融
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Translingual
Han character
融 (radical 142, 虫+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 一月中一戈 (MBLMI), four-corner 15236, composition ⿰鬲虫)
References
- KangXi: page 1092, character 42
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33384
- Dae Jaweon: page 1557, character 28
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2877, character 8
- Unihan data for U+878D
Chinese
simp. and trad. |
融 | |
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variant forms | 𧖓 |
Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (蟲) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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Old Chinese | |
痋 | *l'uːŋ |
鉵 | *l'uːŋ |
赨 | *l'uːŋ |
爞 | *l'uːŋ, *l'uŋ |
蟲 | *l'uŋ, *l'uŋs |
融 | *luŋ |
瀜 | *luŋ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *luŋ) : semantic 鬲 (“cauldron”) + phonetic 蟲 (OC *l'uŋ, *l'uŋs).
Etymology
“Hot air; steam; heat” > “to melt” > “to blend”.
Sino-Tibetan; compare Burmese လောင် (laung, “to burn; to be burnt; to scorch”). Related to 蟲 (OC *l'uŋ, *l'uŋs, “hot; hot air; hot weather”) (as in 蟲蟲 (OC *l'uŋ/l'uŋs l'uŋ/l'uŋs)), 爞 (OC *l'uːŋ, *l'uŋ, “hot weather”) and possibly the word family of *lVm: 焰 (OC *loms, “fire”).
It belongs to a word family comprising characters meaning “to melt, to smelt, to fuse, to dissolve”. In modern times the various characters have taken on their specialised meanings:
Pronunciation
Definitions
融
Compounds
Japanese
Korean
Hanja
融 • (yung) (hangeul 융, revised yung, McCune–Reischauer yung, Yale yung)
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Vietnamese
Han character
融 (dung)
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