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)

1. 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

	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

Characters in the same phonetic series (夗) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

Pronunciation

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/	/ʔʉɐnX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔʷiɐn/	/ʔʷɑn/	/ʔʷiɐnX/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiuɐn/	/ʔuɑn/	/ʔiuɐnX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔuan/	/ʔwan/	/ʔuanX/
Li Rong	/ʔiuɐn/	/ʔuɑn/	/ʔiuɐnX/
Wang Li	/ĭwɐn/	/uɑn/	/ĭwɐnX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔi̯wɐn/	/ʔuɑn/	/ʔi̯wɐnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yuān	wān	yuǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyun1	wun1	jyun2

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/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wān, wǎn (wan¹, wan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢ, ㄨㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun¹ / jyun²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): oan / oán

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• 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/

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• Middle Chinese: 'jwon, 'wan, 'jwonX

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*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

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 蜿

蜿

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. 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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