Translingual

Han character

紋 (radical 120 糸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 女火卜大 (VFYK), four-corner 2094₀, composition ⿰糸文)

Descendants

• 纹

References

• KangXi: page 916, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27262
• Dae Jaweon: page 1345, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3376, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7D0B

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mɯn) : semantic 糸 ‎(“thread”) + phonetic 文 ‎(OC *mɯn) – a line of thread. Specialised character from 文 (OC *mɯn).

Etymology

From 文 (OC *mɯn, “mark, tattoo”).

Pronunciation

Definitions

紋

1. line; streak; stripe
2. grain (of wood)
3. wrinkle
4. pattern
5. to tattoo

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. crest (often of a family)

Readings

• Goon: もん (mon)
• Kan’on: ぶん (bun)
• Kun: あや (aya), もよう (moyō)
• Nanori: あき (aki), あや (aya)

Compounds

• 家紋 (かもん) ‎(kamon, “family crest”)
• 定紋 (じょうもん) ‎(jōmon, “crest (often of a family)”)
• 紋所 (もんどころ) ‎(mondokoro, “crest (often of a family)”)
• 紋章 (もんしょう) ‎(monshō, “crest”)
• 指紋 (しもん) ‎(shimon, “fingerprint”)
• 声紋 (せいもん) ‎(seimon, “voice signature”)
• 南天紋 (なんてんもん) ‎(nanten mon)
• 籠目紋 (かごめもん) ‎(kagome mon)

Korean

Hanja

紋 • ‎(mun) (hangeul 문, revised mun, McCune-Reischauer mun, Yale mun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

紋 (văn, vằn, vân, vện)

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