旋

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 㫃 + 疋 (“foot”)

Han character

旋 (radical 70 方+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜尸人弓人 (YSONO), four-corner 0828₁)

1. to revolve, move in orbit
2. return

References

• KangXi: page 483, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13656
• Dae Jaweon: page 845, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2181, character 4
• Unihan data for U+65CB

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Cantonese

Hanzi

旋 (Yale syun4)

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Japanese

Kanji

旋 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: せん (sen)
• Kun: めぐる (meguru), ゆばり (yubari)

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Korean

Hanja

旋 (hangeul 선, revised seon, McCune-Reischauer sŏn, Yale sen)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

旋 (pinyin xuán (xuan2), Wade-Giles hsüan²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

旋 (toàn, triệng, trình, triền, tuyền)