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See also: 弯

彎 (Kangxi radical 57, 弓+19, 22 strokes, cangjie input 女火弓 (VFN), four-corner 2220₇, composition ⿱龻弓)

壪(塆) 灣(湾) 䘎𡤶𡿞𢺯𣡩𧆅𨈊(𨂺) 𬣗𱇋(𬶥)

Kangxi Dictionary: page 361, character 28
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9904
Dae Jaweon: page 680, character 6
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1005, character 22
Unihan data for U+5F4E

trad.	彎
simp.	弯

	Old Chinese
蠻	*mroːn
矕	*mroːnʔ
變	*prons
鸞	*b·roːn
巒	*b·roːn
灤	*b·roːn
欒	*b·roːn
鑾	*b·roːn
臠	b·roːn, b·ronʔ
羉	*b·roːn
䜌	b·roːn, b·ron, *b·rons
灓	b·roːn, b·roːns, *b·rons
圝	*b·roːn
曫	*b·roːn
孿	smroːns, smrons
彎	*qroːn
灣	*qroːn
攣	*b·ron
孌	b·ronʔ, b·rons
戀	*b·rons
㪻	pʰlons, klons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qroːn): semantic 弓 (“bow”) + phonetic 䜌 (OC *b·roːn, *b·ron, *b·rons).

May be cognate with 迂 (OC *qʷa, *qʷaʔ, *ɢʷa).

“homosexual”

Semantic loan from English bent.

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wān (wan¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): waan¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): vân
Jin (Wiktionary): van¹
Eastern Min (BUC): uăng
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): oaiⁿ / oan

(Teochew, Peng'im): uêng¹ / uang¹
Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ¹ue

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wān
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wan
  - Wade–Giles: wan¹
  - Yale: wān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uan
  - Palladius: вань (vanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wän⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: waan¹
  - Yale: wāan
  - Cantonese Pinyin: waan¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: wan¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /waːn⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: vân
  - Hakka Romanization System: van^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: van¹
  - Sinological IPA: /van²⁴/
Jin
- (Taiyuan)⁺
  - Wiktionary: van¹
  - Sinological IPA (old-style): /væ̃¹¹/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: uăng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /uaŋ⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oaiⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: uainn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: voay
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /uãi³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /uãi⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Kinmen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oan
  - Tâi-lô: uan
  - Phofsit Daibuun: oafn
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /uan³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Kinmen): /uan⁴⁴/

Note:

oaiⁿ - vernacular (“to act shamelessly; to be wronged”);
oan - literary.

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: uêng¹ / uang¹
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ueng / uang
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /ueŋ³³/, /uaŋ³³/

Note:

uêng1 - Chaozhou;
uang1 - Shantou, Jieyang, Chenghai, Chaoyang.

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai, Suzhou)
  - Wugniu: ¹ue
  - MiniDict: ue^平
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹ue
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ue⁵³/
  - Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /ue⁴⁴/

Dialectal data

彎

to bend; to make bent
彎腰／弯腰 ― wānyāo ― to bend over
(Penang Hokkien) to turn; to make a turn; to change direction
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to draw a bow
bent; curved; crooked; arched
Antonym: 直 (zhí)

彎曲／弯曲 ― wānqū ― bent

彎路／弯路 ― wānlù ― curved road
(neologism, slang) gay; homosexual
Antonym: 直 (zhí)

彎男／弯男 ― wānnán ― gay man

變彎／变弯 ― biàn wān ― to turn a straight person gay
bend; turn; curve; crook
彎子／弯子 ― wānzi ― bend

拐彎／拐弯 ― guǎiwān ― to turn (at a corner)
(Chinese calligraphy) a bend (such as in ㇉, ㇌, ㇟, or ㇠)
(灣／湾 (wān))
1. a bend in a river
2. a bend in the coastline; bay, gulf
Classifier for bent objects, such as a quarter moon.
(Xiamen and Quanzhou Hokkien) to act shamelessly and unreasonably; to be a rascal
(Zhangzhou Hokkien) to be wronged

Dialectal synonyms of 轉 (“to turn; to make a turn; to change direction”) [map]

(basic character strokes) 點 / 点 (diǎn), 橫 / 横, 豎 / 竖 (shù), 提, 捺 (nà), 撇, 折, 鉤 / 钩 (gōu), 彎 / 弯 (wān), 斜

彎

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 弯)

bend, curve
stretching a bow

Go-on: えん (en)^{←ゑん (wen, historical)}
Kan-on: わん (wan)
Kun: ひく (hiku, 彎く)、ひきまかなう (hikimakanau, 彎う)

Kanji in this term
彎
わん Hyōgai
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 彎 (MC 'waen). Compare modern Mandarin 彎／弯 (wān).

Note that this character is replaced in modern Japanese by the simplified character 湾 (wan), rather than the simplified Chinese character 弯 (wān, “bend, curve”). The Japanese simplified version means bay or inlet when used on its own, but now also includes the bend, curve meanings when used in compounds.^[1]

(Tokyo) わん [wáꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
IPA^(key): [β̞ã̠ɴ]

彎(わん) • (wan)

a bend, a curve

彎月, 湾月 (わんげつ, wangetsu): a crescent moon
彎曲, 湾曲 (わんきょく, wankyoku): a bend, a curve
彎屈, 湾屈 (わんくつ, wankutsu): bending over, stooping
彎珠 (わんじゅ, wanju): alternate name for 袴葛 (hakamakazura), a kind of orchid tree: Phanera japonica, syn. Bauhinia japonica
彎入, 湾入 (わんにゅう, wannyū): an inlet or bay along a coast

^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

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彎: Hán Nôm readings: loan, thoăn

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