灣

See also 湾

Translingual

Stroke order

simpl.		湾
trad.		灣

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 彎 – a type of water. Note that 彎 means “bend, curve” (from 弓 (“bow”), hence “curve (of a bow)”), so there are also connotations of “bend in the stream”, or the curve of a bay or inlet.

Han character

灣 (radical 85 水+22, 25 strokes, cangjie input 水女火弓 (EVFN), four-corner 3212₇)

1. a bay, cove, inlet, bend of stream

Descendants

• 湾

References

• KangXi: page 664, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18823
• Dae Jaweon: page 1072, character 34
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1798, character 9
• Unihan data for U+7063

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Cantonese

Hanzi

灣 (simplified 湾, jyutping waan¹, Yale waan¹)

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Japanese

Kanji

灣

Readings

• On: わん (wan)
• Kun: いりこむ (irikomu)

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Korean

Hanja

灣 (hangeul 만, revised man, McCune-Reischauer man, Yale man)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

灣 (simplified 湾, pinyin wān (wan1), Wade-Giles wan¹)

Compounds

• 排灣
• 台灣

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Middle Chinese

Han character

灣 (quan)

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Min Nan

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ uan˥˥ ]

Noun

灣 (traditional, POJ oan, simplified 湾)

1. bay

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Vietnamese

Han character

灣 (loan, loáng, loãng, vịnh)