還
還 — hwan, seon
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 돌아올 환, 돌 선
- Romanization
- hwan, seon
- English
- still, yet, also, besides
- Mandarin
- hái
- Japanese on'yomi
- カン, セン, ゲン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- かえ.る
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #910 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 辵 (162, 13 residual)
- Phonetic component
- 睘
- Unicode
- U+9084
Parts that make up 還
- 睘 놀라서볼 경sound 놀라 크게 뜬 눈‘경·환’ 계열의 소리
- ⻌ variant of 辶 네거리와 발가고 오는 일, 길 위의 움직임
How 還 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 還 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 辵, 睘.
Korean example words with 還
- 환미還米 Korean gloss: 환곡의 쌀
- 환급還給 Korean gloss: 도로 돌려줌
- 환세還稅 Korean gloss: 이미 낸 세금을 되돌려 줌
- 환속還屬 Korean gloss: 이전의 소속으로 다시 돌려보냄
- 유환宥還 Korean gloss: 귀양 갔던 죄인이 용서를 받고 돌아옴
- 환매還買 Korean gloss: 일단 남에게 팔았던 물건을 도로 사들임
- 환지還紙 Korean gloss: 못 쓰게 된 종이를 다시 떠서 만든 종이
- 속환贖還 Korean gloss: 돈이나 물건 따위로 대갚음을 하고 어떤 것을 도로 찾아옴
- 모환牟還 Korean gloss: 관아에서 백성들에게 보리쌀을 꾸어 주었다가 이자를 붙여 돌려받던 고리대
- 환갑還甲 Korean gloss: 육십갑자의 ‘갑(甲)’으로 되돌아온다는 뜻으로, 예순한 살을 이르는 말
- 환자還子 Korean gloss: 조선 시대에, 곡식을 사창(社倉)에 저장하였다가 백성들에게 봄에 꾸어 주고 가을에 이자를 붙여 거두던 일. 또는 그 곡식
- 보환하다報還 Korean gloss: 갚아 돌려주다
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 還
- 返還へんかん return; restoration
- 帰還きかん return (home); repatriation; feedback (in an electronic circuit, biological system, etc.)
- 還元かんげん restoration; return; reduction
- 償還しょうかん repayment; redemption; amortization
- 還付かんぷ return; restoration; refund
- 送還そうかん sending home; repatriation; deportation
- 奪還だっかん recapture; retaking; recovery
- 還暦かんれき kanreki; one's 60th birthday (or 61st in the traditional age reckoning system) when one has lived through a full sexagenary cycle
- 還流かんりゅう return current; reflux; back flow
- 生還せいかん returning alive; surviving; reaching the home plate
- 往還おうかん traffic; coming and going; highway
- 還俗げんぞく return to secular life (of a monk); secularization; secularisation
Characters sharing the phonetic 睘
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.
Other hanja read “환”
Other hanja with radical 辵
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences