蘊

See also: 藴 and 蕴

蘊	U+860A, 蘊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-860A

← 蘉
[U+8609]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蘋 →
[U+860B]

Translingual

Traditional	蘊
Shinjitai (extended)	藴
Simplified	蕴

Han character

蘊 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+16, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿女火廿 (TVFT), four-corner 4491₇, composition ⿱艹縕)

Derived characters

𢺝

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1068, character 14
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32434
Dae Jaweon: page 1534, character 9
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3323, character 13
Unihan data for U+860A

Chinese

trad.		蘊/藴
simp.		蕴
alternative forms		薀／蕰

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
媪
蝹	quːʔ, qrun, *qun
溫	*quːn
𥁕	*quːn
輼	*quːn
蕰	quːn, qunʔ, *quns
殟	quːn, quːd
豱	*quːn
緼	quːn, qun, qunʔ, quns
韞	quːn, qunʔ
瘟	*quːn
揾	quːns, qunʔ, *quːd
氲	*qun
煴	qun, quns
馧	qun, quːd
蒀
藴	qun, qunʔ
褞	*qunʔ
醖
慍	*quns
蘊	*quns
腽	*quːd
榅	*quːd
嗢	quːd, qruːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *quns) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 縕.

Etymology 1

Compare 韞／韫 (yùn).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yùn (yun⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄩㄣˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): wan⁵ / wan³ / wan² / wan¹
Eastern Min (BUC): ūng
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ong³ / uong³ / ong⁵ / uong⁵
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): ùn

(Teochew, Peng'im): ung²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yùn
  - Zhuyin: ㄩㄣˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yùn
  - Wade–Giles: yün⁴
  - Yale: yùn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yunn
  - Palladius: юнь (junʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /yn⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: wan⁵ / wan³ / wan² / wan¹
  - Yale: wáhn / wan / wán / wān
  - Cantonese Pinyin: wan⁵ / wan³ / wan² / wan¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: wen⁵ / wen³ / wen² / wen¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐn¹³/, /wɐn³³/, /wɐn³⁵/, /wɐn⁵⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: ūng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /uŋ³³/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ong³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɔŋ⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: uong³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /uoŋ³³²/
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ong⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɔŋ²¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: uong⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /uoŋ²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ùn
  - Tâi-lô: ùn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: uxn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /un²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /un⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /un²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /un¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /un²¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ung²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: úng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /uŋ⁵²/

Middle Chinese: 'jun

Rime
Character	蘊
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	文 (59)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	於云切
Baxter	'jun
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɨun/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔiun/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiuən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔun/
Li Rong	/ʔiuən/
Wang Li	/ĭuən/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔi̯uən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yūn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wan¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*quns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蘊
Reading #	1/1
No.	12998
Phonetic component	昷
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	醖
Old Chinese	/*quns/

Definitions

蘊

(literary) to accumulate; to hold in store; to contain
(literary) profoundness; profundity
(Buddhism) skandha

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wēn (wen¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): wan¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wēn
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wun
  - Wade–Giles: wên¹
  - Yale: wēn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uen
  - Palladius: вэнь (vɛnʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wən⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: wan¹
  - Yale: wān
  - Cantonese Pinyin: wan¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: wen¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐn⁵⁵/

Definitions

蘊

^† mare's tail, water plants of the genus Hippuris

Compounds

蘊草／蕴草
蘊藻／蕴藻

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “蕴”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 296.
莆田县县志編輯委員会 [Putian County Chronicle Editorial Committee], editor (1964), 莆田方言志（語音編） [Chronicle of Putian Dialect (Volume of Phonetics)] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min).

Japanese

Shinjitai	藴
Kyūjitai	蘊

Kanji

蘊

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 藴)

Readings

Go-on: うん (un)、おん (on)^{←をん (won, historical)}
Kan-on: うん (un)、おん (on)^{←をん (won, historical)}
Kun: おさめる (osameru, 蘊める)^{←をさめる (wosameru, 蘊める, historical)}、たくわえる (takuwaeru, 蘊える)^{←たくはへる (takufaferu, 蘊へる, historical)}、つむ (tsumu, 蘊む)
Nanori: おさむ (osamu)^{←をさむ (wosamu, historical)}

Compounds

蘊(うん)奥(おう) (un'ō), 蘊(うん)奥(のう) (unnō, “mysteries”)
蘊(うん)藉(しゃ) (unsha)
蘊(うん)蓄(ちく) (unchiku, “vast stock of knowledge”)
行(ぎょう)蘊(うん) (gyōun)
五(ご)蘊(うん) (gōn, “five skandhas of Buddhism”)
色(しき)蘊(うん) (shikiun)
識(しき)蘊(うん) (shikiun)
受(じゅ)蘊(うん) (jūn, “perception”)
想(そう)蘊(うん) (sōun)
秘(ひ)蘊(うん) (hiun)
余(よ)蘊(うん) (yōn, “inexhaustible supply”)
海蘊(モズク) (mozuku): Cladosiphon okamuranus, a type of edible seaweed

Etymology 1

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

五蘊

Wikipedia ^ja

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Skandha

Wikipedia

Kanji in this term
蘊
うん Hyōgai
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 蘊 (MC 'jun).

The Buddhist sense is a translation of Sanskrit स्कन्ध (skandha, “collection, grouping, heap”)^[1]^[2] or Pali khandha (“collection, heap”). See entry at 五蘊 (goun).

Alternative forms

薀

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɯ̟̃ɴ]

Affix

蘊(うん) • (un)

Noun

蘊(うん) • (un)

abundance, plentifulness
(Buddhism) a skandha (aggregate)
Synonym: 陰 (on)

Hyponyms: 色 (shiki), 受 (ju), 想 (sō), 行 (gyō), 識 (shiki)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
蘊
おさむ Hyōgai
nanori

Proper noun

蘊(おさむ) • (Osamu) ^{←をさむ (Wosamu)^?}

a male given name

References

^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

蘊 • (on) (hangeul 온, revised on, McCune–Reischauer on, Yale on)

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Compounds

五蘊 (오온, oon): the five skandhas of Buddhism

Vietnamese

Han character

蘊: Hán Nôm readings: uẩn, uẫn

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[DJS-1] Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN

[DJR-2] Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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