See also:
U+559A, 喚
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-559A

[U+5599]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+559B]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口弓月大 (RNBK), four-corner 67034, composition )

  1. call, summon
  2. invite
  3. be called

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 199, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3953
  • Dae Jaweon: page 420, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 1, page 658, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+559A

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qʰʷaːns): semantic + phonetic (OC *qʰʷaːns).

Pronunciation


Note: huêng3 - Chaozhou.
  • Wu
    • (Northern: Shanghai)
      • Wugniu: 5huoe
      • MiniDict: huoe
      • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): 2huoe
      • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /huø³⁴/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (32)
Final () (62)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter xwanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/huɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/hʷɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/xuɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/hwanH/
Li
Rong
/xuɑnH/
Wang
Li
/xuɑnH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/xuɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
huàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
fun3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 5355
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qʰʷaːns/

Definitions

  1. to call; to summon

Synonyms

Compounds

References

  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 93.

Japanese

Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)
  • Kun: よぶ (yobu, 喚ぶ)わめく (wameku, 喚く)
  • Nanori: よぶ (yobu)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
かん
Grade: S
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese (MC xwanH).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kã̠ɴ]

Affix

(かん) • (kanくわん (kwan)?

  1. to shout; to cry
  2. to call; to summon

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese (MC xwanH).

Hanja

Wikisource

(eumhun 부를 (bureul hwan))

  1. hanja form? of (call)

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: hoán

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