Definify.com

Definition 2024

圓

圓

圓 U+5713, 圓
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5713
← 園
[U+5712] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 圔 →
[U+5714]
See also: 圆, 円, 圎, and 圜

Translingual

Traditional 圓
Shinjitai 円
Simplified 圆

Han character

圓 (radical 31 囗+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 田口月金 (WRBC), four-corner 60806, composition ⿴囗員)

  1. circle

References

  • KangXi: page 220, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4819
  • Dae Jaweon: page 451, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 724, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+5713

Chinese

trad. 圓
simp. 圆
alt. forms 円 Japanese yen only

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 圓
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (員) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
員 *ɢon, *ɢun
圓 *ɢon
塤 *qʰon
損 *sqʰuːnʔ
縜 *ɢun
隕 *ɢunʔ
殞 *ɢunʔ
溳 *ɢunʔ, *ɢun
磒 *ɢunʔ
霣 *ɢunʔ
愪 *ɢunʔ, *ɢun
勛 *qʰun
鄖 *ɢun
篔 *ɢun
貟 *ɢun, *ɢuns
韻 *ɢʷɯns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɢon) : semantic 囗 + phonetic 員 ‎(OC *ɢon, *ɢun).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 圓 圓
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 邪 (17) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 仙 (78) 仙 (80)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III Chongniu III
Fanqie 似宣切 王權切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ziuᴇn/ /ɦˠiuᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /zʷiɛn/ /ɦʷᵚiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /zjuæn/ /ɣiuæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /zwian/ /ɦwian/
Li
Rong		 /ziuɛn/ /ɣjuɛn/
Wang
Li		 /zĭwɛn/ /ɣĭwɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /zi̯wɛn/ /i̯wɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xuán yuán
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 圓
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yuán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hjwen ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷ<r>en/
English round

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 圓
Reading # 1/1
No. 16200
Phonetic
component		 員
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 貟
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢon/
Notes 同圜

Definitions

圓

  1. (mathematics) circle
  2. (Beginning Mandarin) circular, round
  3. yen (Japanese currency)

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai 円
Simplified 圆
Traditional 圓

Kanji

圓

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 円)

  1. round; circle
  2. yen

Readings

Kanji in this term
圓
えん
Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

Noun

圓 ‎(kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai kanji 円, hiragana えん, romaji en, historical hiragana ゑん)

  1. yen
  2. circle

Korean

Hanja in this term
圓

Hanja

圓 • ‎(won)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 원 (McCune-Reischauer: wŏn)
  • Name (hangeul): 둥글 (McCune-Reischauer: tunggŭl)
  1. won, circle

Noun

圓 • ‎(won) ‎(hangeul 원)

  1. Hanja form? of 원, “won, circle”.

Vietnamese

Han character

圓 (viên, vin)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Similar Results