宛

宛 U+5B9B, 宛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B9B ← 定 [U+5B9A] CJK Unified Ideographs 宜 → [U+5B9C]

Translingual

Han character

宛 (radical 40 宀+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 十弓戈山 (JNIU), four-corner 3021₂, composition ⿱宀夗)

Derived characters

• 腕 碗 婉 椀 蜿

References

• KangXi: page 284, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7110
• Dae Jaweon: page 561, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 922, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5B9B

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		宛

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qon, *qonʔ): semantic 宀 + phonetic 夗 (OC *qonʔ).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wǎn (wan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun¹, jyun²
• Min Nan (POJ): oán

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: wǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˇ
    • Wade-Giles: wan³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woan
    • IPA ^(key): /u̯a̠n²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyun¹, jyun²
    • Yale: yūn, yún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn¹, jyn²
    • Guangdong Romanization: yun¹, yun²
    • IPA ^(key): /jyːn⁵⁵/, /jyːn³⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (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: /ʔʉɐn/, /ʔʉɐn^X/▼

Rime
Character	宛	宛
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	元 (66)	元 (66)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	於袁切	於阮切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔʉɐn/	/ʔʉɐnX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔʷiɐn/	/ʔʷiɐnX/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiuɐn/	/ʔiuɐnX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔuan/	/ʔuanX/
Li Rong	/ʔiuɐn/	/ʔiuɐnX/
Wang Li	/ĭwɐn/	/ĭwɐnX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔi̯wɐn/	/ʔi̯wɐnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yuān	yuǎn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[ʔ]o[r]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qon/, /*qonʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	宛
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔjwonX ›
Old Chinese	/*[ʔ]o[r]ʔ/
English	curved; to bend
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	宛	宛
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	16284	16297
Phonetic component	夗	夗
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	鴛	婉
Old Chinese	/*qon/	/*qonʔ/

Definitions

宛

1. as if, seem
2. crooked, winding

Compounds

• 大宛 (Dàyuān)
• 女宗宛在
• 委宛
• 宛丘
• 宛如 (wǎnrú)
• 宛妙

• 宛宛
• 宛延
• 宛然 (wǎnrán)
• 宛若 (wǎnruò)
• 宛若游龍／宛若游龙
• 宛轉／宛转 (wǎnzhuǎn)

• 宛轉周折／宛转周折
• 小宛
• 立陶宛 (Lìtáowǎn)
• 聲容宛在／声容宛在
• 英風宛在／英风宛在
• 音容宛在

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 宛 – see 豌. (This character, 宛, is the second-round simplified form of 豌.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Kanji

宛

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. address
2. just like

Readings

• Goon: おん (on)^{←をん (won, historical)}
• Kan’on: えん (en)^{←ゑん (wen, historical)}
• Kun: あてる (ateru, 宛てる, Jōyō); あたかも (atakamo, 宛も); あて (ate, 宛); ずつ (zutsu, 宛)^{←づつ (dutu, historical)}

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Korean

Hanja

宛 • (wan, won) (hangeul 완, 원, revised wan, won, McCune-Reischauer wan, wŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

宛 (uyển, uốn)

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