爰
See also: 爱
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Translingual
Han character
爰 (radical 87, 爪+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月一大水 (BMKE), four-corner 20447, composition ⿳爫一友)
- to lead on to
- therefore, consequently
- A surname.
Derived characters
References
- KangXi: page 689, character 5
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19672
- Dae Jaweon: page 1102, character 8
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2032, character 1
- Unihan data for U+7230
Chinese
simp. and trad. |
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Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 爰 | |||
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Shang | Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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Characters in the same phonetic series (爰) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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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 |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 爫 (“hand, claw”) + 又 (“hand”) – the middle component has taken various forms.
Pronunciation
Definitions
爰
- † therefore, consequently
- 爰采麥矣、沬之北矣。云誰之思、美孟弋矣。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Classic of Poetry, circa 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Yuán cǎi mài yǐ, Mèi zhī běi yǐ. Yún shuí zhī sī, měi mèng Yì yǐ. [Pinyin]
- I am going to gather the wheat, In the north of Mei. But of whom are my thoughts? Of that beauty, the eldest of the Yi.
爰采麦矣、沬之北矣。云谁之思、美孟弋矣。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
References
- “爰”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
Japanese
Readings
- Go-on: おん (on)←をん (won, historical)
- Kan-on: えん (en)←ゑん (wen, historical)
- Kun: ここに (kokoni, 爰に)
Korean
Vietnamese
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