U+543B, 吻
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-543B

[U+543A]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+543C]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 30, +4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口心竹竹 (RPHH), four-corner 67020, composition)

Derived characters

  • 𣵓, 𪷡, 𪡕, 𦮶, 𥁴, 𬠉

References

  • KangXi: page 179, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3375
  • Dae Jaweon: page 397, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 593, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+543B

Chinese

simp. and trad.
variant forms 𦝮

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*minʔ
*mɯnʔ
*mɯnʔ
*mɯnʔ, *mɯd
*buːs, *mɯnʔ
*mrɯd, *mɯd
*hmɯːd
*hmɯːd, *mɯd
*hmɯːd
*hmɯːd
*hmɯːd
*hmɯːd
*ʔmɯːd
*mɯd
*mɯd
*mɯd
*mɯd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mɯnʔ) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *mɯd).

Etymology

Unknown. Various possibilities are (Schuessler, 2007):

Pronunciation


Note:
  • Quanzhou:
    • mńg - vernacular;
    • bún - literary.
Note:
  • 3min - vernacular (e.g. 吻縫);
  • 3ven - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (59)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mɨunX/
Pan
Wuyun
/miunX/
Shao
Rongfen
/miuənX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/munX/
Li
Rong
/miuənX/
Wang
Li
/mĭuənX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mi̯uənX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
wěn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 13206
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mɯnʔ/

Definitions

  1. (anatomy) proboscis; lip; corner of the lips
       wěn   to tally [lit. lips close]
  2. to shut the lips
  3. to kiss; kiss
    [Literary Cantonese]   “zoi3 man5 ngo5 baa6 [Jyutping]   "Won't You Kiss Me Again" [song name]
  4. to coincide; to tally; to be consistent

Compounds

  • 口吻 (kǒuwěn)
  • 口吻生花
  • 吻合 (wěnhé)
  • 喉吻
  • 圓吻鯝圆吻鯝
  • 接吻 (jiēwěn)
  • 接吻病
  • 長吻魚长吻鱼
  • 飛吻飞吻 (fēiwěn)
  • 鴟吻鸱吻 (chīwěn)
  • 鴟目虎吻鸱目虎吻
  • 黃吻黄吻
  • 齒吻齿吻

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. lips
  2. kiss

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
ふん
Jinmeiyō
kan’yōon

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana ふん, rōmaji fun)

  1. (anatomy) proboscis

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

(mun) (hangeul , revised mun, McCuneReischauer mun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(vẫn, vặt, vẩn)

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