苑

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See also: 菀
苑 U+82D1, 苑
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Translingual

Han character

苑 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+5, 9 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 8 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿弓戈山 (TNIU), four-corner 44212, composition ⿱艹夗)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1022, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30774
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1481, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3195, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+82D1

Chinese

trad. 苑
simp. # 苑
alternative forms 菀 “garden”

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (夗) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
涴 *qoːls, *qoːn, *qonʔ
埦 *qoːn
豌 *qoːn
剜 *qoːn
眢 *qoːn, *qon
蜿 *qoːn, *qon, *qonʔ
帵 *qoːn
碗 *qoːnʔ
椀 *qoːnʔ
盌 *qoːnʔ
腕 *qoːns
惋 *qoːns
捥 *qoːns
睕 *qoːns, *qonʔ, *qoːd
琬 *qoːns, *qonʔ
鴛 *quːn, *qon
鵷 *qon
惌 *qon, *qonʔ
宛 *qon, *qonʔ
怨 *qon, *qons
葾 *qon
夗 *qonʔ
婉 *qonʔ
菀 *qonʔ, *qud
苑 *qonʔ, *qons
踠 *qonʔ
畹 *qonʔ, *qons
倇 *qonʔ
晼 *qonʔ
黦 *qod, *qod, *qud
焥 *qoːd

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 苑
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 元 (66)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 於阮切
Baxter 'jwonX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʔʉɐnX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʔʷiɐnX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʔiuɐnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʔuanX/
Li
Rong 		/ʔiuɐnX/
Wang
Li 		/ĭwɐnX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ʔi̯wɐnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yuǎn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jyun2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 苑 苑
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yuǎn yuǎn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ʔjwonX › ‹ ʔjwonX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*oʔ/ /*oʔ/
English resentment park for hunting

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 苑 苑
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 16292 16303
Phonetic
component 		夗 夗
Rime
group 		元 元
Rime
subdivision 		3 3
Corresponding
MC rime 		婉
Old
Chinese 		/*qonʔ/ /*qons/

Definitions

苑

  1. park; garden; pasture; preserve
    1. imperial garden; imperial hunting grounds
  2. (of arts, literature, etc.) center; circle; world

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

苑

  1. a surname
    苑麗瓊／苑丽琼 [Cantonese]  ―  jyun2 lai6 king4   ―  Real name of Kingdom Yuen (Hong Kong actress)

Pronunciation 3

Definitions

苑

  1. † Alternative form of 菀 (yù, “lush; luxuriant”)

Pronunciation 4

Definitions

苑

  1. † Alternative form of 蘊／蕴 (“to accumulate; to gather”)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

苑

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. garden
  2. farm
  3. park

Readings

Definitions

Kanji in this term
苑
その
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 苑 – see the following entry.
【園その】2
an orchard, plantation
a garden, park (especially one with trees)
a place, location
a female given name
a surname
(This term, 苑, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

苑 • (won) (hangeul 원, revised won, McCune–Reischauer wŏn, Yale wen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

苑 (uyển, oản, oan)

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