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宛

宛

Translingual

Han character

宛 (radical 40 宀+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 十弓戈山 (JNIU), four-corner 30212, composition ⿱宀夗)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 284, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7110
  • Dae Jaweon: page 561, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 922, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5B9B

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 宛

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qon, *qonʔ) : semantic 宀 + phonetic 夗 ‎(OC *qonʔ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 宛 宛
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 影 (34) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 元 (66) 元 (66)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 於袁切 於阮切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔʉɐn/ /ʔʉɐnX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔʷiɐn/ /ʔʷiɐnX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔiuɐn/ /ʔiuɐnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔuan/ /ʔuanX/
Li
Rong		 /ʔiuɐn/ /ʔiuɐnX/
Wang
Li		 /ĭwɐn/ /ĭwɐnX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔi̯wɐn/ /ʔi̯wɐnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yuān yuǎn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 宛
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 wǎn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔjwonX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ʔ]o[r]ʔ/
English curved; to bend

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 宛 宛
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 16284 16297
Phonetic
component		 夗 夗
Rime
group		 元 元
Rime
subdivision		 3 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 鴛 婉
Old
Chinese		 /*qon/ /*qonʔ/

Definitions

宛

  1. as if, seem
  2. crooked, winding

Japanese

Kanji

宛

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. allocate

Readings

  • On: えん (en)
  • Kun: あたかも (atakamo), あて (ate), ずつ (zutsu)

Korean

Hanja

宛 • ‎(wan, won) (hangeul 완, 원, revised wan, won, McCune-Reischauer wan, wŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

宛 (uyển, uốn)

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