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U+4E38, 丸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E38

[U+4E37]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+4E39]
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丸 U+2F801, 丸
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F801
丽
[U+2F800]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 乁
[U+2F802]

Translingual

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Han character

(Kangxi radical 3, +2, 3 strokes, cangjie input 大弓戈 (KNI), four-corner 50017, composition (GJKV) or (HT))

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 80, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 94
  • Dae Jaweon: page 162, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 42, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+4E38
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 丸, Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) ...

Ideogram (指事), differentiated form of (OC *qonʔ), which was originally the same character.

Shuowen suggests that it is an ideogram (指事) from flipped (“to tilt”) – something that can be tilted and turned; something round.

Unrelated to the right component of characters like and , which comes from (a kneeling person with stretched arms to indicate "to hold").

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “any relation to 圓?”)

Pronunciation


Note:
  • îⁿ - vernacular;
  • oân - literary.

  • Dialectal data
More information Variety, Location ...

More information Rime, Character ...
More information Character, Reading # ...
More information Zhengzhang system (2003), Character ...

Definitions

  1. small round object; ball; pellet
       ròuwán   meatball
       dànwán   pellet
  2. (medicine) pill; bolus
       wán   medical pill
  3. Classifier for pills of Chinese medicine.
    每次   měicì fú sān wán   take three pills each time
  4. (obsolete) egg (of a bird)
  5. (obsolete) to roll into a ball
  6. a surname, Wan

Compounds

Descendants

  • Vietnamese: viên

Etymology 2

Pronunciation



More information Character, Reading # ...

Definitions

  1. used in 烏丸乌丸
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