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倦

倦 U+5026, 倦
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5026
← 倥
[U+5025] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 倧 →
[U+5027]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

倦 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人火手山 (OFQU), four-corner 29212, composition ⿰亻卷 (GTKV) or ⿰亻巻 (J))

  1. be tired of, weary

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 108, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 788
  • Dae Jaweon: page 231, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 183, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+5026

Chinese edit

simp. and trad.
 倦
alternative forms 勌／倦

Glyph origin edit

Historical forms of the character 倦
Small seal script
 

s05897

Transcribed ancient scripts
 

L36738

 

L23040

 

L23041

 

L23042

 

L23043

 

L23044

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (卷) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
腃 *kʰruls, *ɡron
卷 *ɡron, *kronʔ, *krons, *ɡonʔ
菤 *kronʔ
捲 *kronʔ, *krons, *ɡron
埢 *kronʔ
睠 *krons
弮 *kʰron, *krons
犈 *krons, *ɡron
棬 *kʰron
鬈 *kʰron, *ɡron
圈 *kʰron, *ɡronʔ, *kʰon, *ɡlonʔ, *ɡlons
蜷 *ɡron
踡 *ɡron
婘 *ɡron
蔨 *ɡronʔ, *ɡrunʔ
倦 *ɡrons
淃 *ɡrons
綣 *kʰonʔ, *kʰons
裷 *kʰonʔ, *qon

In the Chu form, a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡrons) : semantic 人 (“person”) + phonetic 龹 (). In the Small Seal Script form, a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡrons) : semantic 人 (“person”) + phonetic 卷 (OC *ɡron, *kronʔ, *krons, *ɡonʔ).

Etymology edit

Compare Tibetan ཀྱོར་ཀྱོར (kyor kyor, “weak; feeble”), Tibetan ཁྱོར་བ (khyor ba, “to stumble; to move totteringly”), Tibetan འཁྱོར་བ ('khyor ba, “to stagger, to reel”) (Bodman, 1980). Cognate with 痯 (OC *koːnʔ, *koːns, “exhausted”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation edit

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 倦
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕyan⁵¹/
Harbin /t͡ɕyan⁵³/
Tianjin /t͡ɕyan⁵³/
Jinan /t͡ɕyã²¹/
Qingdao /t͡ɕyã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕyan³¹²/
Xi'an /t͡ɕyã⁴⁴/
Xining /t͡ɕyã²¹³/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕyan¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕyɛ̃n¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕyan²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡ɕyɛn³⁵/
Chengdu /t͡ɕyan¹³/
Guiyang /t͡ɕian²¹³/
Kunming /t͡ɕiɛ̃²¹²/
Nanjing /t͡ɕyen⁴⁴/
Hefei /t͡ɕyĩ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕye⁴⁵/
Pingyao /t͡ɕye̞³⁵/
Hohhot /t͡ɕye⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /d͡ʑyø²³/
Suzhou /d͡ʑiø³¹/
Hangzhou /d͡zz̩ʷõ¹³/
Wenzhou /d͡ʑy²²/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰye²²/
Tunxi /t͡ɕyɛ⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕyẽ⁵⁵/
/t͡ɕyẽ¹¹/
Xiangtan /t͡ɕyẽ⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /kʰian³¹/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /kyn²²/
Nanning /kyn²²/
Hong Kong /kyn²²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /kuan²²/
/uã²¹/ 俗
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /kuɔŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /kyiŋ³³/
Shantou (Teochew) /kuaŋ³⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /kin³¹/
Rime
Character 倦
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 仙 (80)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 渠卷切
Baxter gjwenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɡˠiuᴇnH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɡʷᵚiɛnH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɡiuænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/gwianH/
Li
Rong 		/ɡjuɛnH/
Wang
Li 		/ɡĭwɛnH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/gi̯wɛnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		juàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gyun6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 倦
Reading # 1/1
No. 7199
Phonetic
component 		卷
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		倦
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡrons/

Definitions edit

倦

  1. tired; weary
    疲倦  ―  píjuàn  ―  exhausted; fatigued
    厭倦／厌倦  ―  yànjuàn  ―  fed up; bored

Compounds edit

Japanese edit

Shinjitai
(extended) 		Shinjitai
(extended)
倦󠄀
倦+󠄀?
(Adobe-Japan1) 		   
倦󠄂
倦+󠄂?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
Kyūjitai 倦  
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Kanji edit

倦

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. in fatigue
  2. languor
  3. grow weary of, lose interest in

Readings edit

Compounds edit

Related terms edit

Korean edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Chinese 倦 (MC gjwenH).

Historical readings

Pronunciation edit

  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [kwɘ(ː)n]
  • Phonetic hangul: [권(ː)]
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Hanja edit

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

倦 (eumhun 게으를 권 (geeureul gwon))

  1. Hanja form? of 권 (“languor”).

Compounds edit

Compounds

References edit

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

倦: Hán Nôm readings: quyện, cuộn

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