呟

Translingual

Han character

呟 (radical 30 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口卜女戈 (RYVI))

References

• KangXi: page 181, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3427
• Dae Jaweon: page 399, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 608, character 8
• Unihan data for U+545F

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Japanese

Kanji

呟 (uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• On: げん (gen)
• Kun: つぶやく (tsubuyaku)

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Korean

Hanja

呟 (hangeul 현, revised hyeon, McCune-Reischauer hyŏn)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

呟 (pinyin juǎn (juan3), Wade-Giles chüan³)

Adjective

呟 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin juǎn)

1. (archaic) loud

Adverb

呟 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin juǎn)

1. (archaic) loudly

• Han Dynasty: Wang Bao (王褒), Rhapsody for the Flute, Wen Xuan (文選/洞簫賦)

  哮呷呟喚，躋躓連絕，淈殄沌兮

  Loudly and boldly, a continuous stream of high and low notes become jumbled together.

Derived terms

• trad. 呟喚, simpl. 呟唤

References

• 1998, Hanyu Da Zidian (漢語大字典), Taipei: Jianhong Publishers (建宏出版社), ISBN 9578134789: