袁

袁 U+8881, 袁 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8881 ← 袀 [U+8880] CJK Unified Ideographs 袂 → [U+8882]

Translingual

Han character

袁 (Kangxi radical 145, 衣+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 土口竹女 (GRHV), four-corner 4073₂, composition ⿱𠮷𧘇)

Derived characters

• 㝨, 瞏(睘), 𥰟, 遠, 園, 榬, 褤, 轅(辕), 鎱, 媴, 㨬, 溒, 猿

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1113, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34152
• Dae Jaweon: page 1579, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 444, character 11
• Unihan data for U+8881

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		袁
alternative forms		𡋡 𡊮

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 袁
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
薳	*ɢʷalʔ
袁	*ɢʷan
園	*ɢʷan
轅	*ɢʷan
猿	*ɢʷan
榬	*ɢʷan
溒	*ɢʷan
遠	*ɢʷanʔ, *ɢʷans

Shuowen considers it to be a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɢʷan) : phonetic 叀 () + semantic 衣 (“clothes”).

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 袁

1. ^‡ (of clothing) long
2. a surname

   袁世凱／袁世凯  ―  Yuán Shìkǎi  ―  Yuan Shikai

   袁隆平  ―  Yuán Lóngpíng  ―  Yuan Longping

References

• “袁”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03714
• “Entry #41148”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

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Japanese

Kanji

袁

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. long kimono

Readings

• On (unclassified): えん (en)、おん (on)

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Korean

Hanja

袁 • (won) (hangeul 원, revised won, McCune–Reischauer wŏn, Yale wen)

1. robe

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Vietnamese

Han character

袁: Hán Nôm readings: viên

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