浣

浣 U+6D63, 浣 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6D63 ← 浢 [U+6D62] CJK Unified Ideographs 浤 → [U+6D64]

Translingual

Han character

浣 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 水十一山 (EJMU), four-corner 3311₁, composition ⿰氵完)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 624, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17470
• Dae Jaweon: page 1021, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1633, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6D63

Chinese

trad.		浣/澣
simp.		浣

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
冠	*kŋoːn, *kŋoːns
莞	*kŋoːn, *ɦŋoːn, *ɦŋroːnʔ
脘	*ŋkoːnʔ
筦	*ŋkoːnʔ
梡	*ŋ̊ʰoːnʔ, *ɦŋoːn, *ɦŋoːnʔ
岏	*ŋoːn
刓	*ŋoːn
园	*ŋoːn
忨	*ŋoːn, *ŋoːns
蚖	*ŋoːn, *ŋon
黿	*ŋoːn, *ŋon
抏	*ŋoːn
玩	*ŋoːns
貦	*ŋoːns
翫	*ŋoːns
妧	*ŋoːns
完	*ɦŋoːn
捖	*ɦŋoːn
垸	*ɦŋoːn, *ɦŋoːns
綄	*ɦŋoːn, *ɦŋoːnʔ
院	*ɦŋoːn, *ɦŋons
皖	*ɦŋoːnʔ, *ɦŋroːnʔ
晥	*ɦŋoːnʔ
浣	*ɦŋoːnʔ
頑	*ŋroːn, *ŋroːn
睆	*ɦŋroːnʔ
鯇	*ɦŋroːnʔ
元	*ŋon
沅	*ŋon
芫	*ŋon
杬	*ŋon
邧	*ŋon, *ŋonʔ
阮	*ŋon, *ŋonʔ
俒	*ɦŋuːn, *ɦŋuːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɦŋoːnʔ) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 完 (OC *ɦŋoːn).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huàn, wǎn, huǎn

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄢˋ, ㄨㄢˇ, ㄏㄨㄢˇ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): wun⁵ / wun²

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): fon²

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): oán / oān
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵uoe
• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): konn³ / honn⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huàn
    • Wade–Giles: huan⁴
    • Yale: hwàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huann
    • Palladius: хуань (xuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯än⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wǎn
    • Wade–Giles: wan³
    • Yale: wǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woan
    • Palladius: вань (vanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wän²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, variant in Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huǎn
    • Wade–Giles: huan³
    • Yale: hwǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hoan
    • Palladius: хуань (xuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯än²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wun⁵ / wun²
    • Yale: wúhn / wún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wun⁵ / wun²
    • Guangdong Romanization: wun⁵ / wun²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuːn¹³/, /wuːn³⁵/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: fon²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fᵘɔn⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oán / oān
    • Tâi-lô: uán / uān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oarn, oan
    • IPA (Xiamen): /uan⁵³/, /uan²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /uan⁵⁵⁴/, /uan⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /uan⁵³/, /uan²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /uan⁵³/, /uan³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /uan⁴¹/, /uan³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵uoe
    • MiniDict: uoe^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²uoe
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /uø³⁴/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: konn³ / honn⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰõ⁴¹/, /xõ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: hwanX

Rime
Character	浣
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	胡管切
Baxter	hwanX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦuɑnX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷɑnX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɑnX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwanX/
Li Rong	/ɣuɑnX/
Wang Li	/ɣuɑnX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣuɑnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wun6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ˤo[n]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɦŋoːnʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	浣
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	huàn
Middle Chinese	‹ hwanX ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ˁo[n]ʔ/
English	to wash clothes
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	浣
Reading #	1/1
No.	16134
Phonetic component	元
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	緩
Old Chinese	/*ɦŋoːnʔ/
Notes	同澣

Definitions

浣

1. to wash; to rinse

   竹喧歸浣女，蓮動下漁舟。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
   竹喧归浣女，莲动下渔舟。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: Wang Wei, 山居秋暝, circa 8ᵗʰ century ᴄᴇ

   Zhú xuān guī huàn nǚ, lián dòng xià yúzhōu. [Pinyin]

   The clamour of washerwomen returning through bamboo groves; fishing boats are lowered down by the lotus flowers.

2. any of the three ten-day divisions of a month
3. a surname

Compounds

• 上浣 (shànghuàn)
• 下浣
• 中浣
• 浣滌／浣涤 (huàndí)
• 浣濯
• 浣熊 (huànxióng)
• 浣紗溪／浣纱溪
• 浣紗記／浣纱记
• 浣花日
• 浣花溪
• 浣花集
• 浣衣 (huànyī)
• 浣雪
• 湔浣腸胃／湔浣肠胃
• 火浣布
• 火浣布衫

 

References

• “浣”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

浣

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. wash
2. first, second, or third of 10 days in a lunar month

Readings

• Go-on: がん (gan)^{←ぐわん (gwan, historical)}
• Kan-on: かん (kan)^{←くわん (kwan, historical)}
• Kun: あらう (arau, 浣う)^{←あらふ (arafu, 浣ふ, historical)}

Compounds

• 浣(アライ)熊(グマ) (araiguma)
• 浣(かん)衣(い) (kan'i) (澣(かん)衣(い))
• 浣(かん)洒(さい) (kansai)
• 浣(かん)雪(せつ) (kansetsu)
• 浣(かん)染(せん) (kansen)
• 浣(かん)濯(たく) (kantaku) (澣(かん)濯(たく))
• 浣(かん)腸(ちょう) (kanchō) (灌(かん)腸(ちょう))
• 浣(かん)滌(でき) (kandeki)
• 浣(かん)服(ぷく) (kanpuku)
• 下(か)浣(かん) (kakan), 下(げ)浣(かん) (gekan)
• 火(か)浣(かん)布(ぷ) (kakanpu)
• 三(さん)浣(かん) (sankan)
• 上(じょう)浣(かん) (jōkan)
• 漱(そう)浣(かん) (sōkan)
• 中(ちゅう)浣(かん) (chūkan)

 

Korean

Hanja

浣 (eum 완 (wan))

1. to wash
2. to rinse

Vietnamese

Han character

浣: Hán Nôm readings: hoán

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References

• Nom Foundation