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媛

媛

Translingual

Han character

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

  1. beauty, beautiful woman

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 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

Rime
Character 媛 媛
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 云 (35) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 元 (66) 仙 (80)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III Chongniu III
Fanqie 雨元切 王眷切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦʉɐn/ /ɦˠiuᴇnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦʷiɐn/ /ɦʷᵚiɛnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣiuɐn/ /ɣiuænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦuan/ /ɦwianH/
Li
Rong		 /ɣiuɐn/ /ɣjuɛnH/
Wang
Li		 /ɣĭwɐn/ /ɣĭwɛnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯wɐn/ /i̯wɛnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yuán yuàn
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 媛
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 16165 16178
Phonetic
component		 爰 爰
Rime
group		 元 元
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 瑗 袁
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷans/ /*ɢʷan/

Definitions

媛

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Japanese

Kanji

媛

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. princess

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

媛 • ‎(won) (hangeul 원, revised won, McCune-Reischauer wŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

媛 (viện)

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