"淵" meaning in Chinese

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Character

IPA: /ɥɛn⁵⁵/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /jyːn⁵⁵/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /i̯en²⁴/ [Hakka, Miaoli, Northern, Sinological-IPA, Sixian], /(j)i̯an²⁴/ [Hakka, Meinong, Sinological-IPA, Sixian, Southern], /yoŋ⁵⁵/ [Fuzhou, Sinological-IPA], /iɛn⁴⁴/ [Hokkien, Xiamen], /iɛn³³/ [Hokkien, Quanzhou], /iɛn⁴⁴/ [Hokkien, Zhangzhou], /iɛn⁴⁴/ [Hokkien, Taipei], /iɛn⁴⁴/ [Hokkien, Kaohsiung], /ɥɛn⁵⁵/, /jyːn⁵⁵/, /i̯en²⁴/, /(j)i̯an²⁴/, /yoŋ⁵⁵/, /iɛn⁴⁴/, /iɛn³³/, /iɛn⁴⁴/, /iɛn⁴⁴/, /iɛn⁴⁴/ Chinese transliterations: yuān [Mandarin, Pinyin], yuan¹ [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄩㄢ [Mandarin, bopomofo], jyun¹ [Cantonese, Jyutping], yên [Hakka, Phak-fa-su, Sixian], yân [Hakka, Phak-fa-su, Sixian], iŏng, ian, yuān [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], yuan [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], yüan¹ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], ywān [Mandarin, Yale], iuan [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], юань [Mandarin, Palladius], juanʹ [Mandarin, Palladius], yūn [Cantonese, Yale], jyn¹ [Cantonese, Pinyin], yun¹ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization], yên [Hakka, Miaoli, Northern, Phak-fa-su, Sixian], ien´ [Hakka, Hakka-Romanization-System, Miaoli, Northern, Sixian], yan¹ [Hagfa-Pinyim, Hakka, Miaoli, Northern, Sixian], yân [Hakka, Meinong, Phak-fa-su, Sixian, Southern], r [Hakka, Hakka-Romanization-System, Meinong, Sixian, Southern], ian´ [Hakka, Hakka-Romanization-System, Meinong, Sixian, Southern], yan¹ [Hagfa-Pinyim, Hakka, Meinong, Sixian, Southern], iŏng [Foochow-Romanized, Fuzhou], ian [Hokkien, POJ], ian [Hokkien, Tai-lo], iefn [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun], 'wen [Middle-Chinese], /*[ʔ]ʷˤi[ŋ]/ [Baxter-Sagart, Old-Chinese], /*qʷiːn/ [Old-Chinese, Zhengzhang]
Head templates: {{head|zh|hanzi}} 淵
  1. abyss; deep water
    Sense id: en-淵-zh-character-6LyxmmmG Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 23 42 35
  2. deep; profound
    Sense id: en-淵-zh-character-j-WmO4e7 Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 23 42 35
  3. a surname
    Sense id: en-淵-zh-character-v2O7m9sM Categories (other): Chinese surnames, Chinese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 23 42 35
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: 不測之淵, 不测之渊, 九淵, 九渊, 冰淵, 冰渊, 判若天淵, 判若天渊, 加膝墜淵, 加膝坠渊, 塞淵, 塞渊, 天淵 (tiānyuān), 天渊 (tiānyuān), 天淵之別 (tiānyuānzhībié), 天渊之别 (tiānyuānzhībié), 如臨深淵 (rúlínshēnyuān), 如临深渊 (rúlínshēnyuān), 如臨淵谷, 如临渊谷, 學問淵博, 学问渊博, 家學淵源, 家学渊源, 察見淵魚, 察见渊鱼, 寸指測淵, 寸指测渊, 山峙淵渟, 山峙渊渟, 嶽峙淵渟, 岳峙渊渟, 挑戰者深淵 (Tiǎozhànzhě Shēnyuān), 挑战者深渊 (Tiǎozhànzhě Shēnyuān), 探淵索珠, 探渊索珠, 文淵閣, 文渊阁, 洪淵, 洪渊, 淵博 (yuānbó), 渊博 (yuānbó), 淵塞, 渊塞, 淵思寂慮, 渊思寂虑, 淵泉, 渊泉, 淵海, 渊海, 淵淵, 渊渊, 深淵 (shēnyuān), 深渊 (shēnyuān), 淵深 (yuānshēn), 渊深 (yuānshēn), 深淵薄冰, 深渊薄冰, 淵渟岳峙, 渊渟岳峙, 淵渟嶽立, 渊渟岳立, 淵源 (yuānyuán), 渊源 (yuānyuán), 淵源錄, 渊源录, 淵藪, 渊薮, 淵識, 渊识, 淵遠流長, 渊远流长, 淵鑑類函, 渊鉴类函, 淵魚叢爵, 渊鱼丛爵, 淵默, 渊默, 澶淵 (Chányuān), 澶渊 (Chányuān), 澶淵之盟, 澶渊之盟, 為淵敺魚 (wèiyuānqūyú), 为渊驱鱼 (wèiyuānqūyú), 盜跖顏淵, 盗跖颜渊, 相去天淵, 相去天渊, 福如海淵, 福如海渊, 萬丈深淵, 万丈深渊, 積水成淵, 积水成渊, 脫網就淵, 脱网就渊, 臨淵履薄, 临渊履薄, 臨淵結網, 临渊结网, 臨淵羨魚 (línyuānxiànyú), 临渊羡鱼 (línyuānxiànyú), 虞淵, 虞渊, 重淵, 重渊, 靜淵, 静渊, 龍淵, 龙渊

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      "word": "不測之淵"
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      "word": "冰淵"
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      "word": "加膝墜淵"
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      "word": "加膝坠渊"
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      "word": "塞淵"
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      "word": "塞渊"
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      "roman": "tiānyuān",
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      "roman": "tiānyuānzhībié",
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      "roman": "tiānyuānzhībié",
      "word": "天渊之别"
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      "roman": "rúlínshēnyuān",
      "word": "如臨深淵"
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      "roman": "rúlínshēnyuān",
      "word": "如临深渊"
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      "word": "如臨淵谷"
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      "word": "如临渊谷"
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      "word": "學問淵博"
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      "word": "学问渊博"
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      "word": "家學淵源"
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      "word": "家学渊源"
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      "word": "察見淵魚"
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    {
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      "word": "察见渊鱼"
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      "word": "寸指測淵"
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      "word": "寸指测渊"
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    {
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      "word": "山峙淵渟"
    },
    {
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      "word": "山峙渊渟"
    },
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      "word": "嶽峙淵渟"
    },
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      "word": "岳峙渊渟"
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      "roman": "Tiǎozhànzhě Shēnyuān",
      "word": "挑戰者深淵"
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      "roman": "Tiǎozhànzhě Shēnyuān",
      "word": "挑战者深渊"
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      "word": "探淵索珠"
    },
    {
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      "word": "探渊索珠"
    },
    {
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      "word": "文淵閣"
    },
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      "word": "文渊阁"
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    {
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      "word": "洪淵"
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    {
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      "word": "洪渊"
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      "roman": "yuānbó",
      "word": "淵博"
    },
    {
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      "roman": "yuānbó",
      "word": "渊博"
    },
    {
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      "word": "淵塞"
    },
    {
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      "word": "渊塞"
    },
    {
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      "word": "淵思寂慮"
    },
    {
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      "word": "渊思寂虑"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "淵泉"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "渊泉"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "淵海"
    },
    {
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      "word": "渊海"
    },
    {
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      "word": "淵淵"
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    {
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      "word": "渊渊"
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    {
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      "roman": "shēnyuān",
      "word": "深淵"
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    {
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      "roman": "shēnyuān",
      "word": "深渊"
    },
    {
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      "roman": "yuānshēn",
      "word": "淵深"
    },
    {
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      "roman": "yuānshēn",
      "word": "渊深"
    },
    {
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      "word": "深淵薄冰"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "深渊薄冰"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "淵渟岳峙"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "渊渟岳峙"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "淵渟嶽立"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "渊渟岳立"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "yuānyuán",
      "word": "淵源"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "yuānyuán",
      "word": "渊源"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "淵源錄"
    },
    {
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      "word": "渊源录"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "淵藪"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "渊薮"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "淵識"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "渊识"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "淵遠流長"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "渊远流长"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "淵鑑類函"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "渊鉴类函"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "淵魚叢爵"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "渊鱼丛爵"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "淵默"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "渊默"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "Chányuān",
      "word": "澶淵"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "Chányuān",
      "word": "澶渊"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "澶淵之盟"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "澶渊之盟"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "wèiyuānqūyú",
      "word": "為淵敺魚"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "wèiyuānqūyú",
      "word": "为渊驱鱼"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "盜跖顏淵"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "盗跖颜渊"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "相去天淵"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "相去天渊"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "福如海淵"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "福如海渊"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "萬丈深淵"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "万丈深渊"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "積水成淵"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "积水成渊"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "脫網就淵"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "脱网就渊"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "臨淵履薄"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "临渊履薄"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "臨淵結網"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "临渊结网"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "línyuānxiànyú",
      "word": "臨淵羨魚"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "línyuānxiànyú",
      "word": "临渊羡鱼"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "虞淵"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "虞渊"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "重淵"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "重渊"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "靜淵"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "静渊"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "龍淵"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "龙渊"
    }
  ],
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      },
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  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "character",
  "senses": [
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          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "If, in measuring an abyss, you know that it is a thousand fathoms deep, it is owing to the figures which you find by dropping a string.",
          "ref": "探淵者知千仞之深,縣繩之數也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]",
          "text": "探渊者知千仞之深,县绳之数也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]\nFrom: The Book of Lord Shang, circa 3ʳᵈ century BCE, translated based on J.J.L. Duyvendak's version\nTàn yuān zhě zhī qiān rèn zhī shēn, xiàn shéng zhī shù yě. [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Moreover you dream that you are a bird, and seem to be soaring to the sky; or that you are a fish, and seem to be diving in the deep. But you do not know whether we that are now speaking are awake or in a dream.",
          "ref": "且汝夢為鳥而厲乎天,夢為魚而沒於淵,不識今之言者,其覺者乎,夢者乎? [Classical Chinese, trad.]",
          "text": "且汝梦为鸟而厉乎天,梦为鱼而没于渊,不识今之言者,其觉者乎,梦者乎? [Classical Chinese, simp.]\nFrom: Zhuangzi, circa 3ʳᵈ – 2ⁿᵈ centuries BCE\nQiě rǔ mèng wèi niǎo ér lì hū tiān, mèng wèi yú ér mò yú yuān, bù shí jīn zhī yán zhě, qí jiào zhě hū, mèng zhě hū? [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "abyss; deep water"
      ],
      "id": "en-淵-zh-character-6LyxmmmG",
      "links": [
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          "abyss",
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        [
          "deep",
          "deep"
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          "water"
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      ]
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "How deep and unfathomable it is, as if it were the Honoured Ancestor of all things!",
          "ref": "淵兮,似萬物之宗。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]",
          "text": "渊兮,似万物之宗。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]\nFrom: Tao Te Ching, 4ᵗʰ century BCE\nYuān xī, sì wànwù zhī zōng. [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "deep; profound"
      ],
      "id": "en-淵-zh-character-j-WmO4e7",
      "links": [
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          "deep",
          "deep"
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          "profound",
          "profound"
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    },
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      "glosses": [
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  "sounds": [
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      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yuān"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yuan¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄩㄢ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "jyun¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yên"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
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      "zh-pron": "yân"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "iŏng"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "ian"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yuān"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yuan"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yüan¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ywān"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "iuan"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "юань"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "juanʹ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɥɛn⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yūn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "jyn¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yun¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/jyːn⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Miaoli",
        "Northern",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yên"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System",
        "Miaoli",
        "Northern",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ien´"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hagfa-Pinyim",
        "Hakka",
        "Miaoli",
        "Northern",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yan¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/i̯en²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Miaoli",
        "Northern",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Sixian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian",
        "Southern"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yân"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System",
        "Meinong",
        "Sixian",
        "Southern"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "r"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System",
        "Meinong",
        "Sixian",
        "Southern"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ian´"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hagfa-Pinyim",
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Sixian",
        "Southern"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yan¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/(j)i̯an²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Sixian",
        "Southern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Foochow-Romanized",
        "Fuzhou"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "iŏng"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/yoŋ⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Fuzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ian"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ian"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "iefn"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Middle-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "'wen"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Baxter-Sagart",
        "Old-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/*[ʔ]ʷˤi[ŋ]/"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Old-Chinese",
        "Zhengzhang"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/*qʷiːn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɥɛn⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/jyːn⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/i̯en²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/(j)i̯an²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/yoŋ⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn³³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "other": "[ʔ]"
    },
    {
      "other": "[ŋ]"
    },
    {
      "other": "/*qʷiːn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "淵"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Chinese Han characters",
    "Chinese adjectives",
    "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Chinese lemmas",
    "Chinese nouns",
    "Chinese proper nouns",
    "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Eastern Min adjectives",
    "Eastern Min lemmas",
    "Eastern Min nouns",
    "Eastern Min proper nouns",
    "Middle Chinese lemmas",
    "Old Chinese lemmas"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "不測之淵"
    },
    {
      "word": "不测之渊"
    },
    {
      "word": "九淵"
    },
    {
      "word": "九渊"
    },
    {
      "word": "冰淵"
    },
    {
      "word": "冰渊"
    },
    {
      "word": "判若天淵"
    },
    {
      "word": "判若天渊"
    },
    {
      "word": "加膝墜淵"
    },
    {
      "word": "加膝坠渊"
    },
    {
      "word": "塞淵"
    },
    {
      "word": "塞渊"
    },
    {
      "roman": "tiānyuān",
      "word": "天淵"
    },
    {
      "roman": "tiānyuān",
      "word": "天渊"
    },
    {
      "roman": "tiānyuānzhībié",
      "word": "天淵之別"
    },
    {
      "roman": "tiānyuānzhībié",
      "word": "天渊之别"
    },
    {
      "roman": "rúlínshēnyuān",
      "word": "如臨深淵"
    },
    {
      "roman": "rúlínshēnyuān",
      "word": "如临深渊"
    },
    {
      "word": "如臨淵谷"
    },
    {
      "word": "如临渊谷"
    },
    {
      "word": "學問淵博"
    },
    {
      "word": "学问渊博"
    },
    {
      "word": "家學淵源"
    },
    {
      "word": "家学渊源"
    },
    {
      "word": "察見淵魚"
    },
    {
      "word": "察见渊鱼"
    },
    {
      "word": "寸指測淵"
    },
    {
      "word": "寸指测渊"
    },
    {
      "word": "山峙淵渟"
    },
    {
      "word": "山峙渊渟"
    },
    {
      "word": "嶽峙淵渟"
    },
    {
      "word": "岳峙渊渟"
    },
    {
      "roman": "Tiǎozhànzhě Shēnyuān",
      "word": "挑戰者深淵"
    },
    {
      "roman": "Tiǎozhànzhě Shēnyuān",
      "word": "挑战者深渊"
    },
    {
      "word": "探淵索珠"
    },
    {
      "word": "探渊索珠"
    },
    {
      "word": "文淵閣"
    },
    {
      "word": "文渊阁"
    },
    {
      "word": "洪淵"
    },
    {
      "word": "洪渊"
    },
    {
      "roman": "yuānbó",
      "word": "淵博"
    },
    {
      "roman": "yuānbó",
      "word": "渊博"
    },
    {
      "word": "淵塞"
    },
    {
      "word": "渊塞"
    },
    {
      "word": "淵思寂慮"
    },
    {
      "word": "渊思寂虑"
    },
    {
      "word": "淵泉"
    },
    {
      "word": "渊泉"
    },
    {
      "word": "淵海"
    },
    {
      "word": "渊海"
    },
    {
      "word": "淵淵"
    },
    {
      "word": "渊渊"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shēnyuān",
      "word": "深淵"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shēnyuān",
      "word": "深渊"
    },
    {
      "roman": "yuānshēn",
      "word": "淵深"
    },
    {
      "roman": "yuānshēn",
      "word": "渊深"
    },
    {
      "word": "深淵薄冰"
    },
    {
      "word": "深渊薄冰"
    },
    {
      "word": "淵渟岳峙"
    },
    {
      "word": "渊渟岳峙"
    },
    {
      "word": "淵渟嶽立"
    },
    {
      "word": "渊渟岳立"
    },
    {
      "roman": "yuānyuán",
      "word": "淵源"
    },
    {
      "roman": "yuānyuán",
      "word": "渊源"
    },
    {
      "word": "淵源錄"
    },
    {
      "word": "渊源录"
    },
    {
      "word": "淵藪"
    },
    {
      "word": "渊薮"
    },
    {
      "word": "淵識"
    },
    {
      "word": "渊识"
    },
    {
      "word": "淵遠流長"
    },
    {
      "word": "渊远流长"
    },
    {
      "word": "淵鑑類函"
    },
    {
      "word": "渊鉴类函"
    },
    {
      "word": "淵魚叢爵"
    },
    {
      "word": "渊鱼丛爵"
    },
    {
      "word": "淵默"
    },
    {
      "word": "渊默"
    },
    {
      "roman": "Chányuān",
      "word": "澶淵"
    },
    {
      "roman": "Chányuān",
      "word": "澶渊"
    },
    {
      "word": "澶淵之盟"
    },
    {
      "word": "澶渊之盟"
    },
    {
      "roman": "wèiyuānqūyú",
      "word": "為淵敺魚"
    },
    {
      "roman": "wèiyuānqūyú",
      "word": "为渊驱鱼"
    },
    {
      "word": "盜跖顏淵"
    },
    {
      "word": "盗跖颜渊"
    },
    {
      "word": "相去天淵"
    },
    {
      "word": "相去天渊"
    },
    {
      "word": "福如海淵"
    },
    {
      "word": "福如海渊"
    },
    {
      "word": "萬丈深淵"
    },
    {
      "word": "万丈深渊"
    },
    {
      "word": "積水成淵"
    },
    {
      "word": "积水成渊"
    },
    {
      "word": "脫網就淵"
    },
    {
      "word": "脱网就渊"
    },
    {
      "word": "臨淵履薄"
    },
    {
      "word": "临渊履薄"
    },
    {
      "word": "臨淵結網"
    },
    {
      "word": "临渊结网"
    },
    {
      "roman": "línyuānxiànyú",
      "word": "臨淵羨魚"
    },
    {
      "roman": "línyuānxiànyú",
      "word": "临渊羡鱼"
    },
    {
      "word": "虞淵"
    },
    {
      "word": "虞渊"
    },
    {
      "word": "重淵"
    },
    {
      "word": "重渊"
    },
    {
      "word": "靜淵"
    },
    {
      "word": "静渊"
    },
    {
      "word": "龍淵"
    },
    {
      "word": "龙渊"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "hanzi"
      },
      "expansion": "淵",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "character",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Literary Chinese terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "If, in measuring an abyss, you know that it is a thousand fathoms deep, it is owing to the figures which you find by dropping a string.",
          "ref": "探淵者知千仞之深,縣繩之數也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]",
          "text": "探渊者知千仞之深,县绳之数也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]\nFrom: The Book of Lord Shang, circa 3ʳᵈ century BCE, translated based on J.J.L. Duyvendak's version\nTàn yuān zhě zhī qiān rèn zhī shēn, xiàn shéng zhī shù yě. [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Moreover you dream that you are a bird, and seem to be soaring to the sky; or that you are a fish, and seem to be diving in the deep. But you do not know whether we that are now speaking are awake or in a dream.",
          "ref": "且汝夢為鳥而厲乎天,夢為魚而沒於淵,不識今之言者,其覺者乎,夢者乎? [Classical Chinese, trad.]",
          "text": "且汝梦为鸟而厉乎天,梦为鱼而没于渊,不识今之言者,其觉者乎,梦者乎? [Classical Chinese, simp.]\nFrom: Zhuangzi, circa 3ʳᵈ – 2ⁿᵈ centuries BCE\nQiě rǔ mèng wèi niǎo ér lì hū tiān, mèng wèi yú ér mò yú yuān, bù shí jīn zhī yán zhě, qí jiào zhě hū, mèng zhě hū? [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "abyss; deep water"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "abyss",
          "abyss"
        ],
        [
          "deep",
          "deep"
        ],
        [
          "water",
          "water"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Literary Chinese terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "How deep and unfathomable it is, as if it were the Honoured Ancestor of all things!",
          "ref": "淵兮,似萬物之宗。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]",
          "text": "渊兮,似万物之宗。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]\nFrom: Tao Te Ching, 4ᵗʰ century BCE\nYuān xī, sì wànwù zhī zōng. [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "deep; profound"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "deep",
          "deep"
        ],
        [
          "profound",
          "profound"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Chinese surnames"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a surname"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yuān"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yuan¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄩㄢ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "jyun¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yên"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yân"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "iŏng"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "ian"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yuān"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yuan"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yüan¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ywān"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "iuan"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "юань"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "juanʹ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɥɛn⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yūn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "jyn¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yun¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/jyːn⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Miaoli",
        "Northern",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yên"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System",
        "Miaoli",
        "Northern",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ien´"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hagfa-Pinyim",
        "Hakka",
        "Miaoli",
        "Northern",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yan¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/i̯en²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Miaoli",
        "Northern",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Sixian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian",
        "Southern"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yân"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System",
        "Meinong",
        "Sixian",
        "Southern"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "r"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System",
        "Meinong",
        "Sixian",
        "Southern"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ian´"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hagfa-Pinyim",
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Sixian",
        "Southern"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yan¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/(j)i̯an²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Sixian",
        "Southern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Foochow-Romanized",
        "Fuzhou"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "iŏng"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/yoŋ⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Fuzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ian"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ian"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "iefn"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Middle-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "'wen"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Baxter-Sagart",
        "Old-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/*[ʔ]ʷˤi[ŋ]/"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Old-Chinese",
        "Zhengzhang"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/*qʷiːn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɥɛn⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/jyːn⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/i̯en²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/(j)i̯an²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/yoŋ⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn³³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "other": "[ʔ]"
    },
    {
      "other": "[ŋ]"
    },
    {
      "other": "/*qʷiːn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "淵"
}
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  "section": "Chinese",
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  "trace": ""
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Chinese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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