Character: 還
Modern (Beijing) reading: huán hái
Preclassic Old Chinese: whrēn
Classic Old Chinese: whrēn
Western Han Chinese: whrjān
Eastern Han Chinese: whriān
Early Postclassic Chinese: whiẹ̄n
Middle Postclassic Chinese: whiẹ̄n
Late Postclassic Chinese: whiẹ̄n
Middle Chinese: ɣwạn
English meaning : (to come full circle): to turn round, return
Russian meaning[s]: 1) возвратиться, вернуться; восстановиться; 2) возвратить, вернуть; уплатить; 3) Хуань (фамилия); [hái] 1) еще; все еще; сравнительно еще...; 2) все-таки, все же; [xuán] вращаться, вм. 旋
Shuowen gloss: 復也.從**.**聲. [72]
Comments: Also read *when, MC zjwen, Mand. xuán 'to turn around; agile'. OC *whrēn is obviously the same word as 環 *whrēn 'ring'. Rhymes and xie-sheng point unambiguously to *-ēn, thus MC -ạn is irregular (-ạ̈n would be normally expected) - see, however, below.
Radical: 162
Four-angle index: 6594
Karlgren code: 0256 k-m
Vietnamese reading: hoàn
Dali Bai: xua5
Shijing occurrences: 13.3, 39.3
