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員

員

員 U+54E1, 員
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54E1
← 哠
[U+54E0] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 哢 →
[U+54E2]
See also: 员

Translingual

Han character

員 (radical 30 口+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 口月山金 (RBUC), four-corner 60806, composition ⿱口貝)

References

  • KangXi: page 189, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3633
  • Dae Jaweon: page 409, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 628, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+54E1

Chinese

trad. 員
simp. 员

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 員
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (員) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
員 *ɢon, *ɢun
圓 *ɢon
塤 *qʰon
損 *sqʰuːnʔ
縜 *ɢun
隕 *ɢunʔ
殞 *ɢunʔ
溳 *ɢunʔ, *ɢun
磒 *ɢunʔ
霣 *ɢunʔ
愪 *ɢunʔ, *ɢun
勛 *qʰun
鄖 *ɢun
篔 *ɢun
貟 *ɢun, *ɢuns
韻 *ɢʷɯns

Pronunciation 1

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 員
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yuán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hjwen ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷ<r>en/
English circle; round

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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 員
Reading # 1/2
No. 16199
Phonetic
component		 員
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 貟
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢon/
Notes 甲金文象鼎口爲圓初文

Definitions

員

  1. member
  2. personnel; staff member

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 員
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 文 (59)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 王分切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦɨun/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦiun/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣiuən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦun/
Li
Rong		 /ɣiuən/
Wang
Li		 /ɣĭuən/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯uən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yún
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 員
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yún
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hjun ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ]ʷə[n]/
English (a particle)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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 員
Reading # 2/2
No. 16215
Phonetic
component		 員
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 雲
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢun/
Notes 貟字注説文作員

Definitions

員

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Compounds

Pronunciation 3

Definitions

員

  1. A surname​.

Japanese

Kanji

員

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Suffix

員 ‎(hiragana いん, romaji -in)

  1. member

Korean

Hanja

員 • ‎(won) (hangeul 원, revised won, McCune-Reischauer wŏn)

  1. Hanja form? of 원, “person, personnel, employee, member”.

Vietnamese

Han character

員 (viên, von)

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