彎
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Translingual
Han character
彎 (radical 57, 弓+19, 22 strokes, cangjie input 女火弓 (VFN), four-corner 22207, composition ⿱䜌弓)
References
- KangXi: page 361, character 28
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9904
- Dae Jaweon: page 680, character 6
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1005, character 22
- Unihan data for U+5F4E
Chinese
| trad. | 彎 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 弯 | |
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (䜌) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 蠻 | *mroːn |
| 矕 | *mroːnʔ |
| 變 | *prons |
| 鸞 | *b·roːn |
| 巒 | *b·roːn |
| 灤 | *b·roːn |
| 欒 | *b·roːn |
| 鑾 | *b·roːn |
| 臠 | *b·roːn, *b·ronʔ |
| 羉 | *b·roːn |
| 䜌 | *b·roːn, *b·ron, *b·rons |
| 灓 | *b·roːn, *b·roːns, *b·rons |
| 圝 | *b·roːn |
| 曫 | *b·roːn |
| 孿 | *smroːns, *smrons |
| 彎 | *qroːn |
| 灣 | *qroːn |
| 攣 | *b·ron |
| 孌 | *b·ronʔ, *b·rons |
| 戀 | *b·rons |
| 㪻 | *pʰlons, *klons |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qroːn) : semantic 弓 (“bow”) + phonetic 䜌 (OC *b·roːn, *b·ron, *b·rons).
Etymology
May be cognate with 迂 (OC *qʷa, *qʷaʔ, *ɢʷa).
Pronunciation
Definitions
彎
- to bend; to make bent
- † to draw a bow
- bent; curved; crooked; arched
- (neologism, opposite of 直 (“straight”)) gay; homosexual
- 彎男 / 弯男 ― wānnán ― (please add an English translation of this example)
- a bend; turn; curve; crook
- (Chinese calligraphy) a bend (such as in ㇉, ㇌, ㇟, or ㇠)
- (灣／湾 (wān))
- Classifier for bent objects, such as a quarter moon.
Coordinate terms
Compounds
Descendants
Japanese
Kanji
(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 弯)
- bend, curve
- stretching a bow
Readings
Etymology
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 彎 |
| わん Hyōgaiji |
| on’yomi |
From Middle Chinese 彎 (*quan). Compare modern Mandarin 彎／弯 (wān).
Note that this character is replaced in modern Japanese by the simplified character 湾 (wan), rather than the simplified Chinese character 弯 (wān, “bend, curve”). The Japanese simplified version means bay or inlet when used on its own, but now also includes the bend, curve meanings when used in compounds.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
彎 (kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai kanji 弯, hiragana わん, rōmaji wan)
Derived terms
References
- ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
Korean
Hanja
彎 • (man) (hangeul 만, revised man, McCune–Reischauer man, Yale man)
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Vietnamese
Han character
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