換

See also: 换

換	U+63DB, 換 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-63DB

← 揚
[U+63DA]

CJK Unified Ideographs

揜 →
[U+63DC]

Translingual

Han character

換 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 手弓月大 (QNBK), four-corner 5703₄, composition ⿰扌奐)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 442, character 14
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12358
Dae Jaweon: page 793, character 13
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 3, page 1922, character 4
Unihan data for U+63DB

Chinese

trad.		換
simp.		换

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 *ɢʷaːns): semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 奐 (OC *qʰʷaːns).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): huàn (huan⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄢˋ

(Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): huan⁴

(Xi'an, Guanzhong Pinyin): huān

(Nanjing, Nanjing Pinyin): huān

(Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): хуан (huan, III)
Cantonese
(Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): wun⁶

(Dongguan, Jyutping++): wun³

(Taishan, Wiktionary): von⁵
Gan (Wiktionary): uon⁵
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): von

(Hailu, HRS): von^˖

(Meixian, Guangdong): von⁴
Jin (Wiktionary): huan³
Northern Min (KCR): hūing
Eastern Min (BUC): uâng
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): yor⁵ / oe⁵ / ua⁵ / yann⁵ / iann⁵ / huang⁴ / hong⁴ / huerng⁴ / huong⁴
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): ōaⁿ / hoān / hoàn

(Teochew, Peng'im): uan⁷ / huêng³ / huang³

(Leizhou, Leizhou Pinyin): ua¹ / huang⁷
Southern Pinghua (Nanning, Jyutping++): wan⁶
Wu (Wugniu)
- (Northern): ⁶we / ⁶ve / ⁶woe / ⁶won / ⁶woen / ⁶wun
- (Jinhua): ⁶ua; ⁶uan
Xiang
(Changsha, Wiktionary): honn⁵ / honn⁴

(Loudi, Wiktionary): ghuenn⁵

(Hengyang, Wiktionary): fen⁵

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/
- (Chengdu)
  - Sichuanese Pinyin: huan⁴
  - Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: xuan
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xuan²¹³/
- (Xi'an)
  - Guanzhong Pinyin: huān
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xuã⁵⁵/
- (Nanjing)
  - Nanjing Pinyin: huān
  - Nanjing Pinyin (numbered): huan⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xuã⁴⁴/
- (Dungan)
  - Cyrillic and Wiktionary: хуан (huan, III)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xuæ̃⁴⁴/
  (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: wun⁶
  - Yale: wuhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: wun⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: wun⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuːn²²/
- (Dongguan, Guancheng)
  - Jyutping++: wun³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /vun³²/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: von⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /vᵘɔn³²/
Gan
- (Nanchang)
  - Wiktionary: uon⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /uɵn¹¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: von
  - Hakka Romanization System: von
  - Hagfa Pinyim: von⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /von⁵⁵/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: von^˖
  - Sinological IPA: /von³³/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: von⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /ʋɔn⁵³/
Jin
- (Taiyuan)⁺
  - Wiktionary: huan³
  - Sinological IPA (old-style): /xuæ̃⁴⁵/
Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: hūing
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xuiŋ⁵⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: uâng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /uɑŋ²⁴²/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: yor⁵
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: iō̤ⁿ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /yɒ¹¹/
- (Jiangkou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: oe⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /œ¹¹/
- (Nanri)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ua⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ua¹¹/
- (Xianyou, Youyang)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: yann⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ỹã²¹/
- (Fengting)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: iann⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ĩã²¹/
- (Putian, Youyang)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: huang⁴
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: hua̍ng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /huaŋ⁴²/
- (Jiangkou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hong⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔŋ⁴²/
- (Nanri)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: huerng⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /huəŋ⁴²/
- (Fengting)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: huerng⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɯəŋ⁴²/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: huong⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /huoŋ⁴²/

Note:

yor5/oe5/ua5/yann5/iann5 - vernacular;
huang4/hong4/huerng4/huong4 - literary.

Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Jinjiang, Hui'an, General Taiwanese, Philippines)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ōaⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: uānn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: voa
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /uã³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /uã²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Philippines): /uã⁴¹/
  - IPA (Hui'an): /uã²¹/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoān
  - Tâi-lô: huān
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoan
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /huan⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /huan²²/
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /huan³³/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoàn
  - Tâi-lô: huàn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoaxn
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /huan²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /huan¹¹/

Note:

ōaⁿ - vernacular;
hoān/hoàn - literary.

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: uan⁷ / huêng³ / huang³
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: uāⁿ / huèng / huàng
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /ũã¹¹/, /hueŋ²¹³/, /huaŋ²¹³/

Note:

uan7 - vernacular;
huêng3 - literary (Chaozhou);
huang3 - literary (Shantou).

(Leizhou)
- Leizhou Pinyin: ua¹ / huang⁷
- Sinological IPA: /ua³⁵/, /huaŋ⁵⁵/

Note:

ua1 - vernacular;
huang7 - literary.

Southern Pinghua
- (Nanning Pinghua, Tingzi)
  - Jyutping++: wan⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /βən²²/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai, Jiading, Chongming)
  - Wugniu: ⁶we
  - MiniDict: we^去
  - MiniDict: wie^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³hhue
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦue²³/
  - Sinological IPA (Jiading): /ɦuɪ¹³/
  - Sinological IPA (Chongming): /ɦue³¹³/
- (Northern: Songjiang)
  - Wugniu: ⁶ve
  - Sinological IPA (Songjiang): /βe¹³/
- (Northern: Suzhou, Changzhou)
  - Wugniu: ⁶woe
  - MiniDict: woe^去
  - Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /ɦuø²³¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Changzhou): /ɦuɵ²⁴/
- (Northern: Hangzhou)
  - Wugniu: ⁶won
  - MiniDict: won^去
  - Sinological IPA (Hangzhou): /ɦuõ¹¹³/
- (Northern: Shaoxing)
  - Wugniu: ⁶woen
  - MiniDict: woeon^去
  - Sinological IPA (Shaoxing): /ɦuø̃¹¹/
- (Northern: Ningbo)
  - Wugniu: ⁶wun
  - MiniDict: wun^去
  - Sinological IPA (Ningbo): /ɦũ¹¹³/
- (Jinhua)
  - Wugniu: ⁶ua; ⁶uan
  - Sinological IPA (Jinhua): /uɑ¹⁴/, /uã¹⁴/
Xiang
- (Changsha)
  - Wiktionary: honn⁵ / honn⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xõ²¹/, /xõ⁴⁵/

Note:

honn5 - vernacular;
honn4 - literary.

(Loudi)
- Wiktionary: ghuenn⁵
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɣu̯ẽ̞¹¹/
(Hengyang)
- Wiktionary: fen⁵
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /v̥e̞n²¹³/

Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 換
Mandarin	Beijing	/xuan⁵¹/
	Harbin	/xuan⁵³/
	Tianjin	/xuan⁵³/
	Jinan	/xuã²¹/
	Qingdao	/xuã⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/xuan³¹²/
	Xi'an	/xuã⁴⁴/
	Xining	/xuã²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/xuan¹³/
	Lanzhou	/xuɛ̃n¹³/
	Ürümqi	/xuan²¹³/
	Wuhan	/xuan³⁵/
	Chengdu	/xuan¹³/
	Guiyang	/xuan²¹³/
	Kunming	/xuã̠²¹²/
	Nanjing	/xuaŋ⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/xʊ̃⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/xuæ̃⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/xuɑŋ³⁵/
	Hohhot	/xuæ̃⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/ɦue²³/
	Suzhou	/ɦuø³¹/
	Hangzhou	/ɦuõ¹³/
	Wenzhou	/va²²/
Hui	Shexian	/xuɛ²²/ /uɛ²²/
Hui	Tunxi	/uːə¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/xõ⁵⁵/ /xõ¹¹/
Xiang	Xiangtan	/ɦɔn²¹/
Gan	Nanchang	/uɵn²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/von⁵³/
Hakka	Taoyuan	/von⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/wun²²/
	Nanning	/wun²²/
	Hong Kong	/wun²²/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/huan²²/ /uã²²/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/uɑŋ²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/xuiŋ⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/huaŋ²¹³/ /uã³¹/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/huaŋ³⁵/ /ua²³/

Middle Chinese: hwanH

Rime
Character	換
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	胡玩切
Baxter	hwanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦuɑn^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷɑn^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɑn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwan^H/
Li Rong	/ɣuɑn^H/
Wang Li	/ɣuɑn^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣuɑn^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wun⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷˤa[n]-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷaːns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	換
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	huàn
Middle Chinese	‹ hwan^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ʷˁa[n]-s/
English	change
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	換
Reading #	1/1
No.	5360
Phonetic component	奐
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷaːns/

Definitions

換

to exchange
用石油換糧食／用石油换粮食 ― yòng shíyóu huàn liángshí ― to trade oil for grain

一百元人民幣能換多少港幣？ [MSC, trad.]
一百元人民币能换多少港币？ [MSC, simp.]
Yībǎi yuán rénmínbì néng huàn duōshào gǎngbì? [Pinyin]
How many Hong Kong dollars can one hundred renminbi be exchanged for?
to change; to exchange; to replace; to swap; to switch; to substitute
換衣服／换衣服 ― huàn yīfu ― to change one's clothes

政府換咗人又點啫？ [Cantonese, trad.]
政府换咗人又点啫？ [Cantonese, simp.]
zing³ fu² wun⁶ zo² jan⁴ jau⁶ dim² ze¹? [Jyutping]
OK, the head of government has changed; so what?

Compounds

換不來 / 换不来
換不開 / 换不开
換乘 / 换乘 (huànchéng)
換人 / 换人
換代 / 换代 (huàndài)
換位 / 换位 (huànwèi)
換個兒 / 换个儿
換匯 / 换汇 (huànhuì)
換取 / 换取 (huànqǔ)
換句話說 / 换句话说 (huànjùhuàshuō)
換季 / 换季 (huànjì)
換屆 / 换届 (huànjiè)
換崗 / 换岗 (huàngǎng)
換工 / 换工
換帖 / 换帖
換心 / 换心
換房 / 换房
換擋 / 换挡 (huàndǎng)
換文 / 换文
換樣 / 换样
換樣兒 / 换样儿
換氣 / 换气 (huànqì)
換氣扇 / 换气扇
換洗 / 换洗 (huànxǐ)
換湯不換藥 / 换汤不换药 (huàn tāng bù huàn yào)
換牙 / 换牙 (huànyá)
換班 / 换班 (huànbān)
換算 / 换算 (huànsuàn)
換約 / 换约
換肩 / 换肩 (huànjiān)
換腦筋 / 换脑筋
換茬 / 换茬
換血 / 换血 (huànxuè)
換親 / 换亲
換言之 / 换言之 (huànyánzhī)
換車 / 换车 (huànchē)
換錢 / 换钱 (huànqián)
換防 / 换防 (huànfáng)
換馬 / 换马 (huànmǎ)

References

“換”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
“換”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

References

“換”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “换”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 223.