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婉

婉

Translingual

Han character

婉 (radical 38 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女十弓山 (VJNU), four-corner 43412, composition ⿰女宛)

  1. amiable, congenial
  2. restrained

References

  • KangXi: page 264, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6396
  • Dae Jaweon: page 531, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1062, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5A49

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 婉

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (夗) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
涴 *qoːls, *qoːn, *qonʔ
埦 *qoːn
豌 *qoːn
剜 *qoːn
眢 *qoːn, *qon
蜿 *qoːn, *qon, *qonʔ
帵 *qoːn
碗 *qoːnʔ
椀 *qoːnʔ
盌 *qoːnʔ
腕 *qoːns
惋 *qoːns
捥 *qoːns
睕 *qoːns, *qonʔ, *qoːd
琬 *qoːns, *qonʔ
鴛 *quːn, *qon
鵷 *qon
惌 *qon, *qonʔ
宛 *qon, *qonʔ
怨 *qon, *qons
葾 *qon
夗 *qonʔ
婉 *qonʔ
菀 *qonʔ, *qud
苑 *qonʔ, *qons
踠 *qonʔ
畹 *qonʔ, *qons
倇 *qonʔ
晼 *qonʔ
黦 *qod, *qod, *qud
焥 *qoːd

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 婉
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 元 (66)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 於阮切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔʉɐnX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔʷiɐnX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔiuɐnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔuanX/
Li
Rong		 /ʔiuɐnX/
Wang
Li		 /ĭwɐnX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔi̯wɐnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yuǎn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 婉
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 wǎn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔjwonX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ʔ]o[n]ʔ/
English beautiful

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 婉
Reading # 1/1
No. 16290
Phonetic
component		 夗
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 婉
Old
Chinese		 /*qonʔ/

Definitions

婉

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Compounds

  • 和婉
  • 委婉 (wěiwǎn)
  • 婉勸／婉劝
  • 婉和
  • 婉商
  • 婉妙
  • 婉娩
  • 婉婉
  • 婉媚
  • 婉嫕
  • 婉孌
  • 婉容
  • 婉拒
  • 婉曲
  • 婉約／婉约
  • 婉約派／婉约派
  • 婉縟／婉缛
  • 婉言
  • 婉詞／婉词 (wǎncí)
  • 婉謝／婉谢
  • 婉轉／婉转 (wǎnzhuǎn)
  • 婉辭／婉辞 (wǎncí)
  • 婉順／婉顺
  • 婉麗／婉丽
  • 幽婉
  • 悽婉／凄婉
  • 淒婉／凄婉
  • 溫婉／温婉 (wēnwǎn)
  • 燕婉
  • 風流婉轉／风流婉转

References

Japanese

Kanji

婉

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

婉 • ‎(wan) (hangeul 완, revised wan, McCune-Reischauer wan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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