運

See also: 运 and 連

Translingual

Han character

運 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+9, 13 strokes in Chinese, 12 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 卜月十十 (YBJJ), four-corner 3730₄, composition ⿺辶軍)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1261, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38998
• Dae Jaweon: page 1752, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3866, character 1
• Unihan data for U+904B

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Chinese

trad.		運
simp.		运*

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 運
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
揮	*qʰul
輝	*qʰul
翬	*qʰul
暉	*qʰul
煇	*qʰul, *ɡuːn, *ɡuːnʔ
楎	*qʰul, *ɡuːn
瀈	*qʰul
韗	*qʰons, *ɢuns
褌	*kuːn
鶤	*kuːn, *ɢuns
緷	*kuːnʔ, *ɡuːnʔ, *ɢuns
睴	*kuːns, *ɡuːnʔ
璭	*kuːns
瘒	*ŋɡuːn
顐	*ŋɡuːn, *ŋɡuːns, *ɡuːn
諢	*ŋɡuːns
餫	*ɡuːn, *ɢuns
渾	*ɡuːn, *ɡuːnʔ
琿	*ɡuːn
鼲	*ɡuːn
堚	*ɡuːn
鯶	*ɡuːnʔ
軍	*kun
皸	*kun, *kuns
齳	*ŋɡunʔ
喗	*ŋɡunʔ
葷	*qʰun
惲	*qunʔ
賱	*qunʔ
運	*ɢuns
暈	*ɢuns
鄆	*ɢuns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɢuns) : semantic 辵 (“motion”) + phonetic 軍 (OC *kun).

Etymology

STEDT relates it to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *wal (“round; circular”), which is also connected to the following:

• 圓 (OC *ɢon, “round”)
• 圜 (OC *ɡʷraːn, “round”)
• 旋 (OC *sɢʷans, “to revolve; to return”)
• 環 (OC *ɡʷraːn, “ring”)
• 還 (OC *ɡʷraːn, “to return”)
• 院 (OC *ɦŋons, “courtyard”).

暈 (OC *ɢuns, “halo”) is the same word (Schuessler, 2007). It is possibly related to 雲 (OC *ɢun, “cloud”) (ibid.).

Additionally, Karlgren (1933) relates it to 圍 (OC *ɢʷɯl, “to surround”), and Wang (1982) to 回 (OC *ɡuːl, “to return”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 運

1. to move; to revolve
2. to transport; to carry; to ship

   從臺灣運過嚟嘅 [Cantonese, trad.]
   从台湾运过嚟嘅 [Cantonese, simp.]

   cung⁴ toi⁴ waan¹ wan⁶ gwo³ lai⁴ ge³ [Jyutping]

   transported here from Taiwan

3. to use; to utilize
4. fortune; luck; fate
5. a surname

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (運):

• → Japanese: 運(うん) (un)
• → Korean: 운(運) (un)
• → Vietnamese: vận (運)

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Japanese

Kanji

運

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. to drive
2. to manage, to run
3. to ship, to transport
4. luck, fortune

Readings

• Go-on: うん (un, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: うん (un, Jōyō)
• Kun: はこぶ (hakobu, 運ぶ, Jōyō); めぐる (meguru, 運る); めぐらす (megurasu)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
運
うん Grade: 3
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 運 (MC hjunH).

Noun

運(うん) • (un) 

1. luck, fortune

   運(うん)がいい人(ひと)

   un ga ii hito

   a person who has good luck

Affix

運(うん) • (un) 

1. move
2. carry; transport
3. put to work; operate
4. luck; fate

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 運(うん)動(どう) (undō): athletics
• 運(うん)命(めい) (unmei): fate
• 運(うん)休(きゅう) (unkyū)

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Korean

Hanja

運 (eumhun 옮길 운 (omgil un))

1. Hanja form^? of 운 (“to move, to shift, to transfer”).

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 運 (vận, nảy, vần, vẩn, vặn, vờn)

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