Translingual

Han character

吻 (radical 30 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口心竹竹 (RPHH), four-corner 6702₀, composition ⿰口勿)

References

• KangXi: page 179, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3375
• Dae Jaweon: page 397, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 593, character 1
• Unihan data for U+543B

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 吻
Bamboo and silk script	Large seal script	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mɯnʔ) : semantic 口 + phonetic 勿 ‎(OC *mɯd).

Etymology

Unknown. Various possibilities are (Schuessler, 2007):

• Related to 門 (OC *mɯːn, “door”);
• Related to Mizo hmûi ‎(“lips; upper lip”);
• Related to Proto-Vietic *c-ɓuːj(ʔ) ‎(“lip”) (Vietnamese môi);
• Related to Burmese မုတ် ‎(mut, “mouth”) (in မုတ်ဆိတ် ‎(muthcit, “beard”)) and မှုတ် ‎(hmut, “to blow with mouth”);
• Related to Khmer មាត់ ‎(méat, “mouth, lip”).

Pronunciation

Definitions

吻

1. ^†(anatomy) lip; corner of the lips

   吻合  ―  wěnhé  ―  to tally [lit. lips close]

2. ^† to shut the lips
3. to kiss; kiss

   《再吻我吧》 [Literary Cantonese]  ―  "zoi³man⁵ ngo⁵ baa⁶" [Jyutping]  ―  "Won't You Kiss Me Again" [song name]

4. ^† to coincide; to tally; to be consistent

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• Goon: もん (mon)
• Kan’on: ぶん (bun)
• Kan’yōon: ふん (fun)
• Kun: くちさき (kuchisaki)

Compounds

• 接吻 (せっぷん) ‎(seppun, “kiss”)

Pronunciation

• Kan'yōyomi
• (Tokyo) ふ​ん [fúꜜǹ] (Atamadaka - [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̃ᵝɴ]

Noun

吻 ‎(hiragana ふん, romaji fun)

1. (anatomy) proboscis

References

1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

吻 • ‎(mun) (hangeul 문, revised mun, McCune-Reischauer mun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

吻 (vẫn, vặt, vẩn)

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