桓桓
huán​huán

mighty

桓 huán variety of tree

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 亘 represents the sound.

Components

木
木 Meaning component
mù tree
亘
亘 Sound component
gèn, xuān, gèng turn around, turn back

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarthwan[ɢ]ʷˤarpillar; martial-looking
hwanɦʷˤar (< *[ɢ]ʷˤar)烏桓 Wūhuán: Avars (W. Hàn)
Zhengzhangɡʷaːn
Unicodehuɑn

說文解字

亭郵表也。从木亘聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)