雯

雯 U+96EF, 雯 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96EF ← 雮 [U+96EE] CJK Unified Ideographs 雰 → [U+96F0]

Translingual

Han character

雯 (radical 173 雨+4, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一月卜大 (MBYK), four-corner 1040₁, composition ⿱雨文)

References

• KangXi: page 1371, character 41
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42230
• Dae Jaweon: page 1879, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4059, character 12
• Unihan data for U+96EF

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		雯

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (文) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
旻	*mrɯn
旼	*mrɯn
汶	*mrɯn, *mɯn, *mɯns
忞	*mrɯn
盿	*mrɯn
枚	*mɯːl
玫	*mɯːl
玟	*mɯːl
文	*mɯn
紋	*mɯn
蚊	*mɯn
雯	*mɯn
彣	*mɯn
馼	*mɯn
鳼	*mɯn
鼤	*mɯn, *mɯns
抆	*mɯnʔ, *mɯns
紊	*mɯns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mɯn): semantic 雨 + phonetic 文 (OC *mɯn).

Etymology

From 文 (OC *mɯn, “mark; design; pattern”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wén (wen²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁴
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): bûn

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bhung⁵

• Wu (Wiktionary): ven (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: wén
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄣˊ
    • Wade-Giles: wên²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wen
    • IPA ^(key): /u̯ən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: man⁴
    • Yale: màhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: man⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: men⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /mɐn²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bûn
    • Tâi-lô: bûn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: buun
    • IPA (Xiamen): /bun²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bun²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bun¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /bun²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bun²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bhung⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: bûng
    • IPA ^(key): /buŋ⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: ven (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /v̻əɲ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /mɨun/▼

Rime
Character	雯
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	文 (59)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	無分切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mɨun/
Pan Wuyun	/miun/
Shao Rongfen	/miuən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mun/
Li Rong	/miuən/
Wang Li	/mĭuən/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯uən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wén

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*mɯn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	雯
Reading #	1/1
No.	13018
Phonetic component	文
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	文
Old Chinese	/*mɯn/

Definitions

雯

1. multicoloured clouds

Compounds

• 雯華／雯华

• 雯蓋／雯盖

• 青雯

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Japanese

Kanji

雯

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ぶん (bun), もん (mon)

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Korean

Hanja

雯 • (mun) (hangeul 문, revised mun, McCune-Reischauer mun, Yale mun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

雯 (văn)

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