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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)
Derived characters
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
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 1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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Character
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苑
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苑
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Reading #
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1/2
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2/2
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Modern Beijing (Pinyin)
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yuǎn
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yuǎn
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Middle Chinese
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‹ ʔjwonX ›
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‹ ʔjwonX ›
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Old Chinese
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/*oʔ/
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/*oʔ/
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English
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resentment
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park for hunting
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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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苑
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苑
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Reading #
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1/2
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2/2
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No.
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16292
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16303
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Phonetic component
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夗
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夗
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Rime group
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元
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元
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Rime subdivision
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3
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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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/*qons/
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Definitions
苑
- park; garden; pasture; preserve
- imperial garden; imperial hunting grounds
- (of arts, literature, etc.) center; circle; world
Compounds
Pronunciation 2
Definitions
苑
- a surname
- 苑麗瓊/苑丽琼 [Cantonese] ― jyun2 lai6 king4 ― Real name of Kingdom Yuen (Hong Kong actress)
Pronunciation 3
Definitions
苑
- † Alternative form of 菀 (yù, “lush; luxuriant”)
Pronunciation 4
Definitions
苑
- † Alternative form of 蘊 / 蕴 (“to accumulate; to gather”)
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
苑
(Jinmeiyō kanji)
- garden
- farm
- park
Readings
Definitions
For pronunciation and definitions of 苑 – see the following entry.
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(This term, 苑, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)
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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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