運

See also 运, and 連

Translingual

simpl.		运
trad.		運

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 辶 (“motion”) + phonetic 軍

Han character

運 (radical 162 辵+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜月十十 (YBJJ), four-corner 3730₄, composition ⿰辶軍)

1. luck, fortune
2. ship, transport

References

• KangXi: page 1261, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38998
• Dae Jaweon: page 1752, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3866, character 1
• Unihan data for U+904B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

運 (simplified 运, Yale wan6)

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Japanese

Kanji

運 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. To drive
2. To manage, to run
3. To ship, to transport
4. luck, fortune

   運がいい
   うんがいい

   un ga ii

   To have a piece of luck

Readings

• On: うん (un)
• Kun: はこぶ (hakobu), めぐる (meguru), めぐらす (megurasu)

Compounds

• 運動 (うんどう, undō, “athletics”)
• 運命 (うんめい, unmei, “fate”)

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Korean

Hanja

運 (hangeul 운, revised un, McCune-Reischauer un, Yale wun)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

運 (simplified 运, pinyin yùn (yun4), Wade-Giles yün⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

運 (vận, nảy, vần, vẩn, vặn, vờn)