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U+5BB9, 容
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5BB9

[U+5BB8]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5BBA]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
10 strokes

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 40, +7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十金人口 (JCOR), four-corner 30608, composition )

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 287, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7172
  • Dae Jaweon: page 567, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 933, character 17
  • Unihan data for U+5BB9

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
alternative forms ancient
“looks”
𠕺

Glyph origin[edit]

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *loŋ): semantic + phonetic (OC *kloːŋ) – to hold; to contain.

容 has also largely supplanted (OC *sɢloŋs, *loŋ) for the sense of “appearance”.

Etymology[edit]

“ronna-”
Phono-semantic matching of English ronna-. Coined by the China National Committee for Terminology in Science and Technology and the State Administration for Market Regulation on World Metrology Day in 2023 (20 May 2023).

Pronunciation[edit]



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (36)
Final () (7)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter yowng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/jɨoŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/jioŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ioŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/juawŋ/
Li
Rong
/ioŋ/
Wang
Li
/jĭwoŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i̯woŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yóng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jung4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
róng róng
Middle
Chinese
‹ yowng › ‹ yowng ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɢ](r)oŋ/ /*[ɢ](r)oŋ/
English contain appearance

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 # 1/1
No. 4284
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*loŋ/
Notes

Definitions[edit]

  1. to hold; to contain
    教室20學生 [MSC, trad.]
    教室20学生 [MSC, simp.]
    Měi jiān jiàoshì néng róng 20 duō ge xuéshēng. [Pinyin]
    Each classroom can hold 20-odd students.
  2. to tolerate; to stand
      ―  kuānróng  ―  to be lenient
    不得別人批評不得别人批评  ―  róng bude biérén pīpíng  ―  cannot stand others' criticism
  3. to allow; to permit
      ―  qǐng róng wǒ shuō liǎng jù  ―  Please allow me to say something
  4. (literary) perhaps; maybe
  5. facial appearance; looks
      ―  xiàoróng  ―  smile
    光煥發光焕发  ―  róngguānghuànfā  ―  (of one's face) to glow with vigour and joy
  6. bearing; posture
      ―  shìróng  ―  appearance of a city
  7. Used in 容易 (róngyì) and 容與容与.
  8. Used in 容容.
  9. a surname
      ―  Róng Guótuán  ―  Rong Guotuan (Chinese table tennis player)
  10. (~縣) Rong County, Yulin, Guangxi
  11. (Mainland China) ronna- (SI unit prefix)
    Synonym: (luó) (Taiwan)

Compounds[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. contain
  2. forgive, allow, permit
  3. shape, appearance

Readings[edit]

Usage notes[edit]

Formerly used as man'yōgana for the back-vowel variant 甲類 (kōrui) of (yo).

Compounds[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Noun[edit]

(かたち) (katachi

  1. Alternative form of

Etymology 2[edit]

Kanji in this term
よう
Grade: 5
kan’on

Pronunciation[edit]

Affix[edit]

(よう) (

  1. to hold; to contain
  2. to tolerate; to stand
  3. content; substance
  4. look; appearance

References[edit]

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006) 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Chinese (MC yowng). Recorded as Middle Korean 요ᇰ (yong) (Yale: yong) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja[edit]

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 얼굴 (eolgul yong))

  1. Hanja form? of (face; contain).

Compounds[edit]

References[edit]

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

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

: Hán Nôm readings: dung, dong, dông, gióng, giông, ròng, rông, rung

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