焉

Translingual

Etymology

Pictogram (象形): a kind of bird (鳥).

Han character

焉 (radical 86 火+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 一卜中火 (MYLF), four-corner 1032₇)

1. thereupon, then
2. how? why? where?

Derived terms

• 蔫, 嫣, 鄢, 傿, 漹

References

• KangXi: page 672, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19076
• Dae Jaweon: page 1081, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2206, character 14
• Unihan data for U+7109

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Cantonese

Hanzi

焉 (Yale yin1, yin4)

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Japanese

Kanji

焉 (uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• On: えん (en), い (i)
• Kun: いずくんそ (izukunso), すなわち (sunawachi), これ (kore)

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Korean

Hanja

焉
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 언 (revised: eon, McCune-Reischauer: ŏn, Yale: en)

• Name (hangeul): 어찌()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

焉 (pinyin yān (yan1), yí (yi2), Wade-Giles yen¹, i²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

焉 (yên, vờn)