Si Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Water (shuǐ)
Huan
Kangxi strokes: 15
Page 647, Entry 12
According to Expanded Rhymes (Guangyun) and Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it is pronounced huan (falling tone). Manhuan means blurred or difficult to distinguish. In the Biography of Yang Xiong in the History of the Former Han Dynasty (Qian Han Shu), it is stated: For its excess is manhuan. The commentary explains: Manhuan means the appearance of being blurred and indistinct, similar to the meaning of hazy or undefined.
Additionally, according to Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) it is pronounced huan (rising tone), and according to Corrected Rhymes (Zhengyun) it is pronounced huan (rising tone). Furthermore, according to Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Collection (Yunhui), and Corrected Rhymes (Zhengyun), it is pronounced huan (falling tone). The meaning is the same.