腕

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic ⺼ (“meat, body part”) + phonetic 宛 – a part of the body.

Han character

腕 (radical 130 肉+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 月十弓山 (BJNU), four-corner 7321₂)

1. wrist, arm

Related characters

• 碗 婉

References

• KangXi: page 987, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29631
• Dae Jaweon: page 1440, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2092, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8155

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Cantonese

Hanzi

腕 (Yale wun2)

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Japanese

Noun

腕 (hiragana うで, romaji ude)

1. an arm (of body)

Etymology

kapina > kaɸina > kawina > kaina.

Noun

腕 (hiragana かいな, romaji kaina, historical hiragana かひな)

1. an arm

Noun

腕 (hiragana ただむき, romaji tadamuki)

1. an arm

Kanji

腕 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: わん (wan)
• Kun: うで (ude), かいな (kaina)

Compounds

• 腕白 (わんびゃく, wanbyaku): naughty

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

腕 (pinyin pái (pai2), pì (pi4), wàn (wan4), Wade-Giles p'ai², p'i⁴, wan⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

腕 (oản, uyển)