灌	*koːns
鸛	*koːns
瓘	*koːns
矔	*koːns, *kroːns
懽	*koːns, *qʰoːn
爟	*koːns
雚	*koːns
罐	*koːns
鑵	*koːns
歡	*qʰoːn
驩	*qʰoːn
貛	*qʰoːn
酄	*qʰoːn
獾	*qʰoːn
讙	*qʰoːn, *qʰon
嚾	*qʰoːns
權	*ɡron
顴	*ɡron
孉	*ɡron
蠸	*ɡron
虇	*kʰonʔ, *kʰons
勸	*kʰons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰoːn) : semantic 馬 (“horse”) + phonetic 雚 (OC *koːns).

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 驩 – see 歡 (“happy; pleased; glad; joyous; friendly; amicable; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 歡).

Etymology 2

trad.		驩
simp.		𬴐

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huān (huan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fun¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huān
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huan
    • Wade–Giles: huan¹
    • Yale: hwān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huan
    • Palladius: хуань (xuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯än⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fun¹
    • Yale: fūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fun¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fun¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuːn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: xwan

Rime
Character	驩
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	呼官切
Baxter	xwan
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/huɑn/
Pan Wuyun	/hʷɑn/
Shao Rongfen	/xuɑn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hwan/
Li Rong	/xuɑn/
Wang Li	/xuɑn/
Bernard Karlgren	/xuɑn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fun1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʷʰˤar/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰoːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	驩	驩
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	huān	huān
Middle Chinese	‹ xwan ›	‹ xwan ›
Old Chinese	/*qʷʰˁar/	/*qʷʰˁar/
English	rejoice; joyous	驩潛 Khwārazm (region in Central Asia, W. Hàn)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	驩
Reading #	1/1
No.	4488
Phonetic component	雚
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	歡
Old Chinese	/*qʰoːn/

Definitions

驩

1. a kind of horse
2. a surname

Compounds

• 臚驩／胪欢
• 驩洽／欢洽
• 驩附／欢附

 

Japanese

Kanji

驩

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): かん (kan)
• Kun: よろこぶ (yorokobu)

Korean

Hanja

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

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