暵

See also: 堇

暵 U+66B5, 暵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-66B5 ← 暴 [U+66B4] CJK Unified Ideographs 暶 → [U+66B6]

Translingual

Han character

暵 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 日廿中人 (ATLO), four-corner 6403₄, composition ⿰日𦰩)

Related characters

• 漢 難 歎 嘆

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 499, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14138
• Dae Jaweon: page 869, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1532, character 12
• Unihan data for U+66B5

Chinese

trad.		暵
simp. #		暵

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
儺	*naːl
臡	*naːl, *neːl, *njeːl
嘆	*n̥ʰaːn, *n̥ʰaːns
灘	*n̥ʰaːn, *naːns, *hnaːnʔ, *hnaːns
擹	*n̥ʰaːn
攤	*n̥ʰaːn, *naːnʔ, *naːns
癱	*n̥ʰaːn
歎	*n̥ʰaːns
難	*n̥ʰaːn, *naːns
暵	*hnaːnʔ, *hnaːns
熯	*hnaːnʔ, *hnaːns, *njanʔ
漢	*hnaːns
戁	*rnaːnʔ, *njanʔ

Compound - the radical of the sun 日 and 堇 as a phonetic component; however, the phonetic component is linked to fire and heat since it represents a man burned alive.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hàn (han⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hon² / hon³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hàn
    • Wade–Giles: han⁴
    • Yale: hàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hann
    • Palladius: хань (xanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hon² / hon³
    • Yale: hón / hon
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hon² / hon³
    • Guangdong Romanization: hon² / hon³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔːn³⁵/, /hɔːn³³/

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• Middle Chinese: xanX, xanH

Rime
Character	暵	暵
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	寒 (61)	寒 (61)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	呼旱切	呼旰切
Baxter	xanX	xanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hɑnX/	/hɑnH/
Pan Wuyun	/hɑnX/	/hɑnH/
Shao Rongfen	/xɑnX/	/xɑnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hanX/	/hanH/
Li Rong	/xɑnX/	/xɑnH/
Wang Li	/xɑnX/	/xɑnH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xɑnX/	/xɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hǎn	hàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hon2	hon3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*n̥ˤarʔ/, /*[qʰ]ˤarʔ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hnaːnʔ/, /*hnaːns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	暵	暵
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hàn	hàn
Middle Chinese	‹ xanX ›	‹ xanH ›
Old Chinese	/*n̥ˁarʔ/	/*[qʰ]ˁarʔ-s/
English	scorch, burn	dry
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	暵	暵
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	4903	4906
Phonetic component	暵	暵
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	䍐	漢
Old Chinese	/*hnaːnʔ/	/*hnaːns/
Notes		與熯同源，曬乾堇

Definitions

暵

1. (literary) to dry by exposing to the sun
2. (literary) to wither; to become dry
3. (literary) dry; hot

Japanese

Kanji

暵

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): かん (kan)
• Kun: かわかす (kawakasu)

Korean

Hanja

暵 • (han) (hangeul 한, revised han, McCune–Reischauer han, Yale han)

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