阮

Translingual

Wikipedia

Han character

阮 (radical 170 阜+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 弓中一一山 (NLMMU), four-corner 7121₁)

1. ancient musical instrument (moon-shaped lute)
2. used as a surname

References

• KangXi: page 1346, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41569
• Dae Jaweon: page 1848, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4116, character 6
• Unihan data for U+962E

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Cantonese

Hanzi

阮 (Jyutping jyun2, jyun5, Yale yun2, yun5)

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Japanese

Kanji

阮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: げん (gen)

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Korean

Hanja

阮 (wan, won) (hangeul 완, 원, revised wan, won, McCune-Reischauer wan, wŏn, Yale wan, wen)

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Mandarin

Etymology

This character's usage to refer to a Chinese plucked, fretted, round-bodied lute with four strings derives from 阮咸 (Ruǎn Xián), a Chinese scholar of the Six Dynasties period, who played this instrument.

Hanzi

阮 (Pinyin ruǎn (ruan3), Wade-Giles juan³)

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Compounds

• 高音阮
• 小阮
• 中阮
• 大阮
• 低音阮

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Middle Chinese

Han character

阮 (*ngiuæ̌n)

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Min Nan

Pronunciation

• (Quanzhou) IPA^(key): [ ɡɨn˥˧ ]
• (Xiamen, Taipei) IPA^(key): [ ɡun˥˧ ]
• (Zhangzhou) IPA^(key): [ ɡuan˥˧ ]

Pronoun

阮 (traditional and simplified, POJ gún or góan)

1. we; us (not including you)
2. my

Related terms

• 咱 (lán) (we: including you)

See also

• (Mandarin) trad. 我們, simpl. 我们

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Vietnamese

Wikipedia

• quốc ngữ: Nguyễn, ngán, ngón, ngoãn

• Chinese Commercial Code:
  • Decimal: 7086