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Translingual

Han character

(radical 162 +10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜土口女 (YGRV), four-corner 34303, composition)

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 1263, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39047
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1757, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3869, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+9060

Chinese

trad.
simp.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ɢʷalʔ
*ɢʷan
*ɢʷan
*ɢʷan
*ɢʷan
*ɢʷan
*ɢʷan
*ɢʷanʔ, *ɢʷans

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɢʷanʔ, *ɢʷans) : semantic  (walk) + phonetic  (OC *ɢʷan).

Pronunciation 1



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2
Initial () (35)
Final () (66)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦʉɐnX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦʷiɐnX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣiuɐnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦuanX/
Li
Rong
/ɣiuɐnX/
Wang
Li
/ɣĭwɐnX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i̯wɐnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yuǎn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yuǎn
Middle
Chinese
‹ hjwonX ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.ɢʷanʔ/
English far

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
Reading # 1/2
No. 16226
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɢʷanʔ/

Definitions

  1. distant; remote; far
  2. not intimate; distant
  3. profound
  4. (intensifier in a comparison) much; by far
Antonyms
  • (far): (jìn)

Compounds

Pronunciation 2



Rime
Character
Reading # 2/2
Initial () (35)
Final () (66)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦʉɐnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦʷiɐnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣiuɐnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦuanH/
Li
Rong
/ɣiuɐnH/
Wang
Li
/ɣĭwɐnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i̯wɐnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yuàn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 2/2
No. 16227
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɢʷans/

Definitions

  1. to distance oneself from; to keep at a distance
  2. A surname.

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. distant
  2. far

Readings

Compounds

  • 永遠 (えいえん, eien)
  • 遠因 (えんいん, en'in)
  • 遠近 (えんきん, enkin)
  • 遠近法 (えんきんほう, enkinhō)
  • 遠交近攻 (えんこうきんこう, enkōkinkō)
  • 遠称 (えんしょう, enshō)
  • 遠心力 (えんしんりょく, enshinryoku)
  • 遠征 (えんせい, ensei)
  • 遠足 (えんそく, ensoku)
  • 遠方 (えんぽう, enpō)
  • 遠来 (えんらい, enrai)
  • 遠慮 (えんりょ, enryo)
  • 久遠 (くおん, kuon)
  • 深遠 (しんえん, shin'en)
  • 遠江 (とうとうみ, tōtōmi)

Korean

Hanja

(won) (hangeul , McCune-Reischauer wŏn, Yale wen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(viễn, vẻn, viển, vỏn)

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