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袁
袁
Translingual
Han character
袁 (radical 145 衣+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 土口竹女 (GRHV), four-corner 40732, composition ⿱𠮷𧘇)
Derived characters
References
- KangXi: page 1113, character 8
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34152
- Dae Jaweon: page 1579, character 3
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 444, character 11
- Unihan data for U+8881
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
袁 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (袁) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| 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) : phonetic 叀 + semantic 衣.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄩㄢˊ
- Wade-Giles: yüan2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuan
- IPA (key): /y̯ɛn³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: jyun4
- Yale: yùhn
- Cantonese Pinyin: jyn4
- IPA (key): /jyːn²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- 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/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 袁 |
| 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 | 袁 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
yuán |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ hjwon › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[ɢ]ʷa[n]/ |
| English | long robe |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 袁 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 16220 |
| Phonetic component |
袁 |
| Rime group |
元 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
袁 |
| Old Chinese |
/*ɢʷan/ |
Definitions
袁
- the appearance of a robe being long
- A surname.
Compounds
References
- Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典)
- “Entry #41148”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
Korean
Hanja
袁 • (won) (hangeul 원, revised won, McCune-Reischauer wŏn, Yale wen)
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Vietnamese
Han character
袁 (viên)
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