暖

See also: 煖

暖 U+6696, 暖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6696 ← 暕 [U+6695] CJK Unified Ideographs 暗 → [U+6697]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

暖 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 日月一水 (ABME), four-corner 6204₇, composition ⿰日爰)

Derived characters

• 𧞈

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 498, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14064
• Dae Jaweon: page 866, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1525, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6696

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		暖
alternative forms		煖／暖 㬉 煗／暖

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
暖	*noːnʔ
煖	*noːnʔ, *qʰʷan
喛	*qʰʷaːns, *qʰʷan
緩	*ɢʷaːnʔ
鰀	*ɢʷaːnʔ
嵈	*ɢʷaːnʔ
鍰	*ɢʷraːn
湲	*ɢʷan
媛	*ɢʷans, *ɢʷan
瑗	*ɢʷans
援	*ɢʷans, *ɢʷan
褑	*ɢʷans
諼	*qʰʷan, *qʰʷanʔ
愋	*qʰʷan
楥	*qʰʷans
爰	*ɢʷan
鶢	*ɢʷan
蝯	*ɢʷan
猨	*ɢʷan

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *noːnʔ) : semantic 日 (“sun”) + phonetic 爰 (OC *ɢʷan)

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 暖

1. warm; toasty
2. to warm

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xuān (xuan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hyun¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xuān
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syuan
    • Wade–Giles: hsüan¹
    • Yale: sywān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiuan
    • Palladius: сюань (sjuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hyun¹
    • Yale: hyūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hyn¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hün¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hyːn⁵⁵/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 暖

1. Used in 暖姝.
2. Used in 暖暖 (xuānxuān).

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Shinjitai	暖
Kyūjitai	暖

Kanji

暖

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. warm

Readings

• Go-on: なん (nan)
• Kan-on: だん (dan, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: のん (non)
• Kun: あたたか (atataka, 暖か, Jōyō)、あたたかい (atatakai, 暖かい, Jōyō)、あたためる (atatameru, 暖める, Jōyō)、あたたまる (atatamaru, 暖まる, Jōyō)
• Nanori: ぬく (nuku)

Compounds

• 暖(だん)気(き) (danki)
• 暖(だん)房(ぼう) (danbō)
• 暖(だん)流(りゅう) (danryū)
• 暖(だん)炉(ろ) (danro)
• 暖簾(のれん) (noren): noren, a Japanese curtain
• 温(おん)暖(だん) (ondan)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
暖
だん Grade: 6
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 暖 (MC nwanX).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) だん [dáꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [dã̠ɴ]

Noun

暖(だん) • (dan) ^{←だん (dan)?}

1. (only in set phrases) warmth

   暖(だん)を取(と)る

   dan o toru

   to get warmth

Etymology 2

Proper noun

暖(あたた) or 暖(いふ) or 暖(うらら) or 暖(だん) or 暖(のどか) or 暖(のん) or 暖(はる) or 暖(はるか) or 暖(はるな) or 暖(ひなた) • (Atata or Ifu or Urara or Dan or Nodoka or Non or Haru or Haruka or Haruna or Hinata) 

1. a female given name

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Korean

Etymology 1

Hanja

暖 (eumhun 따뜻할 난 (ttatteuthal nan))

1. hanja form^? of 난 (“warm”)

Compounds

• 난방 (暖房, nanbang, “heating”)
• 난대 (暖流, nandae, “warm current”)
• 지구 온난화 (地球溫暖化, jigu onnanhwa, “global warming”)

Etymology 2

Hanja

暖 (eumhun 부드러울 훤 (budeureoul hwon))

1. hanja form^? of 훤 (“genial”)

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Vietnamese

Han character

暖: Hán Việt readings: huyên, noãn
暖: Nôm readings: hoãn, noãn

1. chữ Hán form of noãn (“warm”).