Chinese surname · rank 378
宦
宦 is read as huàn.
huàn
Simplified and traditional 宦
officialdom, government official
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Time: Song textual or Bai Jia Xing layer, 960-1279 CE
Place: Dongyang commandery prestige geography around modern Jinhua, Zhejiang; later documented communities in Jiangsu Danyang and Guizhou Zunyi surname-book notes
Origin note
Huan/宦 is presented here as a status or official-service surname. The repeated surname-book account says the surname should be read through shihuan, meaning official service or officialdom, not through the later common association with eunuchs. Because the graph 宦 also has an eunuch sense in dictionaries, the page keeps that dictionary sense separate and does not treat eunuchs as the surname origin. The Dongyang commandery note supplies a traditional prestige geography, with later surname-book references to communities in Danyang and Zunyi.
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