綸

See also: 纶

綸	U+7DB8, 綸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7DB8

← 綷
[U+7DB7]

CJK Unified Ideographs

綹 →
[U+7DB9]

Translingual

Han character

綸 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火人一月 (VFOMB), four-corner 2892₇, composition ⿰糹侖)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 928, character 7
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27583
Dae Jaweon: page 1365, character 7
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3416, character 10
Unihan data for U+7DB8

Chinese

trad.		綸
simp.		纶

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
蜦	ruːls, run
綸	kruːn, ɡ·run
論	ruːn, ruːns, *run
崘	*ruːn
掄	ruːn, run
菕	*ruːn
惀	ruːnʔ, run
睔	ɡ·ruːnʔ, kuːns, *ɡuːnʔ
碖	ruːnʔ, ruːns
溣	*ruːns
倫	*run
淪	*run
輪	*run
侖	*run
陯	*run
鯩	*run
棆	*run
踚	*run
耣	*runʔ
錀	*pqʰlun

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kruːn, *ɡ·run) : semantic 糸 (“silk”) + phonetic 侖 (OC *run).

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): lún (lun²)

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): leon⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lún
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄣˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lún
  - Wade–Giles: lun²
  - Yale: lwún
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luen
  - Palladius: лунь (lunʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lu̯ən³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: leon⁴
  - Yale: lèuhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: loen⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: lên⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɵn²¹/

Middle Chinese: lwin

Rime
Character	綸
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	力迍切
Baxter	lwin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/liuɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/lʷin/
Shao Rongfen	/ljuen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lwin/
Li Rong	/liuĕn/
Wang Li	/lĭuĕn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/li̯uĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lún
Expected Cantonese Reflex	leon⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*k.ru[n]/

(Zhengzhang): /*ɡ·run/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	綸
Reading #	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lún
Middle Chinese	‹ lwin ›
Old Chinese	/*k.ru[n]/
English	woof; twist a cord
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	綸
Reading #	2/2
No.	8664
Phonetic component	侖
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	淪
Old Chinese	/*ɡ·run/

Definitions

綸

cyan ribbon
fishing line
thick rope
emperor's order
silk thread
to govern
wide
a place in Henan
Alternative term for 倫／伦 (lún).
a surname

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
(Pinyin): guān (guan¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gwaan¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: guān
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: guan
  - Wade–Giles: kuan¹
  - Yale: gwān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guan
  - Palladius: гуань (guanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯än⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: gwaan¹
  - Yale: gwāan
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gwaan¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: guan¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷaːn⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: kwean

Rime
Character	綸
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	山 (74)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	古頑切
Baxter	kwean
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠuɛn/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷᵚæn/
Shao Rongfen	/kuæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwəɨn/
Li Rong	/kuɛn/
Wang Li	/kwæn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kwăn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gwaan¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*k.rˤu[n]/

(Zhengzhang): /*kruːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	綸
Reading #	1/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	guān
Middle Chinese	‹ kwɛn ›
Old Chinese	/k.rˁu[n]/ (dialect: k.rˁ- > *kˁr-)
English	ribbon; kelp
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	綸
Reading #	1/2
No.	8648
Phonetic component	侖
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	鰥
Old Chinese	/*kruːn/

Definitions

綸

a kind of marine plant
see 綸巾／纶巾 (guānjīn)

Compounds

綸巾／纶巾 (guānjīn)
羽扇綸巾／羽扇纶巾

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03143
“綸”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

綸

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

Readings

From Middle Chinese 綸 (MC lwin); compare Mandarin 綸／纶 (lún):

Go-on: りん (rin)^{←りん (rin, historical)}
Kan-on: りん (rin)^{←りん (rin, historical)}

From Middle Chinese 綸 (MC kwean); compare Mandarin 綸／纶 (guān):

Go-on: けん (ken)^{←けん (ken, historical)}^{←くゑん (kwen, ancient)}
Kan-on: かん (kan)^{←くわん (kwan, historical)}

From native Japanese roots:

Kun: いと (ito, 綸)
Nanori: お (o)、くみ (kumi)

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

綸 • (ryun>yun, gwan) (hangeul 륜>윤, 관, revised ryun>yun, gwan, McCune–Reischauer ryun>yun, kwan, Yale lyun>yun, kwan)

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Tày

Han character

綸 (transliteration needed)

Nôm form of lền.

References

Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[2] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội