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運

運

See also: 运 and 連

Translingual

Han character

運 (radical 162 辵+9, in Chinese 13 strokes, in Japanese 12 strokes, cangjie input 卜月十十 (YBJJ), four-corner 37304, composition ⿰辶軍)

References

  • KangXi: page 1261, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38998
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1752, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3866, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+904B

Chinese

trad. 運
simp. 运

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 運
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (軍) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
揮 *qʰul
輝 *qʰul
翬 *qʰul
暉 *qʰul
煇 *qʰul, *ɡuːn, *ɡuːnʔ
楎 *qʰul, *ɡuːn
瀈 *qʰul
韗 *qʰons, *ɢuns
褌 *kuːn
鶤 *kuːn, *ɢuns
緷 *kuːnʔ, *ɡuːnʔ, *ɢuns
睴 *kuːns, *ɡuːnʔ
璭 *kuːns
瘒 *ŋɡuːn
顐 *ŋɡuːn, *ŋɡuːns, *ɡuːn
諢 *ŋɡuːns
餫 *ɡuːn, *ɢuns
渾 *ɡuːn, *ɡuːnʔ
琿 *ɡuːn
鼲 *ɡuːn
堚 *ɡuːn
鯶 *ɡuːnʔ
軍 *kun
皸 *kun, *kuns
齳 *ŋɡunʔ
喗 *ŋɡunʔ
葷 *qʰun
惲 *qunʔ
賱 *qunʔ
運 *ɢuns
暈 *ɢuns
鄆 *ɢuns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɢuns) : semantic 辶 ‎(“motion”) + phonetic 軍 ‎(OC *kun).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 運
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 文 (59)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 王問切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦɨunH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦiunH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣiuənH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦunH/
Li
Rong		 /ɣiuənH/
Wang
Li		 /ɣĭuənH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯uənH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yùn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 運
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yùn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hjunH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ]ʷər-s/
English turn round, move

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 運
Reading # 1/1
No. 7341
Phonetic
component		 軍
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 運
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢuns/

Definitions

運

  1. to move; to transport; to carry; to ship
  2. to use; to utilize
  3. fortune; luck; fate

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

運

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. To drive
  2. To manage, to run
  3. To ship, to transport
  4. luck, fortune
    運がいい
    うんがいい
    un ga ii
    To have luck/be lucky

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

運 • ‎(un) (hangeul 운, McCune-Reischauer un, Yale wun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

運 (vận, nảy, vần, vẩn, vặn, vờn)

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