融

Translingual

Han character

融 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 一月中一戈 (MBLMI), four-corner 1523₆, composition ⿰鬲虫)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1092, character 42
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33384
• Dae Jaweon: page 1557, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2877, character 8
• Unihan data for U+878D

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		融
alternative forms		𧖓

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
痋	*l'uːŋ
鉵	*l'uːŋ
赨	*l'uːŋ
爞	*l'uːŋ, *l'uŋ
蟲	*l'uŋ, *l'uŋs
融	*luŋ
瀜	*luŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *luŋ) : semantic 鬲 (“cauldron”) + phonetic 蟲 (OC *l'uŋ, *l'uŋs).

Etymology

“Hot air; steam; heat” > “to melt” > “to blend”.

Sino-Tibetan; compare Burmese လောင် (laung, “to burn; to be burnt; to scorch”). Related to 蟲 (OC *l'uŋ, *l'uŋs, “hot; hot air; hot weather”) (as in 蟲蟲 (OC *l'uŋ/l'uŋs l'uŋ/l'uŋs)), 爞 (OC *l'uːŋ, *l'uŋ, “hot weather”) and possibly the word family of *lVm: 焰 (OC *loms, “fire”).

It belongs to a word family comprising characters meaning “to melt, to smelt, to fuse, to dissolve”. In modern times the various characters have taken on their specialised meanings:

• 融 (OC *luŋ, “to melt (at normal temperature); to blend”)
• 鎔 (OC *loŋ, “to smelt; to melt (at a high temperature)”)
• 熔 (OC *loŋ, “to smelt; to melt (at a high temperature)”)
• 溶 (OC *loŋ, *loŋʔ, “to dissolve (in a liquid)”)

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 融

1. ^† hot air; steam (during cooking)
2. to melt
3. to mix; to blend; to fuse; to harmonise
4. (economics) to circulate
5. Short for 融城 (Róngchéng, “Fuqing, Fuzhou”).

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Japanese

Kanji

融

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. dissolve
2. melt

Readings

• Go-on: ゆ (yu)
• Kan-on: ゆう (yū, Jōyō)
• Kun: とおる (tōru, 融る); とける (tokeru, 融ける)
• Nanori: あき (aki); あきら (akira); あきらか (akiraka); すけ (suke); とお (tō); とおる (tōru); なかし (nakashi); ながし (nagashi); みち (michi); よし (yoshi)

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Korean

Hanja

融 • (yung) (hangeul 융, revised yung, McCune–Reischauer yung, Yale yung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 融 (dung)

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