融

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 鬲 (“cauldron”) + phonetic 虫 – to melt in a cauldron.

Han character

融 (radical 142 虫+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 一月中一戈 (MBLMI), four-corner 1523₆)

1. melt, fuse
2. blend, harmonize

References

• KangXi: page 1092, character 42
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33384
• Dae Jaweon: page 1557, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2877, character 8
• Unihan data for U+878D

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Cantonese

Hanzi

融 (Yale yung4)

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Japanese

Kanji

融 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: ゆう (yū)
• Kun: とおる (tooru), とける (tokeru)

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Korean

Hanja

融 (hangeul 융, revised yung, McCune-Reischauer yung, Yale yung)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

融 (pinyin mā (ma1), mà (ma4), róng (rong2), Wade-Giles ma¹, ma⁴, jung²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

融 (dung)