# 爨

| 爨 | U+7228, &#29224; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7228 |
| ← 爧 [U+7227] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 爩 → [U+7229] |
| 爨 | U+2F920, &#194848; CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F920 |
| ← 𤎫 [U+2F91F] | CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement | 爵 → [U+2F921] |

## Translingual
### Han character

爨 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+25, 29 strokes, cangjie input 竹月木木火 (HBDDF), four-corner 7780$_9$, composition ⿱⿱⿴𦥑同冖⿳林大火(GHK) or ⿱⿱⿴𦥑⿵冂〒冖⿳林大火(T) or ⿱⿱⿴𦥑⿵冂⿱一コ冖⿳林大火(J))
* oven, cooking stove
* cook

#### Derived characters

* 𣡿, 𥎤, 𥎥, 𩎑

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 688, character 21
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19648
* Dae Jaweon: page 1101, character 8
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2251, character 3
* Unihan data for U+7228
* Unihan data for U+2F920

## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): cuàn (cuan$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄢˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun$^3$
* Eastern Min (BUC): chuáng
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): cuang$^4$ / cuong$^4$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhoàn
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: cuàn
*** Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄢˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: cuàn
*** Wade–Giles: tsʻuan$^4$
*** Yale: tswàn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuann
*** Palladius: цуань (cuanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰu̯än⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: cyun$^3$
*** Yale: chyun
*** Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: qun$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰyːn³³/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: chuáng
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰuɑŋ²¹³/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: cuang$^4$
*** Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: chua̍ng
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰuaŋ⁴²/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: cuong$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰuoŋ⁴²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhoàn
*** Tâi-lô: tshuàn
*** Phofsit Daibuun: zhoaxn
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰuan⁴¹/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰuan²¹/
* Middle Chinese: tshwanH, tshwan
Rime :
| Character | 爨 | 爨 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 清 (14) | 清 (14) |
| Final (韻) | 桓 (62) | 桓 (62) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Closed |
| Division (等) | I | I |
| Fanqie | 七亂切 | 七丸切 |
| Baxter | tshwanH | tshwan |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /t͡sʰuɑn$^H$/ | /t͡sʰuɑn/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /t͡sʰʷɑn$^H$/ | /t͡sʰʷɑn/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡sʰuɑn$^H$/ | /t͡sʰuɑn/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /t͡sʰwan$^H$/ | /t͡sʰwan/ |
| Li Rong | /t͡sʰuɑn$^H$/ | /t͡sʰuɑn/ |
| Wang Li | /t͡sʰuɑn$^H$/ | /t͡sʰuɑn/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /t͡sʰuɑn$^H$/ | /t͡sʰuɑn/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | cuàn | cuān |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | cyun$^3$ | cyun$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*sʰoːn/, /*sʰoːns/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 爨 | 爨 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 1873 | 1874 |
| Phonetic component | 爨 | 爨 |
| Rime group | 元 | 元 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | | 竄 |
| Old Chinese | /*sʰoːn/ | /*sʰoːns/ |
| Notes | 見周禮 | |

### Definitions

爨
* to cook
* cooker; cookstove
* a surname
* Short for 爨體／爨体 (“a style of calligraphy popular in 3rd-4th century AD, considered transitional in the development from clerical script to regular script”).

#### Compounds

* 五花爨弄
* 分爨 (fēncuàn)
* 另起煙爨 / 另起烟爨
* 同居各爨
* 同爨
* 執爨 / 执爨
* 析爨
* 析骨以爨
* 析骸以爨 (xīháiyǐcuàn)
* 樵蘇不爨 / 樵苏不爨
* 炊爨 (chuīcuàn)
* 炊金爨玉
* 炊骨爨骸
* 煙爨 / 烟爨
* 爨下
* 爨婦 / 爨妇
* 爨婢 (cuànbì)
* 爨室 (cuànshì)
* 爨寶子碑 / 爨宝子碑
* 爨底下 (Cuàndǐxià)
* 爨桂炊玉
* 爨體 / 爨体
* 爨龍顏碑 / 爨龙颜碑
* 異爨 / 异爨
* 稱柴而爨 / 称柴而爨
* 稱薪而爨 / 称薪而爨
* 踏爨
* 蹈爨

### References

* “爨”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “爨”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 41.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* boil, cook

#### Readings

* Go-on: さん (san)
* Kan-on: さん (san)
* Kun: かしぐ (kashigu, 爨ぐ)、かまど (kamado, 爨)

#### Compounds

* 御爨(おさん) (osan)
* 炊爨(すいさん) (suisan)

## Korean
### Hanja

爨 (eumhun 부뚜막 찬 (buttumak chan))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

爨: Hán Nôm readings: thoán
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