容 U+5BB9, 容 ← 宸[U+5BB8] CJK Unified Ideographs 宺 →[U+5BBA] Stroke order

(Kangxi radical 40, 宀+7, 10 strokes, Cangjie input 十金人口 (JCOR), four-corner 30608, composition ⿱宀谷)

  • 傛, 塎, 嫆, 嵱, 愹, 搈, 溶, 榕, 熔, 瑢, 穃, 褣, 䡥, 鎔, 镕, 鰫
  • 彮, 㼸, 㮤, 蓉, 䈶
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 287, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7172
  • Dae Jaweon: page 567, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 933, character 17
  • Unihan data for U+5BB9

simp. and trad. alternative forms 㝐 ancient“looks”𠕺

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *loŋ): semantic + phonetic (OC *kloːŋ) – to hold; to contain.

容 has also largely supplanted 頌 (OC *sɢloŋs, *loŋ) for the sense of “appearance”.

to hold, to contain Probably related to Tibetan ལུང (lung, “holder”) (Schuessler, 2007). facial appearance Note phonetic and semantic resemblance to Burmese ယောင် (yaung, “appearance, semblance”), though the discrepancy in initials is problematic (Luce, 1981). “ronna-” Phono-semantic matching of English ronna-. Coined by the China National Committee for Terminology in Science and Technology and the State Administration for Market Regulation on World Metrology Day in 2023 (20 May 2023).

  1. to hold; to contain 每間教室能20多個學生。 [MSC, trad.]每间教室能20多个学生。 [MSC, simp.]Měi jiān jiàoshì néng róng 20 duō ge xuéshēng. [Pinyin]Each classroom can hold 20-odd students.
  2. to tolerate; to stand 寬/宽kuānróng ― to be lenient 不得別人批評/不得别人批评 ― róng bude biérén pīpíng ― cannot stand others’ criticism
  3. to allow; to permit 請我說兩句/请我说两句 ― qǐng róng wǒ shuō liǎng jù ― Please allow me to say something
  4. (literary) perhaps; maybe
  5. facial appearance; looks 笑xiàoróng ― smile 光煥發/光焕发 ― róngguānghuànfā ― (of one’s face) to glow with vigour and joy
  6. bearing; posture 市shìróng ― appearance of a city
  7. used in 容易 (róngyì) and 容與/容与
  8. used in 容容
  9. a surname 國團/国团 ― Róng GuótuánRong Guotuan (Chinese table tennis player)
  10. (~縣) Rong County, Yulin, Guangxi
  11. (Mainland China) ronna- (SI unit prefix) Synonym: 羅 / 罗 (luó) (Taiwan)

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. contain
  2. forgive, allow, permit
  3. shape, appearance
  • Go-on: ゆう (yū)
  • Kan-on: よう (yō, Jōyō)
  • Kun: いれる (ireru, 容れる)、ゆるす (yurusu, 容す)、かたち (katachi)、かんばせ (kanbase)
  • Nanori: かた (kata)、ひろ (hiro)、まさ (masa)、のり (nori)

Formerly used as man’yōgana for the back-vowel variant 甲類 (kōrui) of よ (yo).

Kanji in this term 容 かたちGrade: 5 kun’yomi For pronunciation and definitions of 容 – see the following entry. 【形かたち】2 [noun] [from 720] shape or form [noun] [from late 900s] shapeliness: see 形有り (katachiari) [noun] [from 1688] form, as opposed to substance (This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.) Kanji in this term 容 ようGrade: 5 kan’on

  • (Tokyo) よー [yóꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA(key): [jo̞ː]

容(よう) • (yō)

  1. to hold; to contain
  2. to tolerate; to stand
  3. content; substance
  4. look; appearance
  • “△容”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015-2026

From Middle Chinese 容 (MC yowng). Recorded as Middle Korean 요ᇰ (ywong) (Yale: yong) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

(eumhun 얼굴 용 (eolgul yong))

  1. hanja form? of (“face; contain”)
  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [2]

容: Hán Nôm readings: dung, dong, dông, gióng, giông, ròng, rông, rung

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