Translingual

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *quns) : semantic 艹 ‎(“grass”) + phonetic 縕 - collecting (as in herbs).

Han character

蘊 (radical 140 艸+16, 22 strokes, cangjie input 廿女火廿 (TVFT), four-corner 4491₇)

References

• KangXi: page 1068, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32434
• Dae Jaweon: page 1534, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3323, character 13
• Unihan data for U+860A

Chinese

Alternative forms

• 藴

Pronunciation

Definitions

蘊

1. profound
2. to collect, to gather, to store
3. (Buddhism) skandha

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: うん (un), おん (on)
• Kun: つむ (tsumu), たくわえる (takuwaeru), おさめる (osameru), おさむ (osamu)

Compounds

• 蘊奥 (うんおう) ‎(un'ō), 蘊奥 (うんのう) ‎(unnō): mysteries
• 蘊蓄 (うんちく) ‎(unchiku) one's vast stock of knowledge
• 五蘊 (ごうん) ‎(goun): the five skandhas of Buddhism
• 受蘊 (じゅうん) ‎(juun): perception
• 海蘊 (もずく) ‎(mozuku): Cladosiphon okamuranus, a type of edible seaweed
• 余蘊 (ようん) ‎(youn): inexhaustible supply

Etymology 1

From Middle Chinese 蘊 ‎(*'jun) (/ʔjun/)

Pronunciation

• On'yomi
• IPA^(key): [ɯ̃ᵝɴ]

Noun

蘊 ‎(hiragana うん, romaji un)

1. abundance, plentifulness
2. (Buddhism) a skandha

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [o̞sa̠mɯᵝ]

Proper noun

蘊 ‎(hiragana おさむ, romaji Osamu)

1. A male given name

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [uə̯n˧˩˧]

Han character

蘊 (uẩn)

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