員

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See also: 员 and 貝
員 U+54E1, 員
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54E1
← 哠
[U+54E0] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 哢 →
[U+54E2]

Translingual

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Stroke order
10 strokes

Han character

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員 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 口月山金 (RBUC), four-corner 60806, composition ⿱口貝)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 189, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3633
  • Dae Jaweon: page 409, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 628, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+54E1

Chinese

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trad. 員
simp. 员
alternative forms 貟／贠
𪔅

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 員
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (員) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
員 *ɢon, *ɢun
圓 *ɢon
塤 *qʰon
損 *sqʰuːnʔ
縜 *ɢun
隕 *ɢunʔ
殞 *ɢunʔ
溳 *ɢunʔ, *ɢun
磒 *ɢunʔ
霣 *ɢunʔ
愪 *ɢunʔ, *ɢun
勛 *qʰun
鄖 *ɢun
篔 *ɢun
貟 *ɢun, *ɢuns
韻 *ɢʷɯns

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : a 〇 indicating the top edge of a 鼎 (“ding”) - round.

Pronunciation 1

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Note:
  • îⁿ - vernacular;
  • oân, goân - literary.
Note:
  • uêng5 - Chaozhou;
  • uang5 - Shantou.
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 員
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yuán
Middle
Chinese 		‹ hjwen ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ɢʷ<r>en/
English circle; round

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 員
Reading # 1/2
No. 16199
Phonetic
component 		員
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		貟
Old
Chinese 		/*ɢon/
Notes 甲金文象鼎口爲圓初文

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Definitions

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員

  1. member
  2. personnel; staff member
  3. † Original form of 圓／圆 (yuán, “circle; round”).

Compounds

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Pronunciation 2

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Rime
Character 員
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 文 (59)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 王分切
Baxter hjun
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦɨun/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦiun/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣiuən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦun/
Li
Rong 		/ɣiuən/
Wang
Li 		/ɣĭuən/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/i̯uən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yún
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		wan4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 員
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yún
Middle
Chinese 		‹ hjun ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[ɢ]ʷə[n]/
English (a particle)

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 員
Reading # 2/2
No. 16215
Phonetic
component 		員
Rime
group 		文
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		雲
Old
Chinese 		/*ɢun/
Notes 貟字注説文作員

Definitions

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員

  1. Only used in 伍員／伍员 (“Wu Zixu”)

Compounds

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Pronunciation 3

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Definitions

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員

  1. a surname

References

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Japanese

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Kanji

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員

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

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Etymology

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Kanji in this term
員
いん
Grade: 3
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 員 (MC hjun).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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員(いん) • (in) ←ゐん (win)?

  1. (literary) member

Derived terms

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Suffix

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員(いん) • (-in) ←ゐん (-win)?

  1. member
    公(こう)務(む)員(いん) ― kōmuin ― public sector workers, civil servants

Affix

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員(いん) • (in) ←ゐん (win)?

  1. member

Derived terms

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Derived terms

References

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  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

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Etymology

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From Middle Chinese 員 (MC *hjwen). Recorded as Middle Korean 貟/원 (wen) (Yale: wen) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

員 (eumhun 인원 원 (inwon won))

  1. hanja form? of 원 (“person, personnel, employee, member”)

Compounds

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Compounds

References

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  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

Vietnamese

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Han character

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員: Hán Việt readings: vân[1], viên[1]
員: Nôm readings: von[2]

  1. chữ Hán form of viên (“person, member, staff, personnel”).

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Trần (1999).
  2. ^ Hồ (1976).
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