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U+8F49, 轉
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8F49

[U+8F48]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8F4A]

Translingual

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Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Han character

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(Kangxi radical 159, +11, 18 strokes, cangjie input 十十十戈戈 (JJJII), four-corner 55043, composition )

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1248, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38507
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1726, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3552, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+8F49

Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Qin slip script Small seal script
   

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *tonʔ, *tons) : semantic (carriage) + phonetic (OC *tjon).

Etymology

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Possibly related to:

An allofam is perhaps *don (“round”). Compare Vietnamese tròn (round; circle; entire; whole), trọn (fully; completely; all), as well as the following Chinese words:

  • (OC *doːn, “ball; circle; lump”),
  • (OC *doːn, *doːn, *donʔ, “to roll up into a ball”).

Derivative: (OC *tons, *don, *dons, “to relay; to pass on; to transfer; relay station; biography; record”).

Pronunciation 1

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alternative forms (tńg/túiⁿ) Hokkien

Note:
  • zyun2 - literary;
  • zyun3 - vernacular.
Note:
  • tńg, túiⁿ - vernacular (“to revolve; to change; to change position; to return; to mediate; to transfer the ownership (Mainland China); to circulate capital”);
  • choán - literary.
Note:
  • deng2 - vernacular (“to return”);
  • zuêng2/zuang2 - literary (zuêng2 - Chaozhou).

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2
Initial () (9)
Final () (80)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter trjwenX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʈˠiuᴇnX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈʷᵚiɛnX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȶiuænX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈwianX/
Li
Rong
/ȶjuɛnX/
Wang
Li
/ȶĭwɛnX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ȶi̯wɛnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhuǎn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zyun2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhuǎn zhuǎn
Middle
Chinese
‹ trjwenX › ‹ trjwenX ›
Old
Chinese
/*mə-tronʔ/ /*tronʔ/
English turn around, transfer 輾轉 toss and turn ((Ode 1.2, 145.3)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2
No. 17674
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tonʔ/

Definitions

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  1. (transitive) to turn; to revolve
  2. to wind; to entwine
  3. winding; circuitous
  4. (transitive) to change; to shift; to alter
      ―  zhuǎnhuàn  ―  to change
    大人大人 [Hokkien]  ―  tńg tāi-jîn [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to become an adult
      ―  zhuǎn bài wèi shèng  ―  to turn defeat into victory
  5. to change direction; to turn
  6. (Southwestern Mandarin, dialectal Cantonese, Hakka, Min, Wu) to return; to come or go back
    [Shanghainese]  ―  5tsoe-le [Wugniu]  ―  to come back; to return
    [Shanghainese]  ―  5tsoe-chi [Wugniu]  ―  to go back; to return
  7. (Wu) to think; to contemplate; to turn over in one's mind
  8. (Xiamen Hokkien) to mediate; to reconcile
  9. (dialectal Mandarin, Cantonese) Classifier for times or round trips.
  10. to change position; to move
  11. to wave; to flutter
  12. to divert; to transfer
  13. to evade; to avoid
  14. to be transferred to another post
  15. to sell; to transfer the ownership
  16. to transport; to relay; to carry in a cart
  17. to discard; to abandon
  18. to leave; to depart
  19. to chant; to utter (spell); to recite
  20. (Mainland China Hokkien) to circulate capital to meet financial need for turnover
  21. a surname

Usage notes

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The Cantonese reading 'zyun2' bears the meaning "to turn, transfer" whereas the reading 'zyun3' means "to revolve".

Synonyms

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  • (to change direction):
  • (to return):

Compounds

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Pronunciation 2

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Note:
  • zyun6 - hair whorl;
  • zyun2 - literary.
Note:
  • choàn - literary;
  • tńg/túiⁿ - vernacular.
Note:
  • zuêng2 - Chaozhou;
  • zuang2 - Shantou.

Rime
Character
Reading # 2/2
Initial () (9)
Final () (80)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter trjwenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʈˠiuᴇnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈʷᵚiɛnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȶiuænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈwianH/
Li
Rong
/ȶjuɛnH/
Wang
Li
/ȶĭwɛnH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ȶi̯wɛnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhuàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zyun3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 2/2
No. 17675
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tons/

Definitions

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  1. (intransitive) to revolve; to rotate; to turn
  2. revolution; rotation; turn
  3. (Cantonese, dialectal Hakka, dialectal Min, dialectal Wu) hair whorl
  4. number of times; time
  5. to wind around; to go around; bypass
  6. to lose (way); to get lost
  7. (colloquial) to stroll; to saunter; to amble; to wander
  8. Alternative form of (zhuàn, to chirp; to warble; to chirrup)
  9. (music) RPM
    78黑膠78黑胶  ―  78 zhuàn hēijiāo  ―  78 RPM record
Synonyms
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Compounds

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Pronunciation 3

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Definitions

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  1. (Mandarin, colloquial) Alternative form of (to act pretentiously; to show off)

Compounds

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Pronunciation 4

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alternative forms Eastern Min
Hokkien

Note: ruêng2 - Chaozhou.

Definitions

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  1. (Min) to twist with force or with a tool

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Shinjitai

Kyūjitai

Kanji

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(Jinmeiyō kanjikyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

  1. (to) shift
  2. (to) move
  3. (to) turn

Readings

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Korean

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Etymology

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From Middle Chinese (MC trjwenX|trjwenH). Recorded as Middle Korean 뎐〯 (tyěn) (Yale: tyen) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 구를 (gureul jeon))

  1. hanja form? of ((to) turn; (to) move)

Compounds

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References

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

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: chuyển, chuyên, chuyền, chuyến

  1. (to) shift
  2. (to) move
  3. (to) turn

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