媛

媛

媛 U+5A9B, 媛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A9B ← 媚 [U+5A9A] CJK Unified Ideographs 媜 → [U+5A9C]

Translingual

Han character

媛 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女月一水 (VBME), four-corner 4244₇, composition ⿰女爰)

Derived characters

• 𮑘

References

• KangXi: page 267, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6516
• Dae Jaweon: page 534, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1067, character 12
• Unihan data for U+5A9B

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Chinese

trad.		媛
simp. #		媛

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

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yuàn, yuán (yuan⁴, yuan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄢˋ, ㄩㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland, literary variant in Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yuàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yuàn
    • Wade–Giles: yüan⁴
    • Yale: ywàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuann
    • Palladius: юань (juanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɥɛn⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yuán
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yuán
    • Wade–Giles: yüan²
    • Yale: ywán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuan
    • Palladius: юань (juanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɥɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyun⁶
    • Yale: yuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yun⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːn²²/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦˠiuᴇn^H/

Rime
Character	媛
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	仙 (80)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	王眷切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠiuᴇnH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷᵚiɛnH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiuænH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwianH/
Li Rong	/ɣjuɛnH/
Wang Li	/ɣĭwɛnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯wɛnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yuàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyun6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷra[n]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷans/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	媛
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yuàn
Middle Chinese	‹ hjwenH ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ʷra[n]-s/
English	a beauty
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	媛
Reading #	1/2
No.	16165
Phonetic component	爰
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	瑗
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷans/

Definitions

媛

1. (literary) beauty; beautiful woman

   Synonym: 美女 (měinǚ)

   • 子之清揚，揚且之顏也。展如之人兮，邦之媛也。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     子之清扬，扬且之颜也。展如之人兮，邦之媛也。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Zǐ zhī qīng yáng, yáng qiě zhī yán yě. Zhǎn rú zhī rén xī, bāng zhī yuàn yě. [Pinyin]

     Clear are her eyes; fine is her forehead;
     Full are her temples.
     Ah! Such a woman as this!
     The beauty of the country!

2. (archaic) beautiful; fine

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yuán (yuan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wun⁴, jyun⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yuán
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yuán
    • Wade–Giles: yüan²
    • Yale: ywán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuan
    • Palladius: юань (juanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɥɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: wun⁴, jyun⁴
    • Yale: wùhn, yùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wun⁴, jyn⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: wun⁴, yun⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuːn²¹/, /jyːn²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦʉɐn/

Rime
Character	媛
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	元 (66)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	雨元切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦʉɐn/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷiɐn/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiuɐn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦuan/
Li Rong	/ɣiuɐn/
Wang Li	/ɣĭwɐn/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯wɐn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yuán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyun4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷan/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	媛
Reading #	2/2
No.	16178
Phonetic component	爰
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	袁
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷan/

Definitions

媛

1. Only used in 嬋媛／婵媛 (chányuán).

Compounds

令媛 (lìngyuàn) 名媛 (míngyuàn) 天媛 媛女

才媛 淑媛 英媛 邦媛

嬋媛／婵媛 (chányuán) 嬙媛／嫱媛 結媛／结媛

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Japanese

Shinjitai	媛
Kyūjitai [1]	媛󠄁 媛+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	媛󠄃 媛+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

媛

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. princess
2. a beauty; a beautiful woman

Readings

• Go-on: おん (on)^{←をん (won, historical)}
• Kan-on: えん (en, Jōyō)^{←ゑん (wen, historical)}
• Kun: ひめ (hime, 媛)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
媛
えん Grade: 4
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 媛 (MC ɦˠiuᴇn^H).

Pronunciation

• On’yomi
• IPA^(key): [ẽ̞ɴ]

Affix

媛(えん) • (en) ^{←ゑん (wen)?}

1. a beauty; a beautiful woman

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 名媛(めいえん) (meien): famous woman
• 才媛(さいえん) (saien): talented woman

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
媛
ひめ Grade: 4
kun’yomi

Noun

媛(ひめ) • (hime) 

1. Alternative form of 姫

References

1. “媛”, in 漢字ぺディア (Kanjipedia)‎ (in Japanese), 日本漢字能力検定協会, 2015—2023

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Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 媛 (MC ɦʉɐn).

Hanja

Wikisource媛 (eumhun 미녀 원 (minyeo won))

1. Hanja form^? of 원 (“a beauty”).

Compounds

Compounds

• 원비 (媛妃, wonbi)
• 방원 (邦媛, bang'won)
• 선원 (仙媛, seonwon)
• 소원 (昭媛, sowon)
• 양원/량원 (良媛, yang'won/ryang'won)
• 영원/령원 (令媛, yeong'won/ryeong'won)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

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Vietnamese

Han character

媛: Hán Nôm readings: viện

1. a beauty; a beautiful woman