ฮวน

Thai

Etymology

Borrowed from Teochew 番 (huang1, “foreigner”).[1]

Pronunciation
Orthographic/Phonemicฮวน
ɦ w n
RomanizationPaiboonhuuan
Royal Institutehuan
(standard) IPA(key)/hua̯n˧/(R)

Noun

ฮวน • (huuan)

  1. alien, foreigner; (particularly) a person who isn't Chinese

References
  1. Joanna Rose McFarland (2021) “Chapter 3: Language Contact and Lexical Changes in Khmer and Teochew in Cambodia and Beyond”, in Chia, Caroline, Hoogervorst, Tom, editors, Sinophone Southeast Asia: Sinitic Voices across the Southern Seas (Chinese Overseas: History, Literature, and Society; 20 [Open Access])‎, Brill, →ISBN, page 103
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