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Translingual
Han character
婉 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女十弓山 (VJNU), four-corner 43412, composition ⿰女宛)
- amiable, congenial
- restrained
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 264, character 12
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6396
- Dae Jaweon: page 531, character 4
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1062, character 2
- Unihan data for U+5A49
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 涴
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*qoːls, *qoːn, *qonʔ
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| 埦
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*qoːn
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| 豌
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*qoːn
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| 剜
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*qoːn
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| 眢
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*qoːn, *qon
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| 蜿
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*qoːn, *qon, *qonʔ
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| 帵
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*qoːn
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| 碗
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*qoːnʔ
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| 椀
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*qoːnʔ
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| 盌
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*qoːnʔ
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| 腕
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*qoːns
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| 惋
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*qoːns
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| 捥
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*qoːns
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| 睕
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*qoːns, *qonʔ, *qoːd
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| 琬
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*qoːns, *qonʔ
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| 鴛
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*quːn, *qon
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| 鵷
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*qon
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| 惌
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*qon, *qonʔ
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| 宛
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*qon, *qonʔ
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| 怨
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*qon, *qons
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| 葾
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*qon
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| 夗
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*qonʔ
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| 婉
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*qonʔ
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| 菀
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*qonʔ, *qud
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| 苑
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*qonʔ, *qons
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| 踠
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*qonʔ
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| 畹
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*qonʔ, *qons
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| 倇
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*qonʔ
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| 晼
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*qonʔ
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| 黦
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*qod, *qod, *qud
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| 焥
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*qoːd
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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婉
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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wǎn
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ ʔjwonX ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*oʔ/
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| English
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beautiful
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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婉
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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16290
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Phonetic
component
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夗
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Rime
group
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元
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Rime
subdivision
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3
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Corresponding
MC rime
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婉
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Old
Chinese
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/*qonʔ/
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Definitions
婉
- (literary) gentle; tender; tactful
- (literary) beautiful; graceful; elegant
Compounds
References
Japanese
Kanji
婉
(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)
- graceful
Readings
Compounds
Korean
Hanja
婉 (eum 완 (wan))
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Vietnamese
Han character
婉: Hán Nôm readings: uyển, uốn
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