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[edit] Translingual

Stroke order
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Stroke order
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[edit] Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic  + semantic  (fire)

Note that the upper left component is analyzed as 肉 (meat), and in the character 肰 (used as phonetic) is drawn as 月 (moon), but in 然 this is distorted (tilted), looking more like 夕 (evening), with an extra stroke; compare , .

[edit] Han character

(radical 86 +8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 月大火 (BKF), four-corner 23333)

  1. yes, certainly
  2. pledge, promise
  3. (archaic) to agree; to endorse; to approve
  4. (archaic) but

[edit] Derived characters

[edit] References

  • KangXi: page 675, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19149
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1086, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2213, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7136

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

(Yale yin4)


[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

[edit] Readings

[edit] Compounds


[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

(hangeul , revised yeon, McCune-Reischauer yŏn, Yale yen)


[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

(pinyin rán (ran2), Wade-Giles jan2)

[edit] Compounds


[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

(nhiên, nhen, nhơn)

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