雍

雍 U+96CD, 雍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96CD ← 雌 [U+96CC] CJK Unified Ideographs 雎 → [U+96CE]

Translingual

Han character

雍 (Kangxi radical 172, 隹+5, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜女竹土 (YVHG), four-corner 0071₀, composition ⿱亠𱁈)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1366, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42000
• Dae Jaweon: page 1871, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 291, character 9
• Unihan data for U+96CD

Chinese

trad.		雍/雝
simp.		雍
alternative forms		邕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 雍
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (邕) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
郺	*qoːŋʔ, *qoŋ
齆	*qoːŋs
甕	*qoːŋs
罋	*qoːŋs, *qoŋ
雍	*qoŋ, *qoŋs
邕	*qoŋ
嗈	*qoŋ
灉	*qoŋ, *qoŋs
癰	*qoŋ
廱	*qoŋ
雝	*qoŋ
壅	*qoŋ, *qoŋʔ, *qoŋs
饔	*qoŋ
噰	*qoŋ
澭	*qoŋ
擁	*qoŋ, *qoŋʔ
臃	*qoŋ

Variant form of 雝. It's likely that the phonetic component 邕 (OC *qoŋ) corrupted into 玄 at some point since their shapes looked similar in pre-Qin scripts.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yōng (yong¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jung¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yûng
• Northern Min (KCR): é̤ng
• Eastern Min (BUC): ṳ̆ng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): iong

  (Teochew, Peng'im): iong¹

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹ion; ⁵ion

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yong
    • Wade–Giles: yung¹
    • Yale: yūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iong
    • Palladius: юн (jun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jung¹
    • Yale: yūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yûng
    • Hakka Romanization System: iung^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yung¹
    • Sinological IPA: /i̯uŋ²⁴/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yûng
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)iung^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yung¹
    • Sinological IPA: /(j)i̯uŋ²⁴/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: é̤ng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /œyŋ⁵⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ṳ̆ng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /yŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iong
    • Tâi-lô: iong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iofng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /iɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /iɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɔŋ⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: iong¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: iong
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ioŋ³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹ion; ⁵ion
    • MiniDict: ion^平; ion^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹ion; ²ion
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ioŋ⁵³/, /ioŋ³⁴/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 雍
Mandarin	Beijing	/iuŋ⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/yŋ⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/ʐuŋ²¹/ /yŋ²¹/
	Jinan	/yŋ²¹³/
	Qingdao	/iŋ²¹³/
	Zhengzhou	/yuŋ⁵³/
	Xi'an	/yŋ²¹/
	Xining	/yə̃⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/yŋ⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/ỹn³¹/
	Ürümqi	/yŋ⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/ioŋ⁵⁵/
	Chengdu	/yoŋ⁵⁵/
	Guiyang	/ioŋ⁵⁵/
	Kunming	/ioŋ⁴⁴/
	Nanjing	/ioŋ³¹/
	Hefei	/iŋ²¹/
Jin	Taiyuan	/yəŋ¹¹/
	Pingyao	/yŋ⁵³/
	Hohhot	/ỹŋ³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/ioŋ⁵³/
	Suzhou	/ioŋ⁵⁵/
	Hangzhou	/ʔioŋ³³/
	Wenzhou	/j̠oŋ³³/
Hui	Shexian	/yʌ̃³⁵/
	Tunxi
Xiang	Changsha	/ioŋ³³/
	Xiangtan	/in³³/
Gan	Nanchang	/iuŋ⁴²/
Hakka	Meixian	/iuŋ⁴⁴/
	Taoyuan	/ʒuŋ²⁴/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/joŋ⁵³/
	Nanning	/juŋ⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/juŋ⁵⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/iɔŋ⁵⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/yŋ⁴⁴/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/œyŋ⁵⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/ioŋ³³/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/oŋ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: 'jowng, 'jowngH

Rime
Character	雍	雍
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	鍾 (7)	鍾 (7)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	於容切	於用切
Baxter	'jowng	'jowngH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɨoŋ/	/ʔɨoŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔioŋ/	/ʔioŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔioŋ/	/ʔioŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔuawŋ/	/ʔuawŋH/
Li Rong	/ʔioŋ/	/ʔioŋH/
Wang Li	/ĭwoŋ/	/ĭwoŋH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔi̯woŋ/	/ʔi̯woŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yōng	yòng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jung1	jung3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qoŋ/, /*qoŋs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	雍	雍
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	15403	15420
Phonetic component	邕	邕
Rime group	東	東
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	邕	雍
Old Chinese	/*qoŋ/	/*qoŋs/
Notes	說文廱字隸變， 原本玉篇作廣下維	廱隸變

Definitions

雍

1. (literary) harmony; peace
2. (literary) harmonious
3. Alternative form of 壅 (“to obstruct”)
4. Alternative form of 擁／拥 (yōng, “to hold”)
5. Alternative form of 饔 (yōng, “cooked food”)
6. a surname

Compounds

• 伯雍種玉
• 時雍
• 羊卓雍湖
• 臨雍
• 辟雍 (bìyōng)
• 雍和
• 雍和宮 (Yōnghé Gōng)
• 雍容 (yōngróng)
• 雍容文雅
• 雍容爾雅
• 雍容華貴／雍容华贵
• 雍容閒雅
• 雍容雅步
• 雍州 (Yōngzhōu)
• 雍正 (Yōngzhèng)
• 雍熙
• 雍睦
• 雍穆
• 雍門
• 雍閼
• 雍雍 (yōngyōng)
• 雍齒封侯

 

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 雍 – see 廱 (“harmonious; pool; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 廱).

Japanese

Kanji

雍

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. softening
2. mitigation

Readings

• On (unclassified): よう (yō)、ゆ (yu)
• Kun: やわらぐ (yawaragu)、ふさぐ (fusagu)
• Nanori: たすく (tasuku)、やす (yasu)、やすし (yasushi)

Korean

Hanja

雍 • (ong) (hangeul 옹, revised ong, McCune–Reischauer ong, Yale ong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

雍: Hán Nôm readings: ủng, úng, ung

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