婉

婉	U+5A49, 婉 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A49

← 婈
[U+5A48]

CJK Unified Ideographs

婊 →
[U+5A4A]

Translingual

Han character

婉 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女十弓山 (VJNU), four-corner 4341₂, composition ⿰女宛)

Derived characters

𦹅

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 264, character 12
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6396
Dae Jaweon: page 531, character 4
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1062, character 2
Unihan data for U+5A49

Chinese

trad.		婉
simp. ^#		婉

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

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wǎn (wan³)

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun² / wun²
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): oán

(Teochew, Peng'im): uang² / uêng²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wǎn
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wǎn
  - Wade–Giles: wan³
  - Yale: wǎn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woan
  - Palladius: вань (vanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wän²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: jyun² / wun²
  - Yale: yún / wún
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jyn² / wun²
  - Guangdong Romanization: yun² / wun²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːn³⁵/, /wuːn³⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oán
  - Tâi-lô: uán
  - Phofsit Daibuun: oarn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /uan⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /uan⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /uan⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /uan⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /uan⁴¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: uang² / uêng²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: uáng / uéng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /uaŋ⁵²/, /ueŋ⁵²/

Note:

uang2 - Shantou;
uêng2 - Chaozhou.

Middle Chinese: 'jwonX

Rime
Character	婉
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	元 (66)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	於阮切
Baxter	'jwonX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔʉɐn^X/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔʷiɐn^X/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiuɐn^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔuan^X/
Li Rong	/ʔiuɐn^X/
Wang Li	/ĭwɐn^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔi̯wɐn^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yuǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyun²

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[ʔ]o[n]ʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*qonʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	婉
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔjwon^X ›
Old Chinese	/*[ʔ]o[n]ʔ/
English	beautiful
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	婉
Reading #	1/1
No.	16290
Phonetic component	夗
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*qonʔ/

Definitions

婉

(literary) gentle; tender; tactful
(literary) beautiful; graceful; elegant

Compounds

和婉
委婉 (wěiwǎn)
婉勸 / 婉劝
婉和
婉商
婉妙
婉娩
婉婉
婉媚
婉嫕 (wǎnyì)
婉嫛
婉孌 / 婉娈
婉容
婉戀 / 婉恋
婉拒 (wǎnjù)
婉曲
婉瘱 / 婉𪽷 (wǎnyì)
婉約 / 婉约
婉約派 / 婉约派
婉縟 / 婉缛
婉言 (wǎnyán)
婉詞 / 婉词 (wǎncí)
婉謝 / 婉谢
婉轉 / 婉转 (wǎnzhuǎn)
婉辭 / 婉辞 (wǎncí)
婉順 / 婉顺
婉麗 / 婉丽
幽婉
悽婉 / 凄婉
淒婉 / 凄婉
溫婉 / 温婉 (wēnwǎn)
燕婉
風流婉轉 / 风流婉转

References

“婉”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

婉

(Hyōgai kanji)

graceful

Readings

On (unclassified): えん (en)
Kun: うつくしい (utsukushii, 婉しい)

Compounds

婉曲

Korean

Hanja

婉 (eum 완, 원 (wan, won))

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Vietnamese

Han character

婉: Hán Nôm readings: uyển, uốn

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