爰

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 爫 (“hand, claw”) + 又 (“hand”) – the middle component has taken various forms.

Han character

爰 (radical 87 爪+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月一大水 (BMKE), four-corner 2044₇)

1. lead on to
2. therefore, then

Derived characters

• 援 暖 煖 緩 (缓)

References

• KangXi: page 689, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19672
• Dae Jaweon: page 1102, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2032, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7230

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Cantonese

Hanzi

爰 (Yale wun4, yun4)

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Japanese

Kanji

爰

Readings

• On: えん (en)
• Kun: ここに (kokoni)

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Korean

Hanja

爰 (hangeul 원, revised won, McCune-Reischauer wŏn, Yale wen)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

爰 (pinyin yuán (yuan2), Wade-Giles yüan²)