萈

See also: 莧
萈 U+8408, 萈
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8408
← 萇
[U+8407]
CJK Unified Ideographs 萉 →
[U+8409]

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

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 () + semantic [Term?] (“legs of a rabbit”).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character 萈
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 胡官切
Baxter hwan
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦuɑn/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦʷɑn/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣuɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦwan/
Li
Rong
/ɣuɑn/
Wang
Li
/ɣuɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣuɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
huán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
wun4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 萈
Reading # 1/1
No. 5348
Phonetic
component
萈
Rime
group
元
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
桓
Old
Chinese
/*ɡoːn/

Definitions

萈

  1. † goat with thin horns
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