袁

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 叀 + semantic 衣

Han character

袁 (radical 145 衣+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 土口竹女 (GRHV), four-corner 4073₂, composition ⿱𠮷𧘇)

1. robe
2. a surname

Derived characters

• 睘, 遠, 園, 轅, 猿

References

• KangXi: page 1113, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34152
• Dae Jaweon: page 1579, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 444, character 11
• Unihan data for U+8881

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		袁

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yuán (yuan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): ôan

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yuán
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄢˊ
    • Wade-Giles: yüan²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuan
    • IPA ^(key): /y̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyun⁴
    • Yale: yùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /jyːn²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ôan
    • Tâi-lô: uân
    • IPA (Taipei): /uan²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /uan¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (袁, reconstructed)
Character (袁), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 云 (35) Final: 元 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 雨元切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɦʉɐn/	/i̯wɐn/	/ɣiuɐn/	/ɦʷiɐn/	/ɦuan/	/ɣĭwɐn/	/ɣiuɐn/

Old Chinese pronunciation (袁, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
袁								yuán								‹ hjwon ›								/*[ɢ]ʷa[n]/								long robe
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
袁					16220					袁					元					1					袁					/*ɢʷan/

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

袁

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: えん (en), おん (on)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

袁 (viên)

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