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爰

爰

Translingual

Han character

爰 (radical 87 爪+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月一大水 (BMKE), four-corner 20447, composition ⿳爫一友)

  1. lead on to
  2. therefore, then

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 689, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19672
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1102, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2032, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7230

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 爰

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 爰
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (爰) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
暖 *noːnʔ
煖 *noːnʔ, *qʰʷan
喛 *qʰʷaːns, *qʰʷan
緩 *ɢʷaːnʔ
鰀 *ɢʷaːnʔ
嵈 *ɢʷaːnʔ
鍰 *ɢʷraːn
湲 *ɢʷan
媛 *ɢʷans, *ɢʷan
瑗 *ɢʷans
援 *ɢʷans, *ɢʷan
褑 *ɢʷans
諼 *qʰʷan, *qʰʷanʔ
愋 *qʰʷan
楥 *qʰʷans
爰 *ɢʷan
鶢 *ɢʷan
蝯 *ɢʷan
猨 *ɢʷan

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 爫 ‎(“hand, claw”) + 又 ‎(“hand”) – the middle component has taken various forms.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 爰
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)
Character 爰
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yuán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hjwon ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷa[n]/
English there, then, thereupon

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 爰
Reading # 1/1
No. 16176
Phonetic
component		 爰
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 袁
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷan/

Definitions

爰

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Compounds

  • 兔爰
  • 爰居
  • 爰爰
  • 爰田

References

Japanese

Kanji

爰

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

爰 • ‎(won) (hangeul 원, revised won, McCune-Reischauer wŏn, Yale wen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

爰 (vươn)

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