媛

媛	U+5A9B, 媛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A9B

← 媚
[U+5A9A]

CJK Unified Ideographs

媜 →
[U+5A9C]

Translingual

Han character

媛 (radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女月一水 (VBME), four-corner 4244₇, composition ⿰女爰)

References

KangXi: page 267, character 11

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6516

Dae Jaweon: page 534, character 13

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1067, character 12

Unihan data for U+5A9B

Chinese

simp. and trad.		媛

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (爰) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
暖	*noːnʔ
煖	noːnʔ, qʰʷan
喛	qʰʷaːns, qʰʷan
緩	*ɢʷaːnʔ
鰀	*ɢʷaːnʔ
嵈	*ɢʷaːnʔ
鍰	*ɢʷraːn
湲	*ɢʷan
媛	ɢʷans, ɢʷan
瑗	*ɢʷans
援	ɢʷans, ɢʷan
褑	*ɢʷans
諼	qʰʷan, qʰʷanʔ
愋	*qʰʷan
楥	*qʰʷans
爰	*ɢʷan
鶢	*ɢʷan
蝯	*ɢʷan
猨	*ɢʷan

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yuàn, yuán (yuan⁴, yuan²)

(Zhuyin): ㄩㄢˋ, ㄩㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland, literary variant in Taiwan)⁺
  - Pinyin: yuàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄩㄢˋ
  - Wade–Giles: yüan⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuann
  - IPA ^(key): /y̯ɛn⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan)⁺
  - Pinyin: yuán
  - Zhuyin: ㄩㄢˊ
  - Wade–Giles: yüan²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuan
  - IPA ^(key): /y̯ɛn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: jyun⁶
  - Yale: yuhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jyn⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: yun⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /jyːn²²/

Middle Chinese: /ɦˠiuᴇn^H/▼

Rime
Character	媛
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	仙 (80)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	Chongniu III
Fanqie	王眷切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠiuᴇn^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷᵚiɛn^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiuæn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwian^H/
Li Rong	/ɣjuɛn^H/
Wang Li	/ɣĭwɛn^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯wɛn^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yuàn

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷra[n]-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷans/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	媛
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yuàn
Middle Chinese	‹ hjwen^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ʷra[n]-s/
English	a beauty
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	媛
Reading #	1/2
No.	16165
Phonetic component	爰
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	瑗
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷans/

Definitions

媛

beautiful woman

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yuán (yuan²)

(Zhuyin): ㄩㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): wun⁴, jyun⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: yuán
  - Zhuyin: ㄩㄢˊ
  - Wade–Giles: yüan²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuan
  - IPA ^(key): /y̯ɛn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: wun⁴, jyun⁴
  - Yale: wùhn, yùhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: wun⁴, jyn⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: wun⁴, yun⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /wuːn²¹/, /jyːn²¹/

Middle Chinese: /ɦʉɐn/▼

Rime
Character	媛
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	元 (66)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	雨元切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦʉɐn/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷiɐn/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiuɐn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦuan/
Li Rong	/ɣiuɐn/
Wang Li	/ɣĭwɐn/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯wɐn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yuán

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷan/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	媛
Reading #	2/2
No.	16178
Phonetic component	爰
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	袁
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷan/

Definitions

媛

Only used in 嬋媛／婵媛.

Compounds

令媛
名媛 (míngyuàn)
天媛
媛女

嬋媛／婵媛
嬙媛／嫱媛
才媛

淑媛
結媛／结媛
邦媛

Japanese

Kanji

媛

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

princess

Readings

Go-on: おん (on)^{←をん (won, historical)}
Kan-on: えん (en, Jōyō)^{←ゑん (wen, historical)}
Kun: ひめ (hime, 媛)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
媛
えん Grade: S
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 媛 (MC ɦˠiuᴇn^H).

Pronunciation

On’yomi
- IPA^(key): [ẽ̞ɴ]

Affix

媛 (hiragana えん, rōmaji en, historical hiragana ゑん)

beautiful woman

Derived terms

名 (めい)媛 (えん) (meien): famous woman
才媛 (さいえん) (saien): talented woman

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
媛
ひめ Grade: S
kun’yomi

Noun

媛 (hiragana ひめ, rōmaji hime)

Alternative form of 姫

Korean

Hanja

媛 • (won) (hangeul 원, revised won, McCune–Reischauer wŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

媛 (viện)

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