Chou Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Mouth (kǒu)
Character: huan
Kangxi strokes: 21
Page 214, Entry 27
Guangyun (Guangyun): Pronounced huan. Jiyun (Jiyun): Pronounced huan; reading is the same as huan. Yupian (Yupian): The same as huan (to call). Book of Rites by Dai (Daidai Liji): Animals that chew, swallow, possess nine orifices, and are born from a womb. Jiyun (Jiyun): Sometimes written in a variant form (huan). Also, Jiyun (Jiyun): Pronounced tuan; reading is the same as tuan. Meaning to summon or call out. Also, Jiyun (Jiyun) and Zhengyun (Zhengyun): Pronounced huan; reading is the same as huan. The same as huan (to rejoice/cry out). Meaning to shout. Zhengyun (Zhengyun): Describes the appearance of noisy and boisterous clamor. Xunzi (Xunzi), Chapter on Negating the Twelve Philosophers: Those ignorant scholars of the secular world clamor loudly without knowing where their own errors lie. History of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Treatise on Rituals and Ceremonies: Thereupon, actors took the role of the Fangxiang spirit, dancing and shouting together with twelve kinds of beasts.