戀

See also: 恋

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): 䜌 + 心 (“heart”)

Han character

戀 (radical 61 心+19, 23 strokes, cangjie input 女火心 (VFP), four-corner 2233₉, composition ⿱䜌心)

1. to love
2. long for, yearn for

References

• KangXi: page 409, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11504
• Dae Jaweon: page 751, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2372, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6200

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Chinese

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trad.		戀
simp.		恋

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): liàn (lian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lyun², lyun⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: liàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄢˋ
    • Wade-Giles: lien⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liann
    • IPA ^(key): /li̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lyun², lyun⁵
    • Yale: lyún, lyúhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lyn², lyn⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /lyːn³⁵/, /lyːn¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (戀, reconstructed)
Character (戀), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 來 (37) Final: 仙 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 力卷切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/liuᴇnH/	/li̯wɛnH/	/liuɛnH/	/lʷiɛnH/	/lwianH/	/lĭwɛnH/	/ljuænH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (戀, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
戀								liàn								‹ ljwenH ›								/*[r]on-s/								to long for
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
戀					8632										元					3					戀					/*b·rons/

Compounds

• 戀愛

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Japanese

Kanji

戀

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: れん (ren)
• Kun: こい (koi), こいしい (koishii)

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Korean

Hanja

戀 (ryeon, yeon) (hangeul 련, 연, revised ryeon, yeon, McCune-Reischauer ryŏn, yŏn, Yale lyen, yen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

戀 (luyến, luýnh)

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