然

然 (radical 86, 火+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 月大火 (BKF), four-corner 2333₃, composition ⿱肰灬)

• 燃, 橪, 㒄, 撚, 㜣, 繎, 嘫

• KangXi: page 675, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19149
• Dae Jaweon: page 1086, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2213, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7136

Historical forms of the character 然
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *njen) : phonetic 肰 (OC *njen, “dog meat”) + semantic 火 (“fire”) – to burn. Also ideogrammic compound (會意) . The derivative 燃 (OC *njen) stands for the original word in Modern Chinese.

Note that the upper left component is analyzed as 肉 (meat), and in the component 肰 it is drawn as a tilted 月 (“moon”), appearing more like 夕 (“evening”) with an extra stroke; compare 祭, 將.

然

1. ^† so; thus; in this manner; like this
   • 然後 / 然后  ―  ránhòu  ―  then [lit. after things turn out this way]
   • 不然  ―  bùrán  ―  or else, otherwise [lit. not so]
   • 非然也。 [Classical Chinese]  ―  Fēi rán yě. [Pinyin]  ―  It is not so. / That is not how it is.
2. ^† Suffix forming adverbs, sometimes also adjectives, with an abstract meaning of “in the manner of, like”.
   • 顯然 / 显然  ―  xiǎnrán  ―  apparently, obviously
   • 果然  ―  guǒrán  ―  as expected [lit. as a result]
   • 龐然大物 / 庞然大物  ―  pángrándàwù  ―  giant, something enormous [lit. a bigly big thing]
   • 喟然長嘆 / 喟然长叹  ―  kuìránchángtàn  ―  to sigh (with 喟 being an onomatopoeia)
3. ^† but
   • 然而  ―  rán'ér  ―  but

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. suffix after nouns to express likeness
2. and; and then
3. so, be as it is
4. and therefore
5. however (as shikashi)
6. a certain thing

• Go-on: ねん (nen, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ぜん (zen, Jōyō)
• Kun: もえる (moeru, 然える); しかれども (shikaredomo, 然れども); しかして (shikashite, 然して)

From Middle Chinese 然 (nyen, “-like”).

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • IPA^(key): [d͡zẽ̞ɴ]

然 (hiragana ぜん, rōmaji -zen)

1. Indicates a state (no specific semantic content)

• Halpern, Jack: New Japanese-English Character Dictionary -Kenkyusha 1990

然 • (yeon) (hangeul 연, revised yeon, McCune–Reischauer yŏn, Yale yen)

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然 (nhiên)

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