浣

澣

huàn

完 + 氵

Definitions

huàn to wash; to rinse; any of three 10-day division of the month (during Tang dynasty); Taiwan pr. [huǎn]; also pr. [wǎn]

huàn variant of 浣[huàn]

Etymology

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 完 represents the sound. Simplified form of 澣.

Semantic: 氵 Phonetic: 完

About

浣 is a phonosemantic compound: 氵 (water) gives the meaning, while 完 (which typically means 'completion') provides the sound. It originally meant washing or rinsing, particularly laundry in water, and is the simplified form of 澣. In the Tang dynasty, officials had a rest day every ten days for bathing and laundering, so 浣 also came to mean a ten-day period or a third of a month.