挽

See also: 輓

挽 U+2F8B9, 挽 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F8B9 ← 𢬌 [U+2F8B8] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 拼 → [U+2F8BA]

Translingual

Han character

挽 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 手弓日山 (QNAU), four-corner 5701₆, composition ⿰扌免)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 432, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12111
• Dae Jaweon: page 781, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1886, character 5
• Unihan data for U+633D

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		挽

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
免	*mronʔ
娩	*mronʔ, *mronʔ, *m̥ʰons, *monʔ, *mons, *muns
勉	*mronʔ
俛	*mronʔ
鮸	*mronʔ
冕	*mronʔ
絻	*mronʔ, *moːn, *muns
婏	*m̥ʰos
浼	*muːlʔ
鞔	*moːn
悗	*moːn
嬎	*m̥ʰons
晚	*monʔ
挽	*monʔ
輓	*monʔ, *mons
脕	*monʔ, *mons, *muns
莬	*muns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *monʔ) : semantic 扌 + phonetic 免 (OC *mronʔ).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wǎn (wan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waan⁵
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): boán / bán

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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: waan⁵
    • Yale: wáahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waan⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: wan⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waːn¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: boán
    • Tâi-lô: buán
    • Phofsit Daibuun: boarn
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /buan⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /buan⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bán
    • Tâi-lô: bán
    • Phofsit Daibuun: barn
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /ban⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ban⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ban⁴¹/

Note:

• boán - literary;
• bán - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: mjonX

Rime
Character	挽
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	元 (66)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	無遠切
Baxter	mjonX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mʉɐnX/
Pan Wuyun	/mʷiɐnX/
Shao Rongfen	/miuɐnX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/muanX/
Li Rong	/miuɐnX/
Wang Li	/mĭwɐnX/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯wɐnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	maan5

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*monʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	挽
Reading #	1/1
No.	9081
Phonetic component	免
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	晚
Old Chinese	/*monʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 挽

1. to pull
2. to pull back, to draw back
3. (Southern Min) to pluck; to pick

   細漢偷挽匏，大漢偷牽牛 [Hokkien, trad.]
   细汉偷挽匏，大汉偷牵牛 [Hokkien, simp.]

   sè-hàn thau bán pû, tōa-hàn thau khan gû [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

   one's behavior as a child will be paralleled in adulthood
   'if as a child one picks calabash (and steals them), then as adult one will lead cattle (and steal them) too'

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 挽 – see 輓 (“to pull; to draw; to mourn; to lament; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 輓).

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

References

• “Entry #6006”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

挽

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• Go-on: もん (mon)
• Kan-on: ばん (ban)
• Kun: ひく (hiku, 挽く)

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Korean

Hanja

挽 • (man) (hangeul 만)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 挽 (vãn)

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References

• Nom Foundation