完

See also: 宗

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

完 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 十一一山 (JMMU), four-corner 3021₁, composition ⿱宀元)

Derived characters

• 寇

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 282, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7079
• Dae Jaweon: page 555, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 914, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5B8C

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		完

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
冠	*kŋoːn, *kŋoːns
莞	*kŋoːn, *ɦŋoːn, *ɦŋroːnʔ
脘	*ŋkoːnʔ
筦	*ŋkoːnʔ
梡	*ŋ̊ʰoːnʔ, *ɦŋoːn, *ɦŋoːnʔ
岏	*ŋoːn
刓	*ŋoːn
园	*ŋoːn
忨	*ŋoːn, *ŋoːns
蚖	*ŋoːn, *ŋon
黿	*ŋoːn, *ŋon
抏	*ŋoːn
玩	*ŋoːns
貦	*ŋoːns
翫	*ŋoːns
妧	*ŋoːns
完	*ɦŋoːn
捖	*ɦŋoːn
垸	*ɦŋoːn, *ɦŋoːns
綄	*ɦŋoːn, *ɦŋoːnʔ
院	*ɦŋoːn, *ɦŋons
皖	*ɦŋoːnʔ, *ɦŋroːnʔ
晥	*ɦŋoːnʔ
浣	*ɦŋoːnʔ
頑	*ŋroːn, *ŋroːn
睆	*ɦŋroːnʔ
鯇	*ɦŋroːnʔ
元	*ŋon
沅	*ŋon
芫	*ŋon
杬	*ŋon
邧	*ŋon, *ŋonʔ
阮	*ŋon, *ŋonʔ
俒	*ɦŋuːn, *ɦŋuːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɦŋoːn) : semantic 宀 (“roof”) + phonetic 元 (OC *ŋon).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 完

1. whole; complete
2. completed; finished; done
3. ended; over

   噉就完咗啦！ [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   gam² zau⁶ jyun⁴ zo² laa¹! [Jyutping]

   Is that all!? / It's over just like that?

4. firm; stable
5. full; abundant
6. perfect; faultless; flawless
7. to complete; to finish; to settle
8. Used after a verb to indicate perfective aspect (action completion).

   食完 [Cantonese]  ―  sik⁶ jyun⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  done eating

   搞完！ [Cantonese]  ―  gaau² jyun⁴! [Jyutping]  ―  Done!

9. (of life) to end; to enter a dangerous or hopeless state; to be doomed; done for
10. to pay; to pay back
11. to keep; to preserve
12. completely; entirely
13. (historical) an ancient punishment
14. a surname

Synonyms

• (Used after a verb): 盡／尽 (jìn)
• (Cantonese) (Used after a verb): 嗮 (sài)

See also

• (Used after a verb): 了 (le)
• (Cantonese) (Used after a verb): 咗 (zo²)

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

完

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: がん (gan)
• Kan-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)
• Kun: まったい (mattai, 完い); まっとう (mattou, 完う)

Compounds

Compounds

• 完(かん)成(せい) (kansei): completion, finish; to become complete or finished
• 完(かん)全(ぜん) (kanzen): complete, perfect; faultless
• 完(かん)品(ぴん) (kanpin): faultless article
• 完(かん)了(りょう) (kanryō): completion, finish; to complete or finish something

Etymology

Kanji in this term
完
かん Grade: 4
kan'on

From Middle Chinese 完 (MC hwan).

Affix

完(かん) • (kan) ^{←くわん (kwan)?}

1. complete, perfect, infallible, faultless
2. to complete, to finish

Noun

完(かん) • (kan) ^{←くわん (kwan)?}

1. The End; Finis (used at the end of a novel, movie, etc.)

Suffix

完(かん) • (-kan) ^{←くわん (kwan)?}

1. completion; conclusion; end
2. fully provided

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Korean

Hanja

完 • (wan) (hangeul 완, revised wan, McCune–Reischauer wan)

1. complete
2. whole

Compounds

• 완전 (wanjeon, “complete, whole”) (完全)
• 완성 (wanseong, “complete”) (完成)
• 미완성 (miwanseong, “incomplete”) (未完成)
• 완벽 (wanbyeok, “perfect”) (完璧)
• 완료 (wallyo, “complete, finished”) (完了)
• 완결 (wan'gyeol, “complete, finished”) (完結)
• 완패 (wanpae, “defeated”) (完敗)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 完 (hoàn)

1. complete (used only as part of a compounds)

Compounds

• hoàn hảo (“successfully done, perfect”) (完好)
• hoàn thiện (“to complete, to perfect”) (完善)
• hoàn thành (“to accomplish, to finish, to complete”) (完成)