倦

倦 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人火手山 (OFQU), four-corner 2921₂, composition ⿰亻卷 (GTKV) or ⿰亻巻 (J))

1. be tired of, weary

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 108, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 788
• Dae Jaweon: page 231, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 183, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5026

Historical forms of the character 倦
Small seal script s05897 Transcribed ancient scripts L36738 L23040 L23041 L23042 L23043 L23044
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

In the Chu form, a phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡrons) : semantic 人 (“person”) + phonetic 龹 (). In the Small Seal Script form, a phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡrons) : semantic 人 (“person”) + phonetic 卷 (OC *ɡron, *kronʔ, *krons, *ɡonʔ).

Compare Tibetan ཀྱོར་ཀྱོར (kyor kyor, “weak; feeble”), Tibetan ཁྱོར་བ (khyor ba, “to stumble; to move totteringly”), Tibetan འཁྱོར་བ ('khyor ba, “to stagger, to reel”) (Bodman, 1980). Cognate with 痯 (OC *koːnʔ, *koːns, “exhausted”) (Schuessler, 2007).

倦

1. tired; weary

   疲倦  ―  píjuàn  ―  exhausted; fatigued

   厭倦／厌倦  ―  yànjuàn  ―  fed up; bored

   • 子曰：「默而識之，學而不厭，誨人不倦，何有於我哉？」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     子曰：「默而识之，学而不厌，诲人不倦，何有于我哉？」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Zǐ yuē: “Mò ér shí zhī, xué ér bù yàn, huì rén bù juàn, hé yǒu yú wǒ zāi?”

     The Master said, "The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied - which one of these things belongs to me?"

Shinjitai (extended)	Shinjitai (extended)	倦󠄀 倦+󠄀? (Adobe-Japan1)
倦󠄂 倦+󠄂? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
Kyūjitai	倦
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(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. in fatigue
2. languor
3. grow weary of, lose interest in

• Go-on: げん (gen)^{←げん (gen, historical)←ぐゑん (gwen, ancient)}
• Kan-on: けん (ken)^{←けん (ken, historical)←くゑん (kwen, ancient)}
• Kun: つかれる (tsukareru, 倦れる)、うむ (umu, 倦む)

• 倦(けん)厭(えん) (ken'en)
• 倦(けん)憩(けい) (kenkei)
• 倦(けん)色(しょく) (kenshoku)
• 倦(けん)惰(だ) (kenda)
• 倦(けん)怠(たい) (kentai)
• 倦(けん)憊(ぱい) (kenpai)

• 倦きる, 倦る
• 倦ねる

From Middle Chinese 倦 (MC gjwenH).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

倦

Wikisource

倦 (eumhun 게으를 권 (geeureul gwon))

1. hanja form^? of 권 (“languor”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

倦: Hán Nôm readings: quyện, cuộn

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