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See also:
U+60B6, 悶
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-60B6

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 61, +8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 日弓心 (ANP), four-corner 77337, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1333, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10729
  • Dae Jaweon: page 722, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4291, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+60B6

Chinese

trad.
simp.
alternative forms

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *mɯːns) : phonetic (OC *mɯːn) + semantic

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-mun (dark) (STEDT). Cognate with (OC *hmɯːn, “dusk; dark”), Tibetan མུན་པ (mun pa, darkness), Burmese မှုန် (hmun, dim; gloomy).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • mèn - literal (“bored, gloomy, depressed”);
  • mēn - vernacular (“stuffy”).

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (55)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter mwonH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/muənH/
Pan
Wuyun
/muonH/
Shao
Rongfen
/muənH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/mwənH/
Li
Rong
/muənH/
Wang
Li
/muənH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/muənH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
mèn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
mun6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 8962
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mɯːns/

Definitions

  1. gloomy; depressed; melancholy
  2. bored
  3. stuffy

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
もん
Hyōgai
goon

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Noun

(もん) (mon

  1. agony

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun 답답할 (dapdaphal min))

  1. hanja form? of (agony)

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Việt readings: muộn[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8], môn[5]
: Nôm readings: muốn[1][7][8], mụn[2]

  1. chữ Hán form of muộn (sad, sorrowful).
  2. Nôm form of muốn (to want, to desire).

References