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腕

腕

Translingual

Han character

腕 (radical 130 肉+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 月十弓山 (BJNU), four-corner 73212, composition ⿰月宛)

  1. wrist, arm

Related characters

References

  • KangXi: page 987, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29631
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1440, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2092, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+8155

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 腕

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qoːns) : semantic ⺼ ‎(“meat, body part”) + phonetic 宛 ‎(OC *qon, *qonʔ) – a part of the body.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 腕
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 烏貫切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔuɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔʷɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔuɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔwanH/
Li
Rong		 /ʔuɑnH/
Wang
Li		 /uɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔuɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 wàn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 腕
Reading # 1/1
No. 16275
Phonetic
component		 夗
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 惋
Old
Chinese		 /*qoːns/

Definitions

腕

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Japanese

Kanji

腕

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
腕
うで
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

腕 ‎(hiragana うで, romaji ude)

  1. an arm (of body)

Etymology 2

From an original form kapina, reduced first to kaɸina, then kawina, then kaina.

Pronunciation

Noun

腕 ‎(hiragana かいな, romaji kaina, historical hiragana かひな)

  1. an arm

Etymology 3

Noun

腕 ‎(hiragana ただむき, romaji tadamuki)

  1. an arm

References

  1. 1 2 3 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1 2 3 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
  3. 1 2 3 1974, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Second Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō

Korean

Hanja

腕 • ‎(wan) (hangeul 완, revised wan, McCune-Reischauer wan, Yale wan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

腕 (oản, uyển)

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