腕

Translingual

Han character

腕 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 月十弓山 (BJNU), four-corner 7321₂, composition ⿰月宛)

Related characters

• 碗 婉

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 987, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29631
• Dae Jaweon: page 1440, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2092, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8155

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Chinese

trad.		腕
simp. #		腕

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／形声, OC *qoːns) : semantic ⺼ (“meat, body part”) + phonetic 宛 (OC *qon, *qonʔ) – a part of the body.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wàn (wan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wun²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): vón
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): óaⁿ / oán

  (Teochew, Peng'im): uang²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wàn
    • Wade–Giles: wan⁴
    • Yale: wàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wann
    • Palladius: вань (vanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wun²
    • Yale: wún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wun²
    • Guangdong Romanization: wun²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuːn³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: vón
    • Hakka Romanization System: von`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: von³
    • Sinological IPA: /von³¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: óaⁿ / oán
    • Tâi-lô: uánn / uán
    • Phofsit Daibuun: voar, oarn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /uã⁵³/, /uan⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /uã⁵⁵⁴/, /uan⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /uã⁵³/, /uan⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /uã⁵³/, /uan⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /uã⁴¹/, /uan⁴¹/

Note:

• óaⁿ - vernacular;
• oán - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: uang²
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: uáng
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /uaŋ⁵²/

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• Middle Chinese: 'wanH

Rime
Character	腕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	烏貫切
Baxter	'wanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔuɑnH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔʷɑnH/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔuɑnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔwanH/
Li Rong	/ʔuɑnH/
Wang Li	/uɑnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔuɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wun3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qoːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	腕
Reading #	1/1
No.	16275
Phonetic component	夗
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	惋
Old Chinese	/*qoːns/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 腕

1. wrist
2. arm (of invertebrates)

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Japanese

Kanji

腕

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. arm
2. ability
3. talent

Readings

• Go-on: わん (wan, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: わん (wan, Jōyō)
• Kun: うで (ude, 腕, Jōyō); かいな (kaina, 腕)

Compounds

• 腕(うで)輪(わ) (udewa, “bracelet”)
• 腕(わん)白(ぱく) (wanpaku, “naughty”)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
腕
うで Grade: S
kun’yomi

Noun

腕(うで) • (ude)  (counter 本)

1. (anatomy) arm
   • 2006 December 9, Hideaki Sorachi, “[第](だい)百十九[訓](くん)　四[人](にん)[揃](そろ)えばいろんな[知](ち)[恵](え) [Lesson 119: Four Heads Are Better Than One]”, in (deprecated template usage) [銀](ぎん)[魂](たま) ([銀](ぎん)[魂](たま)) [Silver Soul], volume 14 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN:

     ……腕(うで)がなんで二本(ほん)あるかしってるか　それはな

     ……Ude ga nan de ni-hon aru ka shitteru ka Sore wa na

     ……Do you know why we have two hands? For situations like this

     早(はや)まるな万事(よろず)屋(や)‼希(き)望(ぼう)を捨(す)てるな

     Hayamaru na yorozuya‼ Kibō o suteru na

     Hang in there, do-it-all guy‼ Don’t give up hope just yet

2. ability; skill; talent

Etymology 2

From an original form kapina, reduced first to kaɸina, then kawina, then kaina.

Noun

腕(かいな) • (kaina) ^{←かひな (kafina)?}

1. arm

Etymology 3

Noun

腕(ただむき) • (tadamuki) 

1. arm

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Korean

Hanja

腕 • (wan) (hangeul 완, revised wan, McCune–Reischauer wan, Yale wan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 腕 (oản, uyển)

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