蜿

蜿	U+873F, 蜿 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-873F

← 蜾
[U+873E]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蝀 →
[U+8740]

Translingual

Han character

蜿 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中戈十弓山 (LIJNU), four-corner 5311₂, composition ⿰虫宛)

creep, crawl

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1088, character 8
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33210
Dae Jaweon: page 1554, character 28
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2866, character 5
Unihan data for U+873F

Chinese

trad.		蜿
simp. ^#		蜿

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): wān, wǎn (wan¹, wan³)

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄢ, ㄨㄢˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun¹ / jyun²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): oan / oán

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wān
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wan
  - Wade–Giles: wan¹
  - Yale: wān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uan
  - Palladius: вань (vanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wän⁵⁵/
- (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: jyun¹ / jyun²
  - Yale: yūn / yún
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jyn¹ / jyn²
  - Guangdong Romanization: yun¹ / yun²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːn⁵⁵/, /jyːn³⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oan
  - Tâi-lô: uan
  - Phofsit Daibuun: oafn
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /uan³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oán
  - Tâi-lô: uán
  - Phofsit Daibuun: oarn
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /uan⁵³/

Middle Chinese: 'jwon, 'wan, 'jwonX

Rime
Character	蜿	蜿	蜿
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	影 (34)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	元 (66)	桓 (62)	元 (66)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	I	III
Fanqie	於袁切	一丸切	於阮切
Baxter	'jwon	'wan	'jwonX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔʉɐn/	/ʔuɑn/	/ʔʉɐn^X/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔʷiɐn/	/ʔʷɑn/	/ʔʷiɐn^X/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiuɐn/	/ʔuɑn/	/ʔiuɐn^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔuan/	/ʔwan/	/ʔuan^X/
Li Rong	/ʔiuɐn/	/ʔuɑn/	/ʔiuɐn^X/
Wang Li	/ĭwɐn/	/uɑn/	/ĭwɐn^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔi̯wɐn/	/ʔuɑn/	/ʔi̯wɐn^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yuān	wān	yuǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyun¹	wun¹	jyun²

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*qoːn/, /*qon/, /*qonʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蜿	蜿	蜿
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	16269	16285	16294
Phonetic component	夗	夗	夗
Rime group	元	元	元
Rime subdivision	3	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	剜	鴛	婉
Old Chinese	/*qoːn/	/*qon/	/*qonʔ/

Definitions

蜿

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Compounds

蜿灗
蜿蜒 (wānyán)
蜷蜿
蜿蜿
蜿蟤
蜿蟺
蟠蜿

Japanese

Kanji

蜿

(Hyōgai kanji)

meandering

Readings

Go-on: おん (on)^{←をん (won, historical)}、わん (wan)
Kan-on: えん (en)^{←ゑん (wen, historical)}、わん (wan)

Korean

Hanja

蜿 • (won) (hangeul 원, revised won, McCune–Reischauer wŏn, Yale wen)

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