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huan3Mathews: 2242
Dictionary Definition
No detailed glossary definition available for this character.
Concordance & Context (3 occurrences)
Xiao Gua★
letting go, loosening, slackening, release
Stats: 61.X
Za Gua
letting go, loosening, slackening, release
Stats: 61.X
Xiang Zhuan
(to, while) delay, stay, postpone, slow (ing)
澤上有風，中孚。君子以議獄緩死。
Over the pond there is wind
The truth within
The noble young one, accordingly,
considers legal process while delaying execution
Stats: 120+9Hapax Legomenon
Homophones (huan)
桓huan2(all) around, surrounding, encirling, delaying患huan4suffering, calamity, misery, affliction, grief渙huan4(a, the) diffusion, sublimation, distillation, evaporation, rarifaction, broadcast (as seed); [change of state]; (to) disperse, scatter, distribute, disseminate, dispel, break up, disintegrate, dissolve, clear up, relax, relieve, melt, vanish, diffuse, evaporate, flow in scattered directions, rarify; fade, relent, give way, succumb (s, ed, ing); (to be) slack, broad, swelling, wide, scattered, diffuse, evanescent, dispersed, volatile;
Previous桓 huan2
Nexthuan4 患
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