還
See also: 还
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Translingual
Han character
還 (radical 162, 辵+13, 17 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 16 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 卜田中女 (YWLV), four-corner 36303, composition ⿺辶睘)
References
- KangXi: page 1266, character 23
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39174
- Dae Jaweon: page 1764, character 12
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3888, character 2
- Unihan data for U+9084
Chinese
trad. | 還 | |
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simp. | 还* |
Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 還 | |||
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Western Zhou | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
Bronze inscriptions | Chu Slip and silk script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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Characters in the same phonetic series (睘) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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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, OC *ɡʷraːn, *sɢʷan) : semantic 辵 (“walk”) + phonetic 睘 (OC *ɡʷeŋ) – to go back; to return.
Etymology
- “to return”
- From Austroasiatic; compare Khmer រង្វាន់ (rŭəngvŏən, “reward; award; bonus”) (Schuessler, 2007). Probably related to 環 (OC *ɡʷraːn, “ring; to encircle”) (ibid.).
Pronunciation 1
Definitions
還
Compounds
Derived terms from 還
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Pronunciation 2
Definitions
還
- still; yet; indicates that the phenomenon or observation still exists or the action is still ongoing
- even more; indicates an increase from a certain level or a supplement
- (before adjectives, mostly positive) passably; (surprisingly) quite
- (often in rhetorical questions) indicates condition and contrast, interchangeable with 都; even
- indicates unexpectedness; really
- indicates past events; emphasising earliness
Synonyms
Compounds
Derived terms from 還
Pronunciation 3
Definitions
還
- † Alternative form of 旋 (xuán, “to rotate; to turn around”).
- † nimble; agile
- † immediately
Japanese
Kanji
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Korean
Vietnamese
Han character
還 (hoàn)
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