萈
See also: 莧
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Translingual
Alternative forms
- In Taiwan and Hong Kong, the upper component of this character is ⻀ (ram's horn), which is the original form found in the Shuowen Jiezi dictionary.
- In mainland China, the upper component of this character is 艹 (grass radical) which is the same form found in the Kangxi dictionary.
Han character
萈 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+8, 12 strokes in traditional Chinese, 11 strokes in mainland China, cangjie input 廿月山戈 (TBUI), four-corner 44213, composition ⿱艹⿷見丶(G) or ⿱⻀⿷見丶(T))
Usage notes
This character is not to be confused with visually similar 莧 (U+83A7) which is based on the grass radical and does not have an additional 丶 dot in the component 見.
Derived characters
- 𦏊, 𡅽, 寬, 𡅻 (Contains ⻀ (ram's horn) for Taiwan/Hong Kong and 艹 (grass radical) for mainland China and other regions)
- 𬪖 (Contains 艹 grass radical)
- 𬉛 (Contains ⻀ ram's horn)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1040, character 31
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31257
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3233, character 9
- Unihan data for U+8408
Chinese
| simp. and trad. |
萈 | |
|---|---|---|
| alternative forms | 𦏊 羦 𦎻 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 萈 | |
|---|---|
| Shang | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Oracle bone script | Small seal script |
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Pictogram (象形) – a goat, showing its horns, head, legs and tail. Shuowen erroneously considers it to be a phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡoːn): phonetic 𥄕 (mò) + semantic [Term?] (“legs of a rabbit”).
Pronunciation
- 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/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: wun4
- Yale: wùhn
- Cantonese Pinyin: wun4
- Guangdong Romanization: wun4
- Sinological IPA (key): /wuːn²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Middle Chinese: hwan
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*ɡoːn/
Definitions
萈