Chinese Character Wiki
讙

huān

cheer

Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 雚 represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

雚 sound component

雚  Sound component

guàn, huán

  

heron

Evolution

讙 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
讙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
讙 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
讙 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
讙 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

𬤰 (讙) 

huān

cheer; noise, noisy

欢 (讙) 

huān

hubbub; clamor; variant of 歡|欢[huān]

Most common words with 讙
Freq.
Word
Meaning

喜欢

to like

欢迎

to welcome

欢乐

gaiety

欢

joyous

狂欢

party

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʷʰar

xjwon

huān

clamor, shout


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 96.4921% of movies

148th most common character in movies

685th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

24

Simplified

𬤰

Unicode

U+8B99

Shuowen

“讙，譁也。从言，雚聲。”


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