蘊

蘊

See also: 藴 and 蕴

蘊 U+860A, 蘊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-860A ← 蘉 [U+8609] CJK Unified Ideographs 蘋 → [U+860B]

Translingual

Traditional	蘊
Shinjitai (extended)	藴
Simplified	蕴

Han character

蘊 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+16, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿女火廿 (TVFT), four-corner 4491₇, composition ⿱艹縕)

Derived characters

• 𢺝

References

• KangXi: page 1068, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32434
• Dae Jaweon: page 1534, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3323, character 13
• Unihan data for U+860A

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Chinese

trad.		蘊/藴
simp.		蕴
alternative forms		薀／蕰

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
媪
蝹	*quːʔ, *qrun, *qun
溫	*quːn
𥁕	*quːn
輼	*quːn
蕰	*quːn, *qunʔ, *quns
殟	*quːn, *quːd
豱	*quːn
緼	*quːn, *qun, *qunʔ, *quns
韞	*quːn, *qunʔ
瘟	*quːn
揾	*quːns, *qunʔ, *quːd
氲	*qun
煴	*qun, *quns
馧	*qun, *quːd
蒀
藴	*qun, *qunʔ
褞	*qunʔ
醖
慍	*quns
蘊	*quns
腽	*quːd
榅	*quːd
嗢	*quːd, *qruːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *quns) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 縕.

Etymology 1

Compare 韞／韫 (yùn).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yùn (yun⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wan⁵, wan³, wan²
• Min Dong (BUC): ūng
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): ùn

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ung²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yùn
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yùn
    • Wade–Giles: yün⁴
    • Yale: yùn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yunn
    • Palladius: юнь (junʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /yn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: wan⁵, wan³, wan²
    • Yale: wáhn, wan, wán
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wan⁵, wan³, wan²
    • Guangdong Romanization: wen⁵, wen³, wen²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐn¹³/, /wɐn³³/, /wɐn³⁵/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ūng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /uŋ³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ùn
    • Tâi-lô: ùn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: uxn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /un²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /un⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /un²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /un¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /un²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ung²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: úng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /uŋ⁵²/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʔɨun/

Rime
Character	蘊
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	文 (59)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	於云切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɨun/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔiun/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiuən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔun/
Li Rong	/ʔiuən/
Wang Li	/ĭuən/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔi̯uən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yūn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wan1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*quns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蘊
Reading #	1/1
No.	12998
Phonetic component	昷
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	醖
Old Chinese	/*quns/

Definitions

蘊

1. (literary) to accumulate; to hold in store; to contain
2. (literary) profoundness; profundity
3. (Buddhism) skandha

Compounds

五蘊／五蕴 (wǔyùn) 內蘊／内蕴 包蘊／包蕴 (bāoyùn) 含蘊／含蕴 富蘊／富蕴 (Fùyùn) 底蘊／底蕴 (dǐyùn) 意蘊／意蕴 (yìyùn) 水蘊草／水蕴草

玄蘊／玄蕴 義蘊／义蕴 (yìyùn) 蘊压／蕴压 蘊含／蕴含 (yùnhán) 蘊和／蕴和 蘊崇／蕴崇 蘊年／蕴年 蘊意／蕴意 (yùnyì)

蘊涵／蕴涵 (yùnhán) 蘊結／蕴结 蘊聚／蕴聚 蘊蓄／蕴蓄 (yùnxù) 蘊藉／蕴借 蘊藏／蕴藏 (yùncáng) 蘊藹／蕴蔼 蘊蘊／蕴蕴

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wēn (wen¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wēn
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wun
    • Wade–Giles: wên¹
    • Yale: wēn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uen
    • Palladius: вэнь (vɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: wan¹
    • Yale: wān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐn⁵⁵/

Definitions

蘊

1. ^† mare's tail, water plants of the genus Hippuris

Compounds

蘊草／蕴草

蘊藻／蕴藻

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Japanese

Shinjitai	藴
Kyūjitai	蘊

Kanji

蘊

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 藴)

1. pile up
2. deep inside
3. aggregate

Readings

• Go-on: うん (un); おん (on)^{←をん (won, historical)}
• Kan-on: うん (un); おん (on)^{←をん (won, historical)}
• Kun: おさめる (osameru, 蘊める)^{←をさめる (wosameru, historical)}; たくわえる (takuwaeru, 蘊える)^{←たくはへる (takufaferu, historical)}; つむ (tsumu, 蘊む)
• Nanori: おさむ (osamu)^{←をさむ (wosamu, historical)}

Compounds

Compounds

• 蘊(うん)奥(おう) (un'ō), 蘊(うん)奥(のう) (unnō, “mysteries”)
• 蘊(うん)藉(しゃ) (unsha)
• 蘊(うん)蓄(ちく) (unchiku, “vast stock of knowledge”)
• 行(ぎょう)蘊(うん) (gyōun)
• 五(ご)蘊(うん) (goun, “five skandhas of Buddhism”)
• 色(しき)蘊(うん) (shikiun)
• 識(しき)蘊(うん) (shikiun)
• 受(じゅ)蘊(うん) (juun, “perception”)
• 想(そう)蘊(うん) (sōun)
• 秘(ひ)蘊(うん) (hiun)
• 余(よ)蘊(うん) (youn, “inexhaustible supply”)
• 海蘊(モズク) (mozuku): Cladosiphon okamuranus, a type of edible seaweed

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
蘊
うん Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 蘊 (MC ʔɨun).

The Buddhist sense is a translation of Sanskrit स्कन्ध (skandha, “collection, grouping, heap”)[1][2] or Pali khandha (“collection, heap”). See entry at 五蘊 (goun).

Alternative forms

• 薀

Pronunciation

• On’yomi
• IPA^(key): [ɯ̟̃ᵝɴ]

Affix

蘊(うん) • (un) 

1. pile up; gather; accumulate
2. depths; bottom; interior
3. (Buddhism) skandha (aggregate)

Noun

蘊(うん) • (un) 

1. abundance, plentifulness
2. (Buddhism) a skandha (aggregate)

   Synonym: 陰 (on)

   Hyponyms: 色 (shiki), 受 (ju), 想 (sō), 行 (gyō), 識 (shiki)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
蘊
おさむ Hyōgaiji
nanori

Proper noun

蘊(おさむ) • (Osamu) ^{←をさむ (wosamu)?}

1. a male given name

References

1. 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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Korean

Hanja

蘊 • (on) (hangeul 온, revised on, McCune–Reischauer on, Yale on)

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Compounds

• 五蘊 (오온, oon): the five skandhas of Buddhism

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Vietnamese

Han character

蘊: Hán Nôm readings: uẩn, uẫn

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