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Property Value
English definition hem, margin; reason, cause; karma, fate
Mandarin pronunciation(s), using the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system yuan2 yuan4
Pronunciation(s) and frequencies according to 現代漢語頻率詞典 <Xiandai Hanyu Pinlu Cidian> (XDHYPLCD) yuán(77)
Tang dynasty pronunciation(s), derived from or consistent with T'ang Poetic Vocabulary by Hugh M. Stimson, Far Eastern Publications, Yale Univ. 1976 *iuɛn
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Jyutping romanization system jyun4
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system yun4
Japanese (Hepburn) fuchi heri yoru
Sino-Japanese en
Korean pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system yen tan
Hangul 연:0E
Vietnamese pronunciation(s) in Quốc ngữ duyên
Simplified variants
Semantic variants (x- or y-variants with similar or identical meaning)
Unicode radical / stroke count 糸糹 + 9
Unicode total stroke count 15
Cangjie VFVNO
Four corner code 2793.2
Frequency based in traditional Chinese USENET postings (1 is most common, 5 is least common) 3
Expected to be known in Hong Kong school system primary grade 4
漢語大字典 <Hanyu Da Zidian> 'Great Chinese Character Dictionary' (in 8 Volumes). Hubei and Sichuan Dictionary Publishing Collectives, 1986-1990. ISBN: 7-5403-0030 2/H.16 volume 5, page 3433, character 7
KangXi dictionary, 7th edition published by Zhonghua Bookstore in Beijing, 1989 page 930, position 19
Dae Jaweon (Korean) dictionary, first edition, published in Seoul by Samseong Publishing Co., Ltd., 1988 page 1368, position 18
Grammata Serica Recensa, Bernhard Karlgren, 1957 0171d
Cihai (辭海) dictionary, single volume edition, published in Hong Kong by the Zhonghua Bookstore, 1983 (reprint of the 1947 edition), ISBN 962-231-005-2 page 1053, row 2, position 3
宋本廣韻 <Song Ben Guang Yun> Song Dynasty edition of the Guang Yun Rhyming Dictionary page 140, character 58 page 410, character 5
The Five Thousand Dictionary (Fenn's Chinese-English Pocket Dictionary) by Courtenay H. Fenn, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979 287C
page 651, position 4
Ten Thousand Characters: An Analytic Dictionary by G. Hugh Casey, S.J. Hong Kong: Kelley and Walsh, 1980 1400 1625
Chinese-English Dictionary by Robert H. Mathews, Cambrige: Harvard University Press, 1975 7741
A Practical Cantonese-English Dictionary by Sidney Lau, Hong Kong: The Government Printer, 1977 3557
Roy T. Cowles, A Pocket Dictionary of Cantonese, Hong Kong: University Press, 1999 4914
Student's Cantonese-English Dictionary by Bernard F. Meyer and Theodore F. Wempe (3rd edition, 1947) 3657
常用字字形表 (二零零零年修訂本),香港: 香港教育學院, 2000, ISBN 962-949-040-4 3132
Taiwan telegraph code 4878
Unicode code point (dec / hex): 32227 / 7DE3