碗

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 石 + phonetic 宛.

Han character

碗 (radical 112 石+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 一口十弓山 (MRJNU), four-corner 1361₂)

1. bowl, small dish

Related characters

• 腕 婉

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 832, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24306
• Dae Jaweon: page 1249, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2440, character 10
• Unihan data for U+7897

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Cantonese

Hanzi

碗 (Yale wun2)

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Japanese

Kanji

碗 (“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On: わん (wan)
• Kun: こばち (kobachi), わん (wan)

Compounds

• 茶碗 (ちゃわん, chawan)

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Korean

Hanja

碗 (hangeul 완, revised wan, McCune-Reischauer wan, Yale wan)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

碗 (pinyin wǎn (wan3), Wade-Giles wan³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

碗 (oản, uyển)