# 婉

| 婉 | U+5A49, &#23113; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A49 |
| ← 婈 [U+5A48] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 婊 → [U+5A4A] |

## Translingual
### Han character

婉 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女十弓山 (VJNU), four-corner 4341$_2$, composition ⿰女宛)
* amiable, congenial
* restrained

#### Derived characters

* 𦹅

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 264, character 12
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6396
* Dae Jaweon: page 531, character 4
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1062, character 2
* Unihan data for U+5A49

## Chinese
### 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 |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): wǎn (wan$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun$^2$ / wun$^2$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): oán
    (Teochew, Peng'im): uang$^2$ / uêng$^2$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: wǎn
*** Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: wǎn
*** Wade–Giles: wan$^3$
*** Yale: wǎn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woan
*** Palladius: вань (vanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /wän²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: jyun$^2$ / wun$^2$
*** Yale: yún / wún
*** Cantonese Pinyin: jyn$^2$ / wun$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yun$^2$ / wun$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /jyːn³⁵/, /wuːn³⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oán
*** Tâi-lô: uán
*** Phofsit Daibuun: oarn
*** IPA (Xiamen): /uan⁵³/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /uan⁵⁵⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /uan⁵³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /uan⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /uan⁴¹/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: uang$^2$ / uêng$^2$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: uáng / uéng
*** Sinological IPA : /uaŋ⁵²/, /ueŋ⁵²/
* uang2 - Shantou;
* uêng2 - Chaozhou.
* Middle Chinese: 'jwonX
Rime :
| Character | 婉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 影 (34) |
| Final (韻) | 元 (66) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 於阮切 |
| Baxter | 'jwonX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ʔʉɐn$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʔʷiɐn$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ʔiuɐn$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʔuan$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /ʔiuɐn$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /ĭwɐn$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ʔi̯wɐn$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yuǎn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | jyun$^2$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ʔ]o[n]ʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*qonʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 婉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | wǎn |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ ʔjwon$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*[ʔ]o[n]ʔ/ |
| English | beautiful |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 婉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 16290 |
| Phonetic component | 夗 |
| Rime group | 元 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 婉 |
| Old Chinese | /*qonʔ/ |

### Definitions

婉
* (literary) gentle; tender; tactful
* (literary) beautiful; graceful; elegant

#### Compounds

* 和婉
* 委婉 (wěiwǎn)
* 婉勸／婉劝
* 婉和
* 婉商
* 婉妙
* 婉娩
* 婉婉
* 婉媚
* 婉嫕 (wǎnyì)
* 婉嫛
* 婉孌／婉娈
* 婉容
* 婉戀／婉恋
* 婉拒 (wǎnjù)
* 婉曲
* 婉瘱／婉𪽷 (wǎnyì)
* 婉約／婉约
* 婉約派／婉约派
* 婉縟／婉缛
* 婉言 (wǎnyán)
* 婉詞／婉词 (wǎncí)
* 婉謝／婉谢
* 婉轉／婉转 (wǎnzhuǎn)
* 婉辭／婉辞 (wǎncí)
* 婉順／婉顺
* 婉麗／婉丽
* 幽婉
* 悽婉／凄婉
* 淒婉／凄婉
* 溫婉／温婉 (wēnwǎn)
* 燕婉
* 風流婉轉／风流婉转

### References

* “婉”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* graceful

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): えん (en)
* Kun: うつくしい (utsukushii, 婉しい)

#### Compounds

* 婉曲

## Korean
### Hanja

婉 (eum 완, 원 (wan, won))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

婉: Hán Nôm readings: uyển, uốn
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