融 U+878D, 融 ← 螌[U+878C] CJK Unified Ideographs 螎 →[U+878E]
融 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+10, 16 strokes, Cangjie input 一月中一戈 (MBLMI), four-corner 15236, composition ⿰鬲虫)
- 瀜, 曧, 𭂧
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1092, character 42
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33384
- Dae Jaweon: page 1557, character 28
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2877, character 8
- Unihan data for U+878D
simp. and trad. 融 alternative forms 螎𧖓
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *luŋ): semantic 鬲 (“cauldron”) + phonetic 蟲 (OC *l’uŋ, *l’uŋs).
“hot air; steam; heat” > “to melt” > “to blend”.
Sino-Tibetan; compare Burmese လောင် (laung, “to burn; to be burnt; to scorch”). Related to 蟲 (OC *l’uŋ, *l’uŋs, “hot; hot air; hot weather”) (as in 蟲蟲 (OC *l’uŋ/l’uŋs l’uŋ/l’uŋs)), 爞 (OC *l’uːŋ, *l’uŋ, “hot weather”) and possibly the word family of *lVm: 焰 (OC *loms, “fire”).
It belongs to a word family comprising characters meaning “to melt, to smelt, to fuse, to dissolve”. In modern times the various characters have taken on their specialised meanings:
- 融 (OC *luŋ, “to melt (at normal temperature); to blend”)
- 鎔 (OC *loŋ, “to smelt; to melt (at a high temperature)”)
- 熔 (OC *loŋ, “to smelt; to melt (at a high temperature)”)
- 溶 (OC *loŋ, *loŋʔ, “to dissolve (in a liquid)”)
融
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) hot air; steam (during cooking)
- to melt
- to mix; to blend; to fuse; to harmonise
- (economics) to circulate
- short for 融城 (Róngchéng, “Fuqing, Fuzhou”)
- “融”, 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-
(Jōyō kanji)
- to dissolve
- to melt
- Go-on: ゆ (yu)
- Kan-on: ゆう (yū, Jōyō)
- Kun: とおる (tōru, 融る)、とける (tokeru, 融ける)
- Nanori: あき (aki)、あきら (akira)、あきらか (akiraka)、すけ (suke)、とお (tō)、とおる (tōru)、なかし (nakashi)、ながし (nagashi)、みち (michi)、よし (yoshi)
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)
- (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [juŋ]
- Phonetic hangul: [융]
融 • (yung) (hangeul 융, revised yung, McCune-Reischauer yung, Yale yung)
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融: Hán Nôm readings: dung
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