轘

轘	U+8F58, 轘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8F58

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[U+8F57]

CJK Unified Ideographs

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[U+8F59]

Translingual

Han character

轘 (Kangxi radical 159, 車+13, 20 strokes, cangjie input 十十田中女 (JJWLV), four-corner 5603₂, composition ⿰車睘)

tear asunder between chariots

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1249, character 10
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38551
Dae Jaweon: page 1728, character 1
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3558, character 11
Unihan data for U+8F58

Chinese

trad.		轘
simp.		𮝹

Glyph origin

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

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, *ɡʷraːns): semantic 車 (“carriage”) + phonetic 睘 (OC *ɡʷeŋ)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): huàn, huán (huan⁴, huan²)

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄢˋ, ㄏㄨㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): waan⁶
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): huang² / huong² / huang⁵ / huong⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: huàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: huàn
  - Wade–Giles: huan⁴
  - Yale: hwàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huann
  - Palladius: хуань (xuanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯än⁵¹/
- (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: waan⁶
  - Yale: waahn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: waan⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: wan⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /waːn²²/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: huang²
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: huáng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /huaŋ¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: huong²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /huoŋ²⁴/
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: huang⁵
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: huāng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /huaŋ¹¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: huong⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /huoŋ²¹/

Note:

huang2/huong2 - 轘轅;
huang5/huong5 - 轘刑.

Middle Chinese: hwaen, hwaenH

Rime
Character	轘	轘
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	刪 (70)	刪 (70)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	II	II
Fanqie	戸關切	胡慣切
Baxter	hwaen	hwaenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠuan/	/ɦˠuan^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷᵚan/	/ɦʷᵚan^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɐn/	/ɣuɐn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwaɨn/	/ɦwaɨn^H/
Li Rong	/ɣuan/	/ɣuan^H/
Wang Li	/ɣwan/	/ɣwan^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣwan/	/ɣwan^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huán	huàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	waan⁴	waan⁶

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

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	轘	轘
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	16238	16241
Phonetic component	睘	睘
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	還	患
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷraːn/	/*ɡʷraːns/

Definitions

轘

A method in ancient China where a criminal is tied to a chariot to be torn to death.

Compounds

轘磔 / 𮝹磔
轘蕕 / 𮝹莸
轘轅 / 𮝹辕

References

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

轘

(Hyōgai kanji)

tearing someone in two by tying their legs to two carts moving in opposite directions (form of medieval punishment)

Readings

On (unclassified): かん (kan)、げん (gen)、けん (ken)
Kun: くるまざき (kurumazaki)

Korean

Hanja

轘 • (hwan) (hangeul 환, revised hwan, McCune–Reischauer hwan, Yale hwan)

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