鬟

鬟	U+9B1F, 鬟 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9B1F

← 鬞
[U+9B1E]

CJK Unified Ideographs

鬠 →
[U+9B20]

Translingual

Han character

鬟 (Kangxi radical 190, 髟+13, 23 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹田中女 (SHWLV), four-corner 7273₂, composition ⿱髟睘)

dress hair in coiled knot
maid

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1456, character 54
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45596
Dae Jaweon: page 1988, character 18
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4536, character 9
Unihan data for U+9B1F

Chinese

simp. and trad.		鬟

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 鬟
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
癏	*kʷraːn
擐	kʷraːn, ɡʷraːns
還	ɡʷraːn, sɢʷan
環	*ɡʷraːn
鬟	*ɡʷraːn
寰	ɡʷraːn, ɡʷeːns
闤	*ɡʷraːn
糫	*ɡʷraːn
圜	ɡʷraːn, ɡʷen
鐶	*ɡʷraːn
轘	ɡʷraːn, ɡʷraːns
澴	*ɡʷraːn
繯	ɡʷraːns, ɡʷeːnʔ
檈	sɢʷan, sɢʷin
儇	*qʰʷen
翾	*qʰʷen
蠉	qʰʷen, qʰʷenʔ
嬛	qʰʷen, qʷen, *ɡʷeŋ
譞	*qʰʷen
懁	*kʷeːns
獧	*kʷeːns
噮	*qʷeːns
彋	ɡʷreːŋ, ɡʷreːŋ
睘	*ɡʷeŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡʷraːn): semantic 髟 (“hair”) + phonetic 睘 (OC *ɡʷeŋ)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): huán (huan²)

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): waan⁴
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): huang² / huong²

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/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: waan⁴
  - Yale: wàahn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: waan⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: wan⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /waːn²¹/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: huang²
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: huáng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /huaŋ¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: huong²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /huoŋ²⁴/

Middle Chinese: hwaen

Rime
Character	鬟
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	刪 (70)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	戸關切
Baxter	hwaen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠuan/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷᵚan/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɐn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwaɨn/
Li Rong	/ɣuan/
Wang Li	/ɣwan/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣwan/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	waan⁴

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷraːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鬟
Reading #	1/1
No.	16232
Phonetic component	睘
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	還
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷraːn/

Definitions

鬟

a knot of hair on the head

Compounds

上鬟 (shànghuán)
丫鬟 (yāhuan)
低鬟
婭鬟 / 娅鬟
小鬟
煙鬟 / 烟鬟
翠鬟
雙鬟 / 双鬟
雲鬟 / 云鬟
霧鬢風鬟 / 雾鬓风鬟
風鬟雨鬢 / 风鬟雨鬓
風鬟霧鬢 / 风鬟雾鬓
鴉鬟 / 鸦鬟
黛鬟

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “鬟”, 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

鬟

(Hyōgai kanji)

dress hair in coiled knot, in which Japanese men in Kofun and Asuka period wore their hair.

Readings

Go-on: げん (gen)
Kan-on: かん (kan)^{←くわん (kwan, historical)}
Kun: わげ (wage, 鬟)、みずら (mizura, 鬟)

Korean

Hanja

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

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