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Translingual

Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Han character

(radical 139 +13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿廿弓日山 (TTNAU), composition)

  1. beautiful, sexy, voluptuous

References

  • KangXi: page 1014, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30632
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1474, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3073, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+8276

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form )

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Readings

Compounds

  • 艶姿 (えんし) (enshi): alluring figure
  • 艶書 (えんしょ) (ensho): love-letter
  • 艶色 (えんしょく) (enshoku): bewitching looks; beautiful colour
  • 艶美 (えんび) (enbi): beauty, charm
  • 艶福 (えんぷく) (enpuku): success in love
  • 艶聞 (えんぶん) (enbun): love affair
  • 艶名 (えんめい) (enmei)
  • 艶冶 (えんや) (en'ya)
  • 艶容 (えんよう) (en'yō): charming look
  • 艶麗 (えんれい) (enrei): dazzling (beauty)
  • 艶種 (つやだね) (tsuyadane): love affair (rumour of)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
つや
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji , hiragana つや, romaji tsuya)

  1. lustre

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
えん
Grade: S
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Adjectival noun

(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji , -na inflection, hiragana えん, romaji en)

  1. charming
Inflection

Noun

(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji , hiragana えん, romaji en)

  1. charm

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1 2 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

Korean

Hanja

(yeom) (hangeul , revised yeom, McCune-Reischauer yŏm, Yale yem)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

(Pinyin yàn (yan4), Wade-Giles yen4)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(diễm)

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