紋

See also 纹

Translingual

simpl.		纹
trad.		紋

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 糹 (“thread”) + phonetic 文 – a line of thread.

Note that 文 has a meaning of “mark, tattoo”, hence connotations of “line marks, streaks”, or “lines on the body, wrinkles, fingerprints”.

Han character

紋 (radical 120 糸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 女火卜大 (VFYK), four-corner 2094₀, composition ⿰糸文)

1. line, streak, stripe
2. wrinkle

Descendants

• 纹

References

• KangXi: page 916, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27262
• Dae Jaweon: page 1345, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3376, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7D0B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

紋 (simplified 纹, Yale man4)

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Japanese

Kanji

紋 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. family crest

Readings

• On: もん (mon), ぶん (bun)
• Kun: あや (aya), もよう (moyou)

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Korean

Hanja

紋 (hangeul 문, revised mun, McCune-Reischauer mun, Yale mun)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

紋 (simplified 纹, pinyin wén (wen2), wèn (wen4), Wade-Giles wen², wen⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

紋 (văn, vằn, vân, vện)