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See also: 金, 𠓴, and 㒰

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – belongings under a roof (入/人): all one’s belongings, complete.

Historical forms of the character 全
Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script
Large seal script L32047 L32048 L07273 L07274 L07275 L07276 L07277 L07278 L07279 L07280 L07281 L07282 L07283 Small seal script s03782
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (large seal) and Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Han character

全 (radical 11 入+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人一土 (OMG), four-corner 8010₄, composition ⿱人王 (GJ) or ⿱入王 (TKV))

Derived characters

• 栓

See also

• 金

References

• KangXi: page 126, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1424
• Dae Jaweon: page 271, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 115, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5168

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		全

Alternative forms

• 㒰

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): quán (quan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhiòn
• Min Nan (POJ): chn̂g / choân

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: quán
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄢˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'üan²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyuan
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰy̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cyun⁴
    • Yale: chyùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰyːn²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhiòn
    • Hakka Romanization System: qionˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: qion²
    • IPA: /t͡ɕʰi̯on¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chn̂g / choân
    • Tâi-lô: tsn̂g / tsuân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zngg, zoaan
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sŋ̍²⁴/, /t͡suan²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sŋ̍¹³/, /t͡suan¹³/
    • Note: chn̂g - vernacular, choân - literary.

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 全
Mandarin	Beijing	/t͡ɕʰyan³⁵/
	Harbin	/t͡ɕʰyan²⁴/
	Tianjin	/t͡ɕʰyan⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/t͡ɕʰyã⁴²/
	Qingdao	/t͡sʰiã⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/t͡sʰyan⁴²/
	Xi'an	/t͡sʰuã²⁴/
	Xining	/t͡sʰuã²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/t͡ɕʰyan⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/t͡ɕʰyɛ̃n⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/t͡ɕyan⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/t͡ɕʰyɛn²¹³/ 新 /t͡ɕʰiɛn²¹³/ 舊
	Chengdu	/t͡ɕʰyan³¹/
	Guiyang	/t͡ɕʰian²¹/
	Kunming	/t͡ɕʰiɛ̃³¹/
	Nanjing	/t͡sʰyen²⁴/
	Hefei	/t͡ɕʰyĩ⁵⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡ɕʰye¹¹/
	Pingyao	/t͡ɕʰye̞¹³/
	Hohhot	/t͡ɕʰye³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/ʑi²³/
	Suzhou	/ziɪ¹³/
	Hangzhou	/d͡ʑiẽ̞²¹³/
	Wenzhou	/jy³¹/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡ɕʰye⁴⁴/
	Tunxi	/t͡sʰiɛ⁴⁴/ /t͡ɕʰyɛ⁴⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡siẽ¹³/
	Xiangtan	/d͡zyẽ¹²/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡ɕʰyɵn⁴⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/t͡sʰien¹¹/
	Taoyuan	/t͡sʰion¹¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/t͡sʰyn²¹/
	Nanning	/t͡sʰyn²¹/
	Hong Kong	/t͡sʰyn²¹/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/t͡suan³⁵/ /t͡sŋ̍³⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/t͡suoŋ⁵³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/t͡syiŋ²¹/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/t͡sʰuaŋ⁵⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/suaŋ³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /d͡ziuᴇn/▼

Rime
Character	全
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	仙 (78)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	疾緣切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ziuᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡zʷiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡zjuæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡zwian/
Li Rong	/d͡ziuɛn/
Wang Li	/d͡zĭwɛn/
Bernard Karlgren	/d͡zʱi̯wɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	quán

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[dz]o[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*zlon/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	全
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	quán
Middle Chinese	‹ dzjwen ›
Old Chinese	/*[dz]o[n]/
English	complete (adj.)
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	全
Reading #	1/1
No.	10718
Phonetic component	全
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	全
Old Chinese	/*zlon/

Definitions

全

1. entire; all
2. everything; complete
3. completely
4. maintain, keep whole or intact
5. A surname​.

References

• (Min Nan) “Entry #2066”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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Japanese

Kanji

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(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: ぜん (zen)
• Kan’on: せん (sen) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kun: すべて (全て, subete), まったく (全く, mattaku), まったい (全い, mattai), まっとう (全う, mattou)

Compounds

Compounds

全員 (ぜんいん) ‎(zen'in): all members, all employees 全音 (ぜんおん) ‎(zen'on): a whole tone 全部 (ぜんぶ) ‎(zenbu): altogether; everything 全然 (ぜんぜん) ‎(zenzen): completely (not) (followed by a negative verb)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
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ぜん Grade: 3
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 全 ‎(dzjwen, “complete, whole”).

Pronunciation

• On'yomi: Goon
• (Tokyo) ぜ​ん [zéꜜǹ] (Atamadaka - [1])
• IPA^(key): [zẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

全 ‎(hiragana ぜん, romaji zen)

1. entire, complete, overall

Prefix

全 ‎(hiragana ぜん, romaji zen-)

1. all, pan-, omni-

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Korean

Hanja

全 • ‎(jeon) (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn)

1. whole; all; complete

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Vietnamese

Han character

全 (toàn, tuyền)

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