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Translingual

Han character

(radical 120 +4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 女火卜大 (VFYK), four-corner 20940, composition)

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 916, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27262
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1345, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3376, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+7D0B

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*mrɯn
*mrɯn
*mrɯn, *mɯn, *mɯns
*mrɯn
*mrɯn
*mɯːl
*mɯːl
*mɯːl
*mɯn
*mɯn
*mɯn
*mɯn
*mɯn
*mɯn
*mɯn
*mɯn, *mɯns
*mɯnʔ, *mɯns
*mɯns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mɯn) : semantic  (thread) + phonetic  (OC *mɯn) – a line of thread. Specialised character from (OC *mɯn).

Etymology

From (OC *mɯn, “mark, tattoo”).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (59)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mɨun/
Pan
Wuyun
/miun/
Shao
Rongfen
/miuən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/mun/
Li
Rong
/miuən/
Wang
Li
/mĭuən/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mi̯uən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
wén
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 13016
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mɯn/

Definitions

  1. line; streak; stripe
  2. grain (of wood)
  3. wrinkle
  4. pattern
  5. to tattoo

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. crest (often of a family)

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(mun) (hangeul , revised mun, McCune-Reischauer mun, Yale mun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(văn, vằn, vân, vện)

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