安

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Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
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Etymology[edit]

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 宀 + 女. (A house 宀 with a woman 女 = contentment)

Han character[edit]

安 (radical 40 宀+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 十女 (JV), four-corner 30404, composition ⿱宀女)

  1. calm, peaceful, tranquil, quiet
  2. safe
  3. why
  4. a surname

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Descendants[edit]

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References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 282, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7072
  • Dae Jaweon: page 552, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 913, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+5B89

Chinese[edit]

-
simp. and trad.
 安

Pronunciation[edit]

Middle Chinese pronunciation (安, reconstructed)
Character (安), Pronunciation 1/1

Initial: 影 (34)
Final: 寒
Division: I

Openness: Open
Tone: Level (Ø)

 Fanqie: 烏寒切
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 Bernard
Karlgren		 Li
Rong		 Pan
Wuyun		 Edwin
Pulleyblank		 Wang
Li		 Shao
Rongfen
/ʔɑn/ /ʔɑn/ /ʔɑn/ /ʔɑn/ /ʔan/ /ɑn/ /ʔɑn/
Old Chinese pronunciation (安, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character Modern Beijing
(Pinyin)		 Middle Chinese Old Chinese English
安 ān ‹ ʔan › /*[ʔ]ˤa[n]/ peace(ful)
安 ān ‹ ʔan › /*[ʔ]ˤa[n]/ how
安 ān ‹ ʔan › /*[ʔ]ˤa[n]/ 安息 Ānxī (Iranian country in the western regions, W. Hàn; from Aršaka = Arsaces, founder of the Arsacid dynasty)

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 No. Phonetic
component		 Rime
group		 Rime
subdivision		 Corresponding
MC rime		 Old Chinese Notes
安 11 安 元 1 安 /*qaːn/

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Kanji[edit]

See also:
安

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. (An) Peace, peacefulness.
  2. (Yasui) Cheap.

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Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

安 (an) (hangeul 안, revised an, McCune-Reischauer an)

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Compounds[edit]

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

安 (an, yên)

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