Wu Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Jade (yù)
Huan
Kangxi strokes: 25
Page 745, Entry 30
Pronounced huan.
According to the Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi), a huan-gui is a jade tablet held by a duke. The character is composed of the radicals for jade and offer, forming an ideogram. According to the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it is also written in the variant form huan. It is also used in personal names. In the Discourses on Fate (Bianminglun) by Liu Jun, it is written that in recent generations there was Liu Huan from the Pei state, whose younger brother was Jin; both were elite scholars of their time.
According to the Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun), in lexicographical books, it is also pronounced nie, referring to a horse bit.
According to the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), pronounced xian. It refers to a huan-gui jade tablet.