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園
園
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See also: 园
Translingual
Han character
園 (radical 31 囗+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 田土口女 (WGRV), four-corner 60232, composition ⿴囗袁)
References
- KangXi: page 220, character 8
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4818
- Dae Jaweon: page 451, character 13
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 723, character 4
- Unihan data for U+5712
Chinese
| trad. | 園 | |
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| simp. | 园 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 園
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| Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (袁) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 薳 | *ɢʷalʔ |
| 袁 | *ɢʷan |
| 園 | *ɢʷan |
| 轅 | *ɢʷan |
| 猿 | *ɢʷan |
| 榬 | *ɢʷan |
| 溒 | *ɢʷan |
| 遠 | *ɢʷanʔ, *ɢʷans |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɢʷan) : semantic 囗 (“fence”) + phonetic 袁 (OC *ɢʷan).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun4
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yèn / yàn
- Min Dong (BUC): huòng
- Min Nan (POJ): hn̂g / hûiⁿ / oân
- Wu (Wiktionary): hhyoe (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄩㄢˊ
- Wade-Giles: yüan2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuan
- IPA (key): /y̯ɛn³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing, erhua-ed)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄩㄢˊㄦ
- Wade-Giles: yüanrh2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yual
- IPA (key): /ɥɑɻ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: jyun4
- Yale: yùhn
- Cantonese Pinyin: jyn4
- IPA (key): /jyːn²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yèn
- Hakka Romanization System: ienˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: yan2
- IPA: /i̯en¹¹/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yàn
- Hakka Romanization System: (r)ianˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: yan2
- IPA: /(j)i̯an¹¹/
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: huòng
- IPA (key): /huoŋ⁵³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Kaohsiung, Taipei, Tainan, Taichung, Lukang, Sanxia, Yilan, Kinmen, Magong, Hsinchu)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hn̂g
- Tâi-lô: hn̂g
- Phofsit Daibuun: hngg
- IPA (Xiamen): /hŋ̍²⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /hŋ̍²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /hŋ̍²³/
- IPA (Taipei): /hŋ̍²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Yilan)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hûiⁿ
- Tâi-lô: huînn
- Phofsit Daibuun: hvuii
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /huĩ¹³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oân
- Tâi-lô: uân
- Phofsit Daibuun: oaan
- IPA (Xiamen): /uan²⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /uan²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /uan¹³/
- IPA (Taipei): /uan²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /uan²³/
- Note: hn̂g/hûiⁿ - vernacular; oân - literary.
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Kaohsiung, Taipei, Tainan, Taichung, Lukang, Sanxia, Yilan, Kinmen, Magong, Hsinchu)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: hhyoe (T3)
- IPA (key): /ɦyø²³/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 園 |
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| Mandarin | Beijing | /yan³⁵/ |
| Harbin | /yan²⁴/ | |
| Tianjin | /yan⁴⁵/ | |
| Jinan | /yã⁴²/ | |
| Qingdao | /yã⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /yan⁴²/ | |
| Xi'an | /yã²⁴/ | |
| Xining | /yã²⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /yan⁵³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /yɛ̃n⁵³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /yan⁵¹/ | |
| Wuhan | /yɛn²¹³/ | |
| Chengdu | /yan³¹/ | |
| Guiyang | /ian²¹/ | |
| Kunming | /iɛ̃³¹/ | |
| Nanjing | /yen²⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /yĩ⁵⁵/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /ye¹¹/ |
| Pingyao | /ye̞¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /ye³¹/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /ɦyø²³/ |
| Suzhou | /ɦiø¹³/ | |
| Hangzhou | /ɦyõ²¹³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /jy³¹/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /ue⁴⁴/ |
| Tunxi | /yɛ⁴⁴/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /yẽ¹³/ |
| Xiangtan | /yẽ¹²/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /yɵn⁴⁵/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /ian¹¹/ |
| Taoyuan | /ʒen¹¹/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /jyn²¹/ |
| Nanning | /yn²¹/ | |
| Hong Kong | /jyn²¹/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) |
/uan³⁵/ /hŋ̍³⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /huoŋ⁵³/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /xyiŋ³³/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /hŋ̍⁵⁵/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) |
/zuaŋ³¹/ /hui³¹/ |
| Rime | |
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| Character | 園 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 云 (35) |
| Final (韻) | 元 (66) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 雨元切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ɦʉɐn/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ɦʷiɐn/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ɣiuɐn/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ɦuan/ |
| Li Rong |
/ɣiuɐn/ |
| Wang Li |
/ɣĭwɐn/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/i̯wɐn/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
yuán |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
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| Character | 園 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
yuán |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ hjwon › |
| Old Chinese |
/*C.ɢʷa[n]/ |
| English | garden |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 園 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 16221 |
| Phonetic component |
袁 |
| Rime group |
元 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
袁 |
| Old Chinese |
/*ɢʷan/ |
Definitions
園
Compounds
Derived terms from 園
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Japanese
Kanji
園
Readings
Compounds
Compounds
| Kanji in this term |
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| 園 |
|
えん Grade: 2 |
| on'yomi |
Pronunciation
Noun
園 (hiragana えん, romaji en, historical hiragana ゑん)
- garden
- park
- plantation
Proper noun
- A surname.
Suffix
園 (hiragana えん, romaji -en, historical hiragana ゑん)
References
Korean
Hanja
園 • (won) (hangeul 원, revised won, McCune-Reischauer wŏn)
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