桓

huán

variety of tree; pillar or post; surname or posthumous name

Meaning

  • Botanical: A specific variety of tree.
  • Architectural: A sturdy upright support, such as a pillar, post, or railing (e.g., those flanking a gate or supporting a roof structure).
  • Onomastic: Used as a family name or in posthumous titles (e.g., Duke Huan), where it denotes stability, prominence, and "uprightness."

Translator notes

The semantic range of the glyph generally moves from the material (the tree) to the object (the pillar) to an abstract quality (stability/uprightness). In contexts involving structural descriptions or persons of high status, the botanical meaning can likely be discounted.

Decontextualized translator aid. This page describes plausible lexical range; it does not choose what the glyph means in a particular passage.