# 𥁕

| 𥁕 | U+25055, &#151637; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-25055 |
| ← 𥁔 [U+25054] | CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B | 𥁖 → [U+25056] |

## Translingual
### Han character

𥁕 (Kangxi radical 108, 皿+5, 10 strokes, composition ⿱囚皿)

#### Derived characters

* 溫, 媼, 慍, 搵, 榲, 膃, 氳, 熅, 縕, 轀, 醞, 鰮, 蒕, 薀, 蘊

#### Descendants

* 昷

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 793, character 25
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2560, character 1
* Unihan data for U+25055

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 𥁕
* Shang
* Oracle bone script
| | Old Chinese |
| 媪 |
| 蝹 | *quːʔ, *qrun, *qun |
| 溫 | *quːn |
| 𥁕 | *quːn |
| 輼 | *quːn |
| 蕰 | *quːn, *qunʔ, *quns |
| 殟 | *quːn, *quːd |
| 豱 | *quːn |
| 緼 | *quːn, *qun, *qunʔ, *quns |
| 韞 | *quːn, *qunʔ |
| 瘟 | *quːn |
| 揾 | *quːns, *qunʔ, *quːd |
| 氲 | *qun |
| 煴 | *qun, *quns |
| 馧 | *qun, *quːd |
| 蒀 |
| 藴 | *qun, *qunʔ |
| 褞 | *qunʔ |
| 醖 |
| 慍 | *quns |
| 蘊 | *quns |
| 腽 | *quːd |
| 榅 | *quːd |
| 嗢 | *quːd, *qruːd |
ideogram (指事) showing a person (人) bathing in warm water (now written 囗) in a container (皿) (Ji Xusheng, 2004) full of warm water; later replaced by its popular variant 温. See also 攸.
Alternatively, according to Xu Shen, Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 囚 (“prisoner”) + 皿 (“dish”) – feeding a prisoner from a dish. However, the shape in the oracle bones is different.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): wēn (wen$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄨㄣ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): wan$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: wēn
*** Zhuyin: ㄨㄣ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: wun
*** Wade–Giles: wên$^1$
*** Yale: wēn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uen
*** Palladius: вэнь (vɛnʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /wən⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: wan$^1$
*** Yale: wān
*** Cantonese Pinyin: wan$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: wen$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /wɐn⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: 'won
Rime :
| Character | 𥁕 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 影 (34) |
| Final (韻) | 魂 (55) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 烏渾切 |
| Baxter | 'won |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ʔuən/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʔuon/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ʔuən/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʔwən/ |
| Li Rong | /ʔuən/ |
| Wang Li | /uən/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ʔuən/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | wēn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | wan$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔˤun/
    (Zhengzhang): /*quːn/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 𥁕 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | wēn |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ ʔwon › |
| Old Chinese | /*ʔˁun/ |
| English | kind (adj.) |
| 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 | 𥁕 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 12970 |
| Phonetic component | 昷 |
| Rime group | 文 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 𥁕 |
| Old Chinese | /*quːn/ |

### Definitions

𥁕
* kind; benevolent; humane

### Usage notes

This character lacks character support in GB 18030 in mainland China and CNS11643 in Taiwan. The character 昷 (U+6637) is used instead.

### References

* (Cantonese) Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 2), p. 122

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): おん (on)
* Kun: めぐむ (megumu, 𥁕む)