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彎
彎
See also: 弯
Translingual
Han character
彎 (radical 57 弓+19, 22 strokes, cangjie input 女火弓 (VFN), four-corner 22207, composition ⿱䜌弓)
References
- KangXi: page 361, character 28
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9904
- Dae Jaweon: page 680, character 6
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1005, character 22
- Unihan data for U+5F4E
Chinese
| trad. | 彎 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 弯 | |
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 |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qroːn) : semantic 弓 (“bow”) + phonetic 䜌 (OC *b·roːn, *b·ron, *b·rons), “to draw a bow”.
Etymology
May be cognate with 迂 (OC *qʷa, *qʷaʔ, *ɢʷa).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): waan1
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): vân
- Min Dong (BUC): uăng
- Min Nan (POJ): oaiⁿ / oan
- Wu (Wiktionary): ue (T1)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄨㄢ
- Wade-Giles: wan1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uan
- IPA (key): /u̯a̠n⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: waan1
- Yale: wāan
- Cantonese Pinyin: waan1
- IPA (key): /wɑːn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: vân
- Hakka Romanization System: van´
- Hagfa Pinyim: van1
- IPA: /van²⁴/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: uăng
- IPA (key): /uaŋ⁵⁵/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oaiⁿ / oan
- Tâi-lô: uainn / uan
- Phofsit Daibuun: voay, oafn
- IPA (Xiamen): /uãi⁴⁴/, /uan⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /uãi³³/, /uan³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /uãi⁴⁴/, /uan⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /uãi⁴⁴/, /uan⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /uãi⁴⁴/, /uan⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: ue (T1)
- IPA (key): /ɯᴇ⁵³/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 彎 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /uan⁵⁵/ |
| Harbin | /uan⁴⁴/ | |
| Tianjin | /van²¹/ | |
| Jinan | /vã²¹³/ | |
| Qingdao | /vã²¹³/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /uan²⁴/ | |
| Xi'an | /uã²¹/ | |
| Xining | /uã²¹³/ | |
| Yinchuan | /van⁴⁴/ | |
| Lanzhou | /vɛ̃n³¹/ | |
| Ürümqi | /van⁴⁴/ | |
| Wuhan | /uan⁵⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /uan⁵⁵/ | |
| Guiyang | /uan⁵⁵/ | |
| Kunming | /uã̠⁴⁴/ | |
| Nanjing | /uaŋ³¹/ | |
| Hefei | /uæ̃²¹/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /væ̃¹¹/ |
| Pingyao | /uɑŋ¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /væ̃³¹/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /ue⁵³/ |
| Suzhou | /ue̞⁵⁵/ | |
| Hangzhou | /ʔuõ³³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /v̠a³³/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /uɛ³¹/ |
| Tunxi | /uːə¹¹/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /uan³³/ |
| Xiangtan | /uan³³/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /uan⁴²/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /van⁴⁴/ |
| Taoyuan | /vɑn²⁴/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /wan⁵³/ |
| Nanning | /wan⁵⁵/ | |
| Hong Kong | /wan⁵⁵/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) |
/uan⁵⁵/ /uãi⁵⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /uaŋ⁴⁴/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /yiŋ⁵⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /uaŋ³³/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /uaŋ²³/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 彎 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 影 (34) |
| Final (韻) | 刪 (70) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | II |
| Fanqie | 烏關切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ʔˠuan/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ʔʷᵚan/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ʔuɐn/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ʔwaɨn/ |
| Li Rong |
/ʔuan/ |
| Wang Li |
/wan/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ʔwan/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
wān |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 彎 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 8626 |
| Phonetic component |
|
| Rime group |
元 |
| Rime subdivision |
3 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
彎 |
| Old Chinese |
/*qroːn/ |
Definitions
彎
- to bend; to make bent
- † to draw a bow
- bent; curved; crooked; arched
- (neologism, opposite of 直 (“straight”)) gay; homosexual
- 彎男／弯男
- 變彎／变弯
- a bend; turn; curve; crook
- (Chinese calligraphy) a bend (such as in ㇉, ㇌, ㇟, or ㇠)
- (灣／湾 (wān))
- Classifier for bent objects, such as a quarter moon.
Coordinate terms
Compounds
Descendants
Japanese
Kanji
彎
(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 弯)
- bend, curve
- stretching a bow
Readings
Etymology
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 彎 |
|
わん Hyōgaiji |
| on'yomi |
From Middle Chinese 彎 (*quan). Compare modern Mandarin traditional 彎 and simplified 弯 (wān).
Note that this character is replaced in modern Japanese by the simplified character 湾 (wan), rather than the simplified Chinese character 弯 (wān, “bend, curve”). The Japanese simplified version means bay or inlet when used on its own, but now also includes the bend, curve meanings when used in compounds.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
彎 (kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai kanji 弯, hiragana わん, romaji wan)
Derived terms
Derived terms
References
- ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
Korean
Hanja
彎 • (man) (hangeul 만, revised man, McCune-Reischauer man, Yale man)
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Vietnamese
Han character
彎 (loan, thoăn)
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