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很

很

Translingual

Stroke order
Stroke order

Han character

很 (radical 60 彳+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹人日女 (HOAV), four-corner 27232, composition ⿰彳艮)

References

  • KangXi: page 366, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10093
  • Dae Jaweon: page 687, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 822, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5F88

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 很

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (艮) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
艱 *krɯːn
齦 *kʰrɯːnʔ, *kʰɯːnʔ, *ŋɯn
眼 *ŋrɯːnʔ
蛝 *ɡrɯːn
限 *ɡrɯːnʔ
硍 *ɡrɯːnʔ
豤 *kʰɯːnʔ, *kʰɯːnʔ, *kʰuːn
詪 *ɡlɯːnʔ, *kɯːnʔ, *kɯːns
根 *kɯːn
跟 *kɯːn
珢 *kɯːn, *kɯːns, *ŋrɯn
艮 *kɯːns
茛 *kɯːns
墾 *kʰɯːnʔ
懇 *kʰɯːnʔ
垠 *ŋɯːn, *ŋrɯn, *ŋɯn
泿 *ŋɯːn, *ŋrɯn
痕 *ɡɯːn
拫 *ɡɯːn
鞎 *ɡɯːn
很 *ɡɯːnʔ
恨 *ɡɯːns
銀 *ŋrɯn
檭 *ŋrɯn

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡɯːnʔ) : semantic 彳 + phonetic 艮 ‎(OC *kɯːns).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 很
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 痕 (53)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 胡墾切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦənX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦənX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣənX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦənX/
Li
Rong		 /ɣənX/
Wang
Li		 /ɣənX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣənX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 hèn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 很
Reading # 1/1
No. 3937
Phonetic
component		 艮
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 很
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡɯːnʔ/

Definitions

很

  1. † to disobey; to defy
  2. to try to one's utmost
  3. †Alternative form of 狠 (hěn, “cruel; savage; inhumane”).
  4. †struggle; dispute
  5. very; rather; quite
    他很高興。 / 他很高兴。  ―  Tā hěn gāoxìng.  ―  He is very happy.
    我很喜歡。 / 我很喜欢。  ―  Wǒ hěn xǐhuān.  ―  I like it very much.
    我喜歡得很。 / 我喜欢得很。  ―  Wǒ xǐhuān de hěn.  ―  I like it very much.
  6. (when linking a noun and an adjective) to be
    我很餓。 / 我很饿。  ―  Wǒ hěn è.  ―  I am hungry.

Usage notes

  • In Chinese, 是 (shì) cannot be used to mean to be if it is followed by an adjective. In those case, 是 is replaced by 很. Depending on the context, it will be translated to is very or simply to to be.
    他很高興。 / 他很高兴。  ―  Tā hěn gāoxìng.  ―  He is (very) happy.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 很 (“very; quite”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 甚
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 非常、很、十分、太
Mandarin Beijing 挺、很
Taiwan 很、挺
Tianjin 挺、很
Jinan 挺、楞
Xi'an 很
Wuhan 蠻、很
Chengdu 很
Yangzhou 蠻、稀、很
Hefei 很
Cantonese Guangzhou 好
Hong Kong 好
Taishan 好
Yangjiang 好
Gan Nanchang 蠻
Hakka Meixian 好
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 當、已、還
Liudui (S. Sixian) 蓋、盡、還
Hsinchu (Hailu) 當、已、還
Dongshi (Dabu) 當、已、還
Zhuolan (Raoping) 當、已、還
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 足、真、實在
Jin Taiyuan 很、挺
Min Bei Jian'ou 真
Min Dong Fuzhou 野、真
Min Nan Quanzhou 真、野、誠、有夠
Xiamen 真、野、誠、有夠
Zhangzhou 盡、蓋、足、足範、有夠
Taipei 真、誠
Kaohsiung 有夠、足、真、誠、蓋
Tainan 有夠、足、真、誠、蓋
Taichung 誠、蓋、足
Yilan 有夠、足、誠、盡
Lukang 真、誠
Sanxia 真、誠
Kinmen 足、誠
Magong 真、誠
Hsinchu 真、誠
Malaysia 真、誠、真正
Chaozhou 過
Wu Shanghai 蠻、老
Suzhou 蠻
Wenzhou 蠻、蒙、顯
Xiang Changsha 很、蠻
Shuangfeng 蠻

Compounds

  • 得很 (dehěn)
  • 鬥很／斗很

Japanese

Kanji

很

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

很 • ‎(heun) (hangeul 흔, revised heun, McCune-Reischauer hŭn, Yale hun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

很 (ngận, hẩn)

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