環

環 (radical 96, 玉+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 一土田中女 (MGWLV), four-corner 1613₂, composition ⿰𤣩睘)

• 𡈵

• 环 (Simplified Chinese)

• KangXi: page 743, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21287
• Dae Jaweon: page 1152, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1140, character 5
• Unihan data for U+74B0

Historical forms of the character 環
Western Zhou	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
Small seal script s00138 Transcribed ancient scripts L04052
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡʷraːn) : semantic 玉 (“jade”) + phonetic 睘 (OC *ɡʷeŋ).

環

1. circle; ring
2. round
3. to surround
4. (mathematics) ring

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. circle, ring, wheel

• Go-on: げん (gen)^{←げん (gen, historical)←ぐゑん (gwen, ancient)}
• Kan-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)^{←くわん (kwan, historical)}
• Kun: わ (wa, 環); たまき (tamaki, 環); ゆびまき (yubimaki)
• Nanori: たま (tama)

From Middle Chinese 環 (hwæn).

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) か​ん [káꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1][2]
  • IPA^(key): [kã̠ɴ]

環 (hiragana かん, rōmaji kan, historical hiragana くわん)

1. ring
2. (algebra) ring

環 (hiragana かん, rōmaji kan-, historical hiragana くわん)

1. circum-

From Old Japanese.

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) わ​ [wáꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ɰᵝa̠]

• 輪

環 (hiragana わ, rōmaji wa)

1. a ring or circle shape (such as a ring for a finger, or Saturn's rings)
2. a hoop (such as for a barrel)
3. a wheel (as of a vehicle)

• (circle shape): 丸 (まる) (maru), 円 (えん)形 (けい) (enkei)
• (finger ring): 指輪 (ゆびわ) (yubiwa)
• (barrel hoop): 箍 (たが) (taga)
• (vehicle wheel): 車 (しゃ)輪 (りん) (sharin)

Originally a compound of 手 (ta, “hand”, ancient combining form of modern te) +‎ 巻き (maki, “winding, wrapping”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 巻く maku, “to wind, to wrap”), from the way that the bracelet would be worn around the wrist.

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) た​まき [táꜜmàkì] (Atamadaka – [1])[1][2]
  • IPA^(key): [ta̠ma̠kʲi]

• 手纏, 鐶

環 (hiragana たまき, rōmaji tamaki)

1. an ancient bracelet strung with jewels or bells and worn at the elbow
2. a longer tube-shaped gauntlet to protect the hand during archery
3. (obsolete) an ancient jewel or other stone in the shape of a ring

• (archery gauntlet): 手覆 (たおおい) (taōi)
• (ring): 指輪 (ゆびわ) (yubiwa), 環 (yubimaki) (see below)

Originally a compound of 指 (yubi, “finger”, ancient combining form of modern te) +‎ 巻き (maki, “winding, wrapping”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 巻く maku, “to wind, to wrap”), from the way that the ring would be worn around a finger.

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [jɯ̟ᵝbʲima̠kʲi]

• 指巻, 鐶

環 (hiragana ゆびまき, rōmaji yubimaki)

1. (obsolete) an ancient jewel or other stone in the shape of a ring

• 指輪 (ゆびわ) (yubiwa), 環 (tamaki) (see above)

環 • (hwan) (hangeul 환)

1. jade ring or bracelet
2. ring

環 (hoàn)

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