韻

	Old Chinese
員	ɢon, ɢun
圓	*ɢon
塤	*qʰon
損	*sqʰuːnʔ
縜	*ɢun
隕	*ɢunʔ
殞	*ɢunʔ
溳	ɢunʔ, ɢun
磒	*ɢunʔ
霣	*ɢunʔ
愪	ɢunʔ, ɢun
勛	*qʰun
鄖	*ɢun
篔	*ɢun
貟	ɢun, ɢuns
韻	*ɢʷɯns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɢʷɯns) : semantic 音 + phonetic 員 (OC *ɢon, *ɢun).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yùn (yun⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄩㄣˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): wan⁶ / wan⁵
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yun
Eastern Min (BUC): ông
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): ūn

(Teochew, Peng'im): ung⁷
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶yun

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: wan⁶ / wan⁵
  - Yale: wahn / wáhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: wan⁶ / wan⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: wen⁶ / wen⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐn²²/, /wɐn¹³/

Note:

wan5 - literary;
wan6 - vernacular (like 隕／陨 (yǔn), 殞／殒 (yǔn)).

Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yun
  - Hakka Romanization System: iun
  - Hagfa Pinyim: yun⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /i̯un⁵⁵/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yun
  - Hakka Romanization System: (r)iun
  - Hagfa Pinyim: yun⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /(j)i̯un⁵⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: ông
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ouŋ²⁴²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ūn
  - Tâi-lô: ūn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: un
  - IPA (Xiamen): /un²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /un⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /un²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /un³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /un³³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ung⁷
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ūng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /uŋ¹¹/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶yun
  - MiniDict: yuin^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³hhyn
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦyn²³/

Middle Chinese: hjunH

Rime
Character	韻
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	文 (59)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	王問切
Baxter	hjunH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɨun^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦiun^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiuən^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦun^H/
Li Rong	/ɣiuən^H/
Wang Li	/ɣĭuən^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯uən^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yùn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wan⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[m-qʷ]<r>i[n]-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷɯns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	韻
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yùn
Middle Chinese	‹ hwin^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[m-qʷ]<r>i[n]-s/ (no pre-Qín exx.)
English	harmony; rhyme
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	韻
Reading #	1/1
No.	16218
Phonetic component	員
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	運
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷɯns/
Notes	見蔡邕琴賦古作均

Definitions

韻

sweet music; melodious tune
(linguistics) rhyme; rime; final sound of a syllable (in a syllabic language)
(linguistics) rhyme group (in a rime dictionary)
appeal; charms; taste
to articulate (in Chinese music)

Compounds

References

“韻”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Shinjitai	韻
Kyūjitai ^[1]^[2]	韻󠄃 韻+`󠄃`^? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
The displayed kanji may be different from the image due to your environment. See here for details.

Kanji

韻

(Jōyō kanji)

rhyme
vowel sound

Readings

Go-on: うん (un)
Kan-on: うん (un)
Kan’yō-on: いん (in, Jōyō)^{←ゐん (win, historical)}
Kun: ひびき (hibiki, 韻き)
Nanori: おと (oto)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
韻
いん Grade: S
kan'yōon

Kan'yoon pronunciation.

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) いん [ìń] (Heiban – [0])^[3]
IPA^(key): [ĩɴ]

Noun

韻(いん) • (in) ^{←ゐん (win)^?}

rhyme
(phonetics) final
Synonym: 韻母 (inbo)
(phonetics) a rhyme group in Chinese rhyme dictionaries, consisting of kanji sharing the same or similar finals
Antonym: 音 (on)

Derived terms

韻(いん)を踏(ふ)む (in o fumu)

Affix

韻(いん) • (in) ^{←ゐん (win)^?}

Derived terms

References

^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 2306 (paper), page 1205 (digital)
^ Shōundō Henshūjo, editor (1927), 新漢和辞典 [The New Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Ōsaka: Shōundō, →DOI, page 1354 (paper), page 690 (digital)
^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

韻 • (un) (hangeul 운, revised un, McCune–Reischauer un, Yale wun)

rhyme
vowel

Compounds

운율 [韻律]
운치 [韻致]

Vietnamese

Han character

韻: Hán Nôm readings: vận, vần

This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

[1] Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 2306 (paper), page 1205 (digital)

[2] Shōundō Henshūjo, editor (1927), 新漢和辞典 [The New Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Ōsaka: Shōundō, →DOI, page 1354 (paper), page 690 (digital)

[DJR-3] Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[1]

[2]

[3]