壪

See also: 塆

壪 U+58EA, 壪 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-58EA ← 壩 [U+58E9] CJK Unified Ideographs 士 → [U+58EB]

Translingual

Han character

壪 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+22, 25 strokes, cangjie input 土女火弓 (GVFN), composition ⿰土彎)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 242, character 36
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 8 (in addendum), page 12, character 5
• Unihan data for U+58EA

Chinese

trad.		壪
simp.		塆

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声) : semantic 土 (“dirt”) + phonetic 彎 (wān).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wān (wan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wān
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wan
    • Wade–Giles: wan¹
    • Yale: wān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uan
    • Palladius: вань (vanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: waan¹
    • Yale: wāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wan¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waːn⁵⁵/

Definitions

壪

1. level ground in a mountain valley (often used in place names)

   Synonym: 山坳 (shān'ào)

Compounds

• 沙壪河 / 沙塆河 (Shāwānhé)
• 羌家壪 / 羌家塆 (Qiāngjiāwān)