婉

Translingual

Han character

婉 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女十弓山 (VJNU), four-corner 4341₂, composition ⿰女宛)

1. amiable, congenial
2. restrained

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 264, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6396
• Dae Jaweon: page 531, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1062, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5A49

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Chinese

trad.		婉
simp. #		婉

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (夗) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
涴	*qoːls, *qoːn, *qonʔ
埦	*qoːn
豌	*qoːn
剜	*qoːn
眢	*qoːn, *qon
蜿	*qoːn, *qon, *qonʔ
帵	*qoːn
碗	*qoːnʔ
椀	*qoːnʔ
盌	*qoːnʔ
腕	*qoːns
惋	*qoːns
捥	*qoːns
睕	*qoːns, *qonʔ, *qoːd
琬	*qoːns, *qonʔ
鴛	*quːn, *qon
鵷	*qon
惌	*qon, *qonʔ
宛	*qon, *qonʔ
怨	*qon, *qons
葾	*qon
夗	*qonʔ
婉	*qonʔ
菀	*qonʔ, *qud
苑	*qonʔ, *qons
踠	*qonʔ
畹	*qonʔ, *qons
倇	*qonʔ
晼	*qonʔ
黦	*qod, *qod, *qud
焥	*qoːd

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wǎn (wan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun² / wun²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): oán

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wǎn
    • Wade–Giles: wan³
    • Yale: wǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woan
    • Palladius: вань (vanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wän²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jyun² / wun²
    • Yale: yún / wún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn² / wun²
    • Guangdong Romanization: yun² / wun²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːn³⁵/, /wuːn³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oán
    • Tâi-lô: uán
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oarn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /uan⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /uan⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /uan⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /uan⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /uan⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: 'jwonX

Rime
Character	婉
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	元 (66)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	於阮切
Baxter	'jwonX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔʉɐnX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔʷiɐnX/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiuɐnX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔuanX/
Li Rong	/ʔiuɐnX/
Wang Li	/ĭwɐnX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔi̯wɐnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yuǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyun2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ʔ]o[n]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qonʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	婉
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔjwonX ›
Old Chinese	/*[ʔ]o[n]ʔ/
English	beautiful
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	婉
Reading #	1/1
No.	16290
Phonetic component	夗
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	婉
Old Chinese	/*qonʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 婉

1. Gentle
2. Beautiful
3. Graceful, elegant

References

• “婉”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

婉

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. graceful

Readings

• On (unclassified): えん (en)
• Kun: うつくしい (utsukushii, 婉しい)

Compounds

• 婉曲

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Korean

Hanja

婉 (eum 완 (wan))

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Vietnamese

Han character

婉: Hán Nôm readings: uyển, uốn

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