蘊

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See also: 藴 and 蕴
蘊 U+860A, 蘊
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-860A
← 蘉
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 蘋 →

Translingual

Traditional 蘊
Shinjitai
(extended) 		藴
Simplified 蕴

Han character

蘊 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+16, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿女火廿 (TVFT), four-corner 44917, composition ⿱艹縕)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1068, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32434
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1534, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3323, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+860A

Chinese

trad. 蘊/藴
simp. 蕴
alternative forms 薀／蕰

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (𥁕) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
媪
蝹 *quːʔ, *qrun, *qun
溫 *quːn
𥁕 *quːn
輼 *quːn
蕰 *quːn, *qunʔ, *quns
殟 *quːn, *quːd
豱 *quːn
緼 *quːn, *qun, *qunʔ, *quns
韞 *quːn, *qunʔ
瘟 *quːn
揾 *quːns, *qunʔ, *quːd
氲 *qun
煴 *qun, *quns
馧 *qun, *quːd
蒀
藴 *qun, *qunʔ
褞 *qunʔ
醖
慍 *quns
蘊 *quns
腽 *quːd
榅 *quːd
嗢 *quːd, *qruːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *quns) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 縕.

Etymology 1

Compare 韞／韫 (yùn).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蘊
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 文 (59)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 於云切
Baxter 'jun
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʔɨun/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʔiun/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʔiuən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʔun/
Li
Rong 		/ʔiuən/
Wang
Li 		/ĭuən/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ʔi̯uən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yūn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		wan1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 蘊
Reading # 1/1
No. 12998
Phonetic
component 		昷
Rime
group 		文
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		醖
Old
Chinese 		/*quns/

Definitions

蘊

  1. (literary) to accumulate; to hold in store; to contain
  2. (literary) profoundness; profundity
  3. (Buddhism) skandha

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Definitions

蘊

  1. † mare's tail, water plants of the genus Hippuris

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai

藴

Kyūjitai

蘊

Kanji

蘊

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 藴)

  1. pile up
  2. deep inside
  3. aggregate

Readings

Compounds

Compounds

Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
蘊
うん
Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 蘊 (MC 'jun).

The Buddhist sense is a translation of Sanskrit स्कन्ध (skandha, “collection, grouping, heap”) or Pali khandha (“collection, heap”). See entry at 五蘊 (goun).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Affix

蘊(うん) • (un) 

  1. pile up; gather; accumulate
  2. depths; bottom; interior
  3. (Buddhism) skandha (aggregate)

Noun

蘊(うん) • (un) 

  1. abundance, plentifulness
  2. (Buddhism) a skandha (aggregate)
    Synonym: 陰 (on)
    Hyponyms: 色 (shiki), 受 (ju), 想 (sō), 行 (gyō), 識 (shiki)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
蘊
おさむ
Hyōgaiji
nanori

Proper noun

蘊(おさむ) • (Osamu) ←をさむ (wosamu)?

  1. a male given name

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

蘊 • (on) (hangeul 온, revised on, McCune–Reischauer on, Yale on)

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Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

蘊: Hán Nôm readings: uẩn, uẫn

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