員

See also: 员
員 U+54E1, 員
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54E1
← 哠
[U+54E0] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 哢 →
[U+54E2]

Translingual

Han character

員 (radical 30, 口+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 口月山金 (RBUC), four-corner 60806, composition ⿱口貝)

References
  • KangXi: page 189, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3633
  • Dae Jaweon: page 409, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 628, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+54E1

Chinese
trad. 員
simp. 员
variant forms 𪔅

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 員
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (員) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
員 *ɢon, *ɢun
圓 *ɢon
塤 *qʰon
損 *sqʰuːnʔ
縜 *ɢun
隕 *ɢunʔ
殞 *ɢunʔ
溳 *ɢunʔ, *ɢun
磒 *ɢunʔ
霣 *ɢunʔ
愪 *ɢunʔ, *ɢun
勛 *qʰun
鄖 *ɢun
篔 *ɢun
貟 *ɢun, *ɢuns
韻 *ɢʷɯns

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : a 〇 indicating the top edge of a 鼎 (“ding”) - round.

Pronunciation 1
Note:
  • îⁿ - vernacular;
  • oân, goân - literary.
Note:
  • uêng5 - Chaozhou;
  • uang5 - Shantou.
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 員
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yuán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hjwen ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷ<r>en/
English circle; round

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 員
Reading # 1/2
No. 16199
Phonetic
component		 員
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 貟
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢon/
Notes 甲金文象鼎口爲圓初文

Definitions

員

  1. member
  2. personnel; staff member
  3. † Original form of 圓／圆 (yuán, “circle; round”).

Compounds
Derived terms from 員

Pronunciation 2
Rime
Character 員
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 文 (59)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 王分切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦɨun/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦiun/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣiuən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦun/
Li
Rong		 /ɣiuən/
Wang
Li		 /ɣĭuən/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯uən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yún
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 員
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yún
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hjun ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ]ʷə[n]/
English (a particle)

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 員
Reading # 2/2
No. 16215
Phonetic
component		 員
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 雲
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢun/
Notes 貟字注説文作員

Definitions

員

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Compounds
Derived terms from 員

Pronunciation 3

Definitions

員

  1. A surname​.

Japanese

Kanji
員

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Etymology
Kanji in this term
員
いん
Grade: 3
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 員 (MC ɦɨun).

Pronunciation

Noun

員 (hiragana いん, rōmaji in, historical hiragana ゐん)

  1. (literary) member

Derived terms
  • 員 (いん)に備 (そな)わるのみ (in ni sonawaru nomi)

Suffix

員 (hiragana いん, rōmaji -in, historical hiragana ゐん)

  1. member
    公 (こう)務 (む)員 (いん) ― kōmuin ― public sector workers, civil servants

Affix

員 (hiragana いん, rōmaji in, historical hiragana ゐん)

  1. member

Derived terms
Derived terms

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

Korean

Hanja

員 • (won) (hangeul 원)

  1. person, personnel, employee, member

Vietnamese

Han character

員 (viên, von)

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