蜿

蜿

蜿 U+873F, 蜿 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-873F ← 蜾 [U+873E] CJK Unified Ideographs 蝀 → [U+8740]

Translingual

Han character

蜿 (radical 142, 虫+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中戈十弓山 (LIJNU), four-corner 5311₂, composition ⿰虫宛)

1. creep, crawl

References

• KangXi: page 1088, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33210
• Dae Jaweon: page 1554, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2866, character 5
• Unihan data for U+873F

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		蜿

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): wān (wan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun¹, jyun²
• Min Nan (POJ): oan / oán

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: wān
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢ
    • Wade–Giles: wan¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uan
    • IPA ^(key): /u̯än⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyun¹, jyun²
    • Yale: yūn, yún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn¹, jyn²
    • Guangdong Romanization: yun¹, yun²
    • IPA ^(key): /jyːn⁵⁵/, /jyːn³⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oan
    • Tâi-lô: uan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oafn
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /uan³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oán
    • Tâi-lô: uán
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oarn
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /uan⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʔʉɐn/, /ʔuɑn/, /ʔʉɐn^X/▼

Rime
Character	蜿	蜿	蜿
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	影 (34)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	元 (66)	桓 (62)	元 (66)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	I	III
Fanqie	於袁切	一丸切	於阮切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔʉɐn/	/ʔuɑn/	/ʔʉɐnX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔʷiɐn/	/ʔʷɑn/	/ʔʷiɐnX/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiuɐn/	/ʔuɑn/	/ʔiuɐnX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔuan/	/ʔwan/	/ʔuanX/
Li Rong	/ʔiuɐn/	/ʔuɑn/	/ʔiuɐnX/
Wang Li	/ĭwɐn/	/uɑn/	/ĭwɐnX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔi̯wɐn/	/ʔuɑn/	/ʔi̯wɐnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yuān	wān	yuǎn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*qoːn/, /*qon/, /*qonʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蜿	蜿	蜿
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	16269	16285	16294
Phonetic component	夗	夗	夗
Rime group	元	元	元
Rime subdivision	3	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	剜	鴛	婉
Old Chinese	/*qoːn/	/*qon/	/*qonʔ/

Definitions

蜿

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Compounds

蜷蜿 蜿蜒 (wānyán)

蜿蜿 蜿蟤

蜿蟺 (wānshàn)

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Japanese

Kanji

蜿

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. meandering

Readings

• Go-on: おん (on)^{←をん (won, historical)}; わん (wan)
• Kan-on: えん (en)^{←ゑん (wen, historical)}; わん (wan)

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Korean

Hanja

蜿 • (won) (hangeul 원, revised won, McCune–Reischauer wŏn, Yale wen)

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