See also:
U+8408, 萈
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8408

[U+8407]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8409]

Translingual

Alternative forms

  • In Taiwan and Hong Kong, the upper component of this character is (ram's horn), which is the original form found in the Shuowen Jiezi dictionary.
  • In mainland China, the upper component of this character is (grass radical) which is the same form found in the Kangxi dictionary.

Han character

(Kangxi radical 140, +8, 12 strokes in traditional Chinese, 11 strokes in mainland China, cangjie input 廿月山戈 (TBUI), four-corner 44213, composition (G) or (T))

Usage notes

This character is not to be confused with visually similar (U+83A7) which is based on the grass radical and does not have an additional dot in the component .

Derived characters

  • 𦏊, 𡅽, , 𡅻 (Contains (ram's horn) for Taiwan/Hong Kong and (grass radical) for mainland China and other regions)
  • 𬪖 (Contains grass radical)
  • 𬉛 (Contains 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

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Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
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
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (62)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
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
Reading # 1/1
No. 5348
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡoːn/

Definitions

  1. goat with thin horns
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