婉

婉

婉 U+5A49, 婉 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A49 ← 婈 [U+5A48] CJK Unified Ideographs 婊 → [U+5A4A]

Translingual

Han character

婉 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女十弓山 (VJNU), four-corner 4341₂, composition ⿰女宛)

1. amiable, congenial
2. restrained

Derived characters

• 𦹅

References

• KangXi: page 264, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6396
• Dae Jaweon: page 531, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1062, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5A49

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Chinese

trad.		婉
simp. #		婉

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
涴	*qoːls, *qoːn, *qonʔ
埦	*qoːn
豌	*qoːn
剜	*qoːn
眢	*qoːn, *qon
蜿	*qoːn, *qon, *qonʔ
帵	*qoːn
碗	*qoːnʔ
椀	*qoːnʔ
盌	*qoːnʔ
腕	*qoːns
惋	*qoːns
捥	*qoːns
睕	*qoːns, *qonʔ, *qoːd
琬	*qoːns, *qonʔ
鴛	*quːn, *qon
鵷	*qon
惌	*qon, *qonʔ
宛	*qon, *qonʔ
怨	*qon, *qons
葾	*qon
夗	*qonʔ
婉	*qonʔ
菀	*qonʔ, *qud
苑	*qonʔ, *qons
踠	*qonʔ
畹	*qonʔ, *qons
倇	*qonʔ
晼	*qonʔ
黦	*qod, *qod, *qud
焥	*qoːd

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wǎn (wan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun², wun²
• Min Nan (POJ): oán

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wǎn
    • Wade–Giles: wan³
    • Yale: wǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woan
    • Palladius: вань (vanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wän²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyun², wun²
    • Yale: yún, wún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn², wun²
    • Guangdong Romanization: yun², wun²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːn³⁵/, /wuːn³⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oán
    • Tâi-lô: uán
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oarn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /uan⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /uan⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /uan⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /uan⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /uan⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʔʉɐn^X/

Rime
Character	婉
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	元 (66)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	於阮切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔʉɐnX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔʷiɐnX/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiuɐnX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔuanX/
Li Rong	/ʔiuɐnX/
Wang Li	/ĭwɐnX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔi̯wɐnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yuǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyun2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ʔ]o[n]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qonʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	婉
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔjwonX ›
Old Chinese	/*[ʔ]o[n]ʔ/
English	beautiful
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	婉
Reading #	1/1
No.	16290
Phonetic component	夗
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	婉
Old Chinese	/*qonʔ/

Definitions

婉

1. (literary) gentle; tender; tactful
2. (literary) beautiful; graceful; elegant

Compounds

和婉 委婉 (wěiwǎn) 婉和 婉商 婉妙 婉娩 婉婉 婉媚 婉嫕 (wǎnyì) 婉嫛 婉容

婉拒 (wǎnjù) 婉曲 婉言 (wǎnyán) 幽婉 燕婉 婉勸／婉劝 婉孌／婉娈 婉戀／婉恋 婉瘱／婉𪽷 婉約／婉约 婉約派／婉约派

婉縟／婉缛 婉詞／婉词 (wǎncí) 婉謝／婉谢 婉轉／婉转 (wǎnzhuǎn) 婉辭／婉辞 (wǎncí) 婉順／婉顺 婉麗／婉丽 悽婉／凄婉 淒婉／凄婉 溫婉／温婉 (wēnwǎn) 風流婉轉／风流婉转

References

• “婉”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

婉

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. graceful

Readings

• On (unclassified): えん (en)
• Kun: うつくしい (utsukushii, 婉しい)

Compounds

• 婉曲

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Korean

Hanja

婉 (eum 완 (wan))

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Vietnamese

Han character

婉: Hán Nôm readings: uyển, uốn

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