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彎
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See also: 弯
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Translingual
Han character
彎 (Kangxi radical 57, 弓+19, 22 strokes, cangjie input 女火弓 (VFN), four-corner 22207, composition ⿱龻弓)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 361, character 28
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9904
- Dae Jaweon: page 680, character 6
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1005, character 22
- Unihan data for U+5F4E
Chinese
Glyph origin
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qroːn): semantic 弓 (“bow”) + phonetic 䜌 (OC *b·roːn, *b·ron, *b·rons).
Etymology
May be cognate with 迂 (OC *qʷa, *qʷaʔ, *ɢʷa).
- “homosexual”
- Semantic loan from English bent.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): waan1
- Hakka
- Jin (Wiktionary): van1
- Eastern Min (BUC): uăng
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): uang1 / uong1
- Southern Min
- Wu (Northern, Wugniu): 1ue
- 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)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: waan1
- Yale: wāan
- Cantonese Pinyin: waan1
- Guangdong Romanization: wan1
- Sinological IPA (key): /waːn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: vân
- Hakka Romanization System: vanˊ
- Hagfa Pinyim: van1
- Sinological IPA: /van²⁴/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
- Hakka Romanization System: vanˋ
- Sinological IPA: /van⁵³/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Jin
- (Taiyuan)+
- Wiktionary: van1
- Sinological IPA (old-style): /væ̃¹¹/
- (Taiyuan)+
- Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: uăng
- Sinological IPA (key): /uaŋ⁵⁵/
- (Fuzhou)
- Puxian Min
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: uang1
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: uang
- Sinological IPA (key): /uaŋ⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: uong1
- Sinological IPA (key): /uoŋ⁵⁴⁴/
- (Putian)
- Southern Min
Note:
- oaiⁿ - vernacular (“to act shamelessly; to be wronged”);
- oan - literary.
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: uêng1 / uang1
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ueng / uang
- Sinological IPA (key): /ueŋ³³/, /uaŋ³³/
- (Teochew)
- uêng1 - Chaozhou;
- uang1 - Shantou, Jieyang, Chenghai, Chaoyang.
Note:
- Dialectal data
- Middle Chinese: 'waen
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*qroːn/
Definitions
彎
- to bend; to make bent
- (Penang Hokkien) to turn; to make a turn; to change direction
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to draw a bow
- bent; curved; crooked; arched
- (neologism, slang) gay; homosexual
- bend; turn; curve; crook
- (Chinese calligraphy) a bend (such as in ㇉, ㇌, ㇟, or ㇠)
- (灣／湾 (wān))
- Classifier for bent objects, such as a quarter moon.
- (Xiamen and Quanzhou Hokkien) to act shamelessly and unreasonably; to be a rascal
- (Zhangzhou Hokkien) to be wronged
- (Suzhounese) that; those
Synonyms
Coordinate terms
Compounds
- 一彎 / 一弯
- 大轉彎 / 大转弯
- 寧折不彎 / 宁折不弯
- 彎奔 / 弯奔
- 彎子 / 弯子 (wānzi)
- 彎度 / 弯度 (wāndù)
- 彎弓 / 弯弓
- 彎弓搭箭 / 弯弓搭箭
- 彎彎曲曲 / 弯弯曲曲
- 彎曲 / 弯曲 (wānqū)
- 彎琴 / 弯琴 (wānqín)
- 彎腰駝背 / 弯腰驼背
- 彎路 / 弯路 (wānlù)
- 彎跧 / 弯跧
- 彎道 / 弯道 (wāndào)
- 彎鉤 / 弯钩 (wāngōu)
- 急彎 / 急弯 (jíwān)
- 急轉彎 / 急转弯 (jízhuǎnwān)
- 截彎取直 / 截弯取直
- 拐彎 / 拐弯 (guǎiwān)
- 拉彎兒 / 拉弯儿
- 拐彎抹角 / 拐弯抹角 (guǎiwānmòjiǎo)
- 曲曲彎彎 / 曲曲弯弯
- 曲裡拐彎 / 曲里拐弯
- 畫黛彎蛾 / 画黛弯蛾 (huàdàiwān'é)
- 盤馬彎弓 / 盘马弯弓
- 繞彎兒 / 绕弯儿
- 繞彎子 / 绕弯子 (rào wānzi)
- 臂彎 / 臂弯 (bìwān)
- 豎折彎鉤 / 竖折弯钩 (shùzhéwāngōu)
- 轉彎 / 转弯
- 轉彎子 / 转弯子
- 轉彎抹角 / 转弯抹角 (zhuǎnwānmòjiǎo)
- 遛彎兒 / 遛弯儿
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