孌

孌

See also: 娈

孌 U+5B4C, 孌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B4C ← 孋 [U+5B4B] CJK Unified Ideographs 孍 → [U+5B4D]

Translingual

Han character

孌 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+19, 22 strokes, cangjie input 女火女 (VFV), four-corner 2240₁, composition ⿱䜌女)

1. lovely, beautiful
2. docile, obedient

Derived characters

• 𭒵

References

• KangXi: page 274, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6912
• Dae Jaweon: page 542, character 41
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1091, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5B4C

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Chinese

trad.		孌
simp.		娈
alternative forms		㜻 𡢛 𡤣 𡤨

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
蠻	*mroːn
矕	*mroːnʔ
變	*prons
鸞	*b·roːn
巒	*b·roːn
灤	*b·roːn
欒	*b·roːn
鑾	*b·roːn
臠	*b·roːn, *b·ronʔ
羉	*b·roːn
䜌	*b·roːn, *b·ron, *b·rons
灓	*b·roːn, *b·roːns, *b·rons
圝	*b·roːn
曫	*b·roːn
孿	*smroːns, *smrons
彎	*qroːn
灣	*qroːn
攣	*b·ron
孌	*b·ronʔ, *b·rons
戀	*b·rons
㪻	*pʰlons, *klons

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): luán, lüǎn, luǎn

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄢˊ, ㄌㄩㄢˇ, ㄌㄨㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lyun⁵, lyun²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: luán
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: luán
    • Wade–Giles: luan²
    • Yale: lwán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luan
    • Palladius: луань (luanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lwän³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, variant in Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lüǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄩㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lyuǎn
    • Wade–Giles: lüan³
    • Yale: lywǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: leuan
    • Palladius: люань (ljuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɥɛn²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, literary variant)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: luǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: luǎn
    • Wade–Giles: luan³
    • Yale: lwǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: loan
    • Palladius: луань (luanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lwän²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lyun⁵, lyun²
    • Yale: lyúhn, lyún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lyn⁵, lyn²
    • Guangdong Romanization: lün⁵, lün²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lyːn¹³/, /lyːn³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /liuᴇn^X/, /liuᴇn^H/

Rime
Character	孌	孌
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	仙 (78)	仙 (78)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	力兖切	力卷切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/liuᴇnX/	/liuᴇnH/
Pan Wuyun	/lʷiɛnX/	/lʷiɛnH/
Shao Rongfen	/ljuænX/	/ljuænH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lwianX/	/lwianH/
Li Rong	/liuɛnX/	/liuɛnH/
Wang Li	/lĭwɛnX/	/lĭwɛnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/li̯wɛnX/	/li̯wɛnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	luǎn	luàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lyun5	lyun6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]onʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*b·ronʔ/, /*b·rons/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	孌
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	liàn
Middle Chinese	‹ ljwenX ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]onʔ/
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	孌	孌
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	8631	8633
Phonetic component		
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	臠	戀
Old Chinese	/*b·ronʔ/	/*b·rons/
Notes		說文慕也後作戀

Definitions

孌

1. (literary) lovely; beautiful

   • 猗嗟孌兮，清揚婉兮。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     猗嗟娈兮，清扬婉兮。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

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

     Yī jiē luán xī, qīngyáng wǎn xī. [Pinyin]

     Alas for him, so beautiful! His bright eyes and high forehead, how lovely!

2. (literary) docile; obedient

Compounds

婉孌／婉娈

孌童／娈童 (luántóng)

蕃孌／蕃娈

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B00729
• “孌”, 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

孌

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ばん (ban); まん (man)
• Kan-on: れん (ren); らん (ran)
• Kun: したう (shitau, 孌); すなお (sunao, 孌); みめよい (mimeyoi, 孌い)

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Korean

Hanja

孌 (eum 련 (ryeon))

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Vietnamese

Han character

孌: Hán Nôm readings: luyến

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References

• Nom Foundation