寰

寰	U+5BF0, 寰 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5BF0

Translingual

Han character

寰 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 十田中女 (JWLV), four-corner 3073₂, composition ⿱宀睘)

Derived characters

𤃆, 𪼮

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 292, character 17
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7344
Dae Jaweon: page 579, character 5
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 956, character 2
Unihan data for U+5BF0

Chinese

simp. and trad.		寰
2nd round simp.		环

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 寰
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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, *ɡʷeːns) : semantic 宀 (“roof”) + phonetic 睘 (OC *ɡʷeŋ)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): huán (huan²)

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): waan⁴
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): huang² / huong²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khoân / hoân

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
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /huaŋ¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: huong²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /huoŋ¹³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khoân
  - Tâi-lô: khuân
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qoaan
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kʰuan²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoân
  - Tâi-lô: huân
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoaan
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Xiamen): /huan²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /huan¹³/

Note:

khoân - vernacular;
hoân - literary.

Middle Chinese: hwaen, hwenH

Rime
Character	寰	寰
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (��)	匣 (33)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	刪 (70)	先 (86)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	II	IV
Fanqie	戸關切	黃練切
Baxter	hwaen	hwenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠuan/	/ɦwen^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷᵚan/	/ɦʷen^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɐn/	/ɣuɛn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwaɨn/	/ɦwɛn^H/
Li Rong	/ɣuan/	/ɣuen^H/
Wang Li	/ɣwan/	/ɣiwen^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣwan/	/ɣiwen^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huán	xuàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	waan⁴	jyun⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷraːn/, /*ɡʷeːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	寰	寰
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	16233	16256
Phonetic component	睘	睘
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	1	2
Corresponding MC rime	還
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷraːn/	/*ɡʷeːns/
Notes	見穀樑傳	古文縣字

Definitions

寰

Extensive region

Compounds

人寰 (rénhuán)
塵寰／尘寰 (chénhuán)
威震寰宇
寰內／寰内
寰區／寰区
寰域
寰宇 (huányǔ)
寰宇記／寰宇记
慘絕人寰／惨绝人寰 (cǎnjuérénhuán)
撒手人寰 (sāshǒurénhuán)
撒手塵寰／撒手尘寰 (sāshǒuchénhuán)
游戲塵寰／游戏尘寰
瀛寰 (yínghuán)
譽滿寰中／誉满寰中

References

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

寰

(Hyōgai kanji)

world; land

Readings

Go-on: げん (gen)^{←げん (gen, historical)}^{←ぐゑん (gwen, ancient)}
Kan-on: かん (kan)^{←くわん (kwan, historical)}

Compounds

References

白川静 (Shirakawa Shizuka) (2014) “寰”, in 字通 (Jitsū)‎^[1] (in Japanese), popular edition, Tōkyō: Heibonsha, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

寰 (eum 환 (hwan))

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Vietnamese

Han character

寰: Hán Nôm readings: hoàn

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References

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