Wiktionary

彎

See also: 弯
彎 U+5F4E, 彎
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F4E
← 彍
[U+5F4D] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 彏 →
[U+5F4F]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

彎 (Kangxi radical 57, 弓+19, 22 strokes, cangjie input 女火弓 (VFN), four-corner 22207, composition ⿱龻弓)

Derived characters edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 361, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9904
  • Dae Jaweon: page 680, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1005, character 22
  • Unihan data for U+5F4E

Chinese edit

trad. 彎
simp. 弯

Glyph origin edit

Characters in the same phonetic series (䜌) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蠻 *mroːn
矕 *mroːnʔ
變 *prons
鸞 *b·roːn
巒 *b·roːn
灤 *b·roːn
欒 *b·roːn
鑾 *b·roːn
臠 *b·roːn, *b·ronʔ
羉 *b·roːn
䜌 *b·roːn, *b·ron, *b·rons
灓 *b·roːn, *b·roːns, *b·rons
圝 *b·roːn
曫 *b·roːn
孿 *smroːns, *smrons
彎 *qroːn
灣 *qroːn
攣 *b·ron
孌 *b·ronʔ, *b·rons
戀 *b·rons
㪻 *pʰlons, *klons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qroːn) : semantic 弓 (“bow”) + phonetic 䜌 (OC *b·roːn, *b·ron, *b·rons).

Etymology edit

May be cognate with 迂 (OC *qʷa, *qʷaʔ, *ɢʷa).

“homosexual”
Semantic loan from English bent.

Pronunciation edit

Note:
  • oaiⁿ - vernacular;
  • oan - literary.
Note:
  • uêng1 - Chaozhou;
  • uang1 - Shantou, Jieyang, Chenghai, Chaoyang.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 彎
Mandarin Beijing /uan⁵⁵/
Harbin /uan⁴⁴/
Tianjin /van²¹/
Jinan /vã²¹³/
Qingdao /vã²¹³/
Zhengzhou /uan²⁴/
Xi'an /uã²¹/
Xining /uã²¹³/
Yinchuan /van⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /vɛ̃n³¹/
Ürümqi /van⁴⁴/
Wuhan /uan⁵⁵/
Chengdu /uan⁵⁵/
Guiyang /uan⁵⁵/
Kunming /uã̠⁴⁴/
Nanjing /uaŋ³¹/
Hefei /uæ̃²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /væ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /uɑŋ¹³/
Hohhot /væ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ue⁵³/
Suzhou /ue̞⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ʔuõ³³/
Wenzhou /v̠a³³/
Hui Shexian /uɛ³¹/
Tunxi /uːə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /uan³³/
Xiangtan /uan³³/
Gan Nanchang /uan⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /van⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /vɑn²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /wan⁵³/
Nanning /wan⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /wan⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /uan⁵⁵/
/uãi⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /uaŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /yiŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /uaŋ³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /uaŋ²³/
Rime
Character 彎
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 刪 (70)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) II
Fanqie 烏關切
Baxter 'waen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʔˠuan/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʔʷᵚan/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʔuɐn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʔwaɨn/
Li
Rong 		/ʔuan/
Wang
Li 		/wan/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ʔwan/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		wān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		waan1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 彎
Reading # 1/1
No. 8626
Phonetic
component
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		彎
Old
Chinese 		/*qroːn/

Definitions edit

彎

  1. to bend; to make bent
    彎腰／弯腰  ―  wānyāo  ―  to bend over
  2. (Penang Hokkien) to turn; to make a turn; to change direction
  3. † to draw a bow
  4. bent; curved; crooked; arched
    Antonym: 直 (zhí)
    彎曲／弯曲  ―  wānqū  ―  bent
    彎路／弯路  ―  wānlù  ―  curved road
  5. (neologism, slang) gay; homosexual
    Antonym: 直 (zhí)
    彎男／弯男  ―  wānnán  ―  gay man
    變彎／变弯  ―  biàn wān  ―  to turn a straight person gay
  6. bend; turn; curve; crook
    彎子／弯子  ―  wānzi  ―  bend
    拐彎／拐弯  ―  guǎiwān  ―  to turn (at a corner)
  7. (Chinese calligraphy) a bend (such as in ㇉, ㇌, ㇟, or ㇠)
  8. (灣／湾 (wān))
    1. a bend in a river
    2. a bend in the coastline; bay, gulf
  9. Classifier for bent objects, such as a quarter moon.

Synonyms edit

Dialectal synonyms of 轉 (“to turn; to make a turn; to change direction”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 轉, 拐
Mandarin Beijing 拐
Taiwan 轉
Malaysia 轉
Singapore 轉
Cantonese Guangzhou 轉
Hong Kong 轉
Macau 轉
Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu) 轉
Penang (Guangfu) 轉
Singapore (Guangfu) 轉
Hakka Miaoli (N. Sixian) 斡
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 斡
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 斡
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 斡
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 斡
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 斡
Southern Min Xiamen 斡
Quanzhou 斡
Zhangzhou 斡
Tainan 斡
Penang (Hokkien) 彎
Singapore (Hokkien) 斡
Manila (Hokkien) 斡
Chaozhou 斡
Shantou 斡

Coordinate terms edit

Compounds edit

Descendants edit

Sino-Xenic (彎):
  • → Japanese: 彎(わん) (wan)
  • → Korean: 만(彎) (man)
  • → Vietnamese: loan (彎)

Japanese edit

Shinjitai
(extended)

弯

Kyūjitai

彎

Kanji edit

彎

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 弯)

  1. bend, curve
  2. stretching a bow

Readings edit

Etymology edit

Kanji in this term
彎
わん
Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 彎 (MC 'waen). Compare modern Mandarin 彎／弯 (wān).

Note that this character is replaced in modern Japanese by the simplified character 湾 (wan), rather than the simplified Chinese character 弯 (wān, “bend, curve”). The Japanese simplified version means bay or inlet when used on its own, but now also includes the bend, curve meanings when used in compounds.[1]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

彎(わん) • (wan) 

  1. a bend, a curve

Derived terms edit

Derived terms

References edit

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

Korean edit

Hanja edit

彎 (eum 만 (man))

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Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

彎: Hán Nôm readings: loan, thoăn

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