閽

See also: 阍

閽	U+95BD, 閽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-95BD

← 閼
[U+95BC]

CJK Unified Ideographs

閾 →
[U+95BE]

Translingual

Han character

閽 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 日弓竹心日 (ANHPA), four-corner 7760₅, composition ⿵門昏)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1337, character 16
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41383
Dae Jaweon: page 1843, character 3
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4305, character 9
Unihan data for U+95BD

Chinese

trad.		閽
simp.		阍

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
鍲	*mrɯn
抿	mrɯn, mrɯn, *mrɯnʔ
緡	*mrɯn
捪	*mrɯnʔ
湣	*mrɯnʔ
昏	*hmɯːn
婚	*hmɯːn
閽	*hmɯːn
惛	hmɯːn, hmɯːnʔ, *hmɯːns
棔	*hmɯːn
殙	*hmɯːn

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hūn (hun¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fan¹
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹huen

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hūn
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hun
  - Wade–Giles: hun¹
  - Yale: hwūn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huen
  - Palladius: хунь (xunʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ən⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: fan¹
  - Yale: fān
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fan¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: fen¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐn⁵⁵/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ¹huen
  - MiniDict: huen^平
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹hun
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /huən⁵³/

Middle Chinese: xwon

Rime
Character	閽
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	呼昆切
Baxter	xwon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/huən/
Pan Wuyun	/huon/
Shao Rongfen	/xuən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hwən/
Li Rong	/xuən/
Wang Li	/xuən/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xuən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hūn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fan¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*hmɯːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	閽
Reading #	1/1
No.	5531
Phonetic component	昏
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	昏
Old Chinese	/*hmɯːn/

Definitions

閽

(literary) gatekeeper
(literary) to guard the gate
(literary) palace gate

Compounds

九閽 / 九阍
叩閽 / 叩阍
天閽 / 天阍
帝閽 / 帝阍
閽人 / 阍人 (hūnrén)
閽侍 / 阍侍
閽寺 / 阍寺
閽者 / 阍者

Japanese

Kanji

閽

(Hyōgai kanji)

gatekeeper
gate, door

Readings

On (unclassified): こん (kon)
Kun: もんばん (monban)

Korean

Hanja

閽 • (hon) (hangeul 혼, revised hon, McCune–Reischauer hon, Yale hon)

gatekeeper
gate, door