文

Characters in the same phonetic series (文) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Ideogram (指事): a man with a painted or tattooed chest – original form of 紋. The tattoo was usually a cross, a V shape or a stylized heart. In current form, tattoo has vanished, so simply an outline of a man (head, outstretched arms, legs, chest) similar to 立. Compare 大, which has no chest.
Unrelated to the Kangxi radicals 齐 and 攵.
Possibly a derivation, with -n nominal suffix, of 煤 (*mɯː) "soot (obs.), ink (obs.), coal" (Schuessler, 2007).
Semantic shift: "pattern, tattoo (made of soot)", "written glyph (made of ink)" > "literature" > "refined, cultured" (Schuessler, 2007).

Han etyl

一文


分

desc

→ Thai: หุน (hǔn, “a unit of length and weight”)

→ Zhuang: faen

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 八 (“to separate”) + 刀 (“knife”) – to separate with a knife.

Han compound

Obsolete. 皮 is used for SI prefix pico-.

(economy, numismatics) 0.01 yuan (or dollars, etc.); fen; cent


圓

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (圓):
* → Japanese: 円(えん) (en)
* → Korean: 원(圓) (won)

⇒ Khmer: នំអ៊ី (num ʼii, “tangyuan”)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɢon): semantic 囗 + phonetic 員 (OC *ɢon, *ɢun).
Borrowed from Tocharian B wänt-, Tocharian A wänt- (“to envelop, to surround”).

bor

alt. forms: 元 (yuán)


圜

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɡʷraːn, *ɡʷen): semantic 囗 (“circle”) + phonetic 睘 (OC *ɡʷeŋ).

Han compound

(numismatics) South Korean hwan (in circulation from February 15, 1953 to June 9, 1962)

(numismatics) won (currency of North or South Korea)


角

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (角):
* → Japanese: 角(かく) (kaku)
* → Korean: 각(角) (gak)
* → Vietnamese: giác (角)

→ Khmer: កាក់ (kak)
→ English: kak

→ Thai: กั๊ก (gák)

→ Vietnamese: góc

/t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴/

/t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴/

Characters in the same phonetic series (角) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Pictogram (象形) – a horn. A conservative version is 𧢲. Similar but unrelated to 甬, 用, and the bottom part of 備.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *krəw (“horn; angle; corner”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan རྭ (rwa, “horn”), Garo grong (“horn”), Jingpho nrung (“horn”), Chepang रोङः (roŋʔ, “horn”), 觡 (OC *kraːɡ, “antler”). The Tibeto-Burman *-ŋ final variant is reflected in 觥 (OC *kʷraːŋ, “drinking vessel made from animal horn”) (Schuessler, 2007). Possibly also related to 鹿 (OC *b·roːɡ, “deer”) (Sagart, 1999).
A derivative is 餃 (“stuffed dumpling”), named for its horn-like shape (Norman, 1988).
It is probably unrelated with Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂nós (“horn”) ( < *ḱerh₂- (“horn”)) and Proto-Semitic *ḳarn- (“horn”) despite the phonological and semantic resemblance between the three.

och-l

(numismatics) Classifier for money: one tenth of a yuan or dollar


克朗

/kʰɤ⁵¹ lɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/hɐk̚⁵ lɔːŋ¹³/

/kʰɤ⁵¹ lɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/hɐk̚⁵ lɔːŋ¹³/

(numismatics) crown; krona; kroon; króna; koruna; krone


元寶

/ɥɛn³⁵ pɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/ɡuan²⁴⁻²² po⁵³/

/ɡuan²⁴⁻²² po⁵⁵⁴/

/ɡuan¹³⁻²² po⁵³/

/ɡuan²⁴⁻¹¹ po⁵³/

/ɡuan²³⁻³³ pɤ⁴¹/

/ɥɛn³⁵ pɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/ɡuan²⁴⁻²² po⁵³/

/ɡuan²⁴⁻²² po⁵⁵⁴/

/ɡuan¹³⁻²² po⁵³/

/ɡuan²⁴⁻¹¹ po⁵³/

/ɡuan²³⁻³³ pɤ⁴¹/

(historical, numismatics) sycee; yuanbao (various gold and silver ingots used as currency in imperial China)


本位

/pən²¹⁴⁻²¹ weɪ̯⁵¹/

/puːn³⁵ wɐi̯²²/

/pun⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ui²²/

/pun⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ ui⁴¹/

/pun⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ui²²/

/pun⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ui³³/

/pun⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ui³³/

/puŋ⁵²⁻³⁵ ui¹¹/

/pən²¹⁴⁻²¹ weɪ̯⁵¹/

/puːn³⁵ wɐi̯²²/

/pun⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ui²²/

/pun⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ ui⁴¹/

/pun⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ui²²/

/pun⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ui³³/

/pun⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ui³³/

/puŋ⁵²⁻³⁵ ui¹¹/


爰金

/ɥɛn³⁵ t͡ɕin⁵⁵/

/ɥɛn³⁵ t͡ɕin⁵⁵/

(historical, numismatics) Ying yuan, a gold coin minted in the state of Chu during the Warring States period