灣

See also: 湾

Translingual

Stroke order

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trad.		灣
simp.		湾

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 氵 + phonetic 彎 – a type of water. Note that 彎 means “bend, curve” (from 弓, 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

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 湾)

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Readings

• On: わん (wan)
• Kun: いりこむ (irikomu)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

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

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Compounds

• 排灣
• 台灣
• 臺灣
• 港灣
• 海灣

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Middle Chinese

Han character

灣 ('wan)

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Min Nan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ uan˥˥ ]

Noun

灣 (traditional, POJ oan, traditional 灣, simplified 湾)

1. bay

Compounds

• 台灣
• 臺灣
• 港灣

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Vietnamese

Han character

灣 (loan, loáng, loãng, vịnh)

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