Stroke order
灣 (Kangxi radical 85,水 +22, 25 strokes,cangjie input 水女火弓 (EVFN ),four-corner 32127 ,composition ⿰氵 彎 )
Kangxi Dictionary:page 664 , character 10 Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18823 Dae Jaweon: page 1072, character 34 Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1798, character 9 Unihan data for U+7063 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 / 形声 ,OC *qroːn ): semantic 氵 ( “ water ” ) + phonetic 彎 ( OC *qroːn ) – a type of water.
Cognate with彎 (OC *qroːn , “bend; curve”) (Wang, 1982 ).
Mandarin (Standard ) (Pinyin ) :wān (wan1 )(Zhuyin ) :ㄨㄢ (Chengdu ,Sichuanese Pinyin ) :wan1 (Dungan ,Cyrillic andWiktionary ) :ван (van, I)Cantonese (Guangzhou –Hong Kong ,Jyutping ) :waan1 /waan4 (Taishan ,Wiktionary ) :van1 / van3 Gan (Wiktionary ) :uan1 Hakka (Sixian ,PFS ) :vân (Meixian ,Guangdong ) :van1 Jin (Wiktionary ) :van1 Northern Min (KCR ) :ṳíng Eastern Min (BUC ) :uăng Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing ): uang2 / uong2 / orng2 Southern Min (Hokkien ,POJ ) :oan /oân (Teochew ,Peng'im ) :uêng1 / uang1 Wu (Shanghai ,Wugniu ) :1 ueXiang (Changsha ,Wiktionary ) :uan1 Note : waan4 - used in some place names.
Note : van3 - used in some place names.
Note : orng2 - only used in
天九灣 (a place in Putian).
Note : oân - used in some place names (e.g.
臺灣 ).
Note :
uêng1 - Chaozhou; uang1 - Shantou. Zhengzhang system (2003)Character 灣 Reading # 1/1 No. 8627 Phonetic component Rime group 元 Rime subdivision 3 Corresponding MC rime 彎 Old Chinese /*qroːn/ Notes 彎 分 化 字
灣
( geography ) bend in ariver ;riverbend ( geography ) bay ;gulf ( regional , nautical ) toberth ; toanchor ; tomoor asurname In Hokkien, the character灣 is usually read asoan (e.g. in海灣 / 海湾 (hái-oan )). The reading ofoân in the context of the toponym臺灣 / 台湾 (Tâi-oân , “Taiwan”) is an exception stemming from the historical variant臺員 / 台员 . ( bend in a river ) : 河灣 / 河湾 (héwān )( bay ) : 海灣 / 海湾 (hǎiwān )( to berth ) : 停泊 (tíngbó )灣
(Hyōgai kanji , kyūjitai kanji,shinjitai form湾 )
Kyūjitai form of湾 From acorrupted or unorthodox reading influenced byMiddle Chinese 蠻 (MC maen ). Theoriginal reading is완 (wan ) based onMiddle Chinese 灣 (MC 'waen ).
Historical readings Dongguk Jeongun reading Dongguk Jeongun , 1448ᅙᅪᆫ (Yale :qwàn )Early Modern Korean Text Final (韻) Reading Samun Seonghwi , 1751刪 완 ( wan )
灣 (eumhun 물굽이 만 ( mulgubi man ) )
hanja form? of만 ( “ ( geography ) bay ;gulf ” ) [noun] 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary,전자사전/電子字典 .[1] 灣 :Hán Nôm readings:loan ,loáng ,loãng ,vịnh
bay ,gulf