Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 澣

Modern (Beijing) reading: huǎn

Preclassic Old Chinese: g(h)ʷārʔ (~ w(h)-?)

Classic Old Chinese: g(h)wā́n

Western Han Chinese: gwā́n (~ ɣ-)

Eastern Han Chinese: gwā́n (~ ɣ-)

Early Postclassic Chinese: gwā́n (~ ɣ-)

Middle Postclassic Chinese: gwā́n (~ ɣ-)

Late Postclassic Chinese: gwā́n (~ ɣ-)

Middle Chinese: ɣwấn

English meaning : to wash

Russian meaning[s]: 1) мыть(ся), обмывать(ся); 2) уст. декада

Shuowen gloss: **:濯衣垢也.從水.**聲.今**從完. [564]

Comments: The Old Chinese reconstruction is somewhat uncertain: labialised initials are not typical for this phonetic series. A reconstruction like *wārʔ or *whārʔ is thus also not excluded. Pek. 3d tone is irregular. Since Han (after *-r > -n) also sometimes written as .... (257 o).

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 85

Four-angle index: 2371

Karlgren code: 0140 m

Shijing occurrences: 2.3, 26.5

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *q(h)ʷār

Meaning: throw (into water), scatter

Chinese: 澣 g_ʷārʔ (~ w_-?) to wash.

Tibetan: skjur-ba to throw, throw into water, cast.

Lushai: vorʔ to scatter, throw up, toss.

Comments: Newari wā-. Sh. 160.