然

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然

  • rán (ran²) Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Pinyin
  • ㄖㄢˊ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Bopomofo
  • ran² Mandarin, Chengdu, Sichuanese
  • jin⁴ Cantonese, Jyutping
  • len⁴ Gan, Wiktionary specific
  • yèn Hakka, Sixian, Phak fa su
  • yàn Hakka, Sixian, Phak fa su
  • yan² Hakka, 梅縣, 客家話拼音
  • ran¹ Jin, Wiktionary specific
  • ǐng Min Bei, 建寧羅馬字
  • iòng Min Dong, Foochow Romanized
  • liân Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • jiân Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • riêng⁵ Min Nan, Teochew, Peng'im
  • riang⁵ Min Nan, Teochew, Peng'im
  • ⁶zoe Wu, Shanghai, Wugniu
  • yenn² Xiang, Changsha, Wiktionary specific
  • rán Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Pinyin
  • rán Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Tongyong Pinyin
  • jan² Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Wade–Giles
  • rán Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Yale
  • ran Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Gwoyeu Romatsyh
  • жань Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Cyrillic
  • /ʐän³⁵/ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Sinological IPA
  • rhan Mandarin, Chengdu, Latinxua Sin Wenz
  • /zan²¹/ Mandarin, Chengdu, IPA
  • jin⁴ Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou
  • yìhn Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou

Where it comes from

形聲漢字(上古 *njen):聲符 肰 (上古 *njen,“狗肉”) + 意符 火 – 燃燒。也許是會意漢字。衍生詞燃 (上古 *njen)在現代漢語替代原詞。

須注意左上部件被分析為肉,而所組成的部件肰,其被畫成一個傾斜的月,看起來更像是夕加上額外的筆順;對照祭、將。

融合了如 (上古 *nja, *njas)和其具有示範意義的音素*-n (Schuessler, 2007)。

釋義 ⿱犬一 · 𤉷 · 𤟙 · 嘫 · 㸐 · 𬊾

  1. obsolete 燃 (rán)的本字。 凡有四端於我者,知皆擴而充之矣,若火之始然,泉之始達。
  2. obsolete 如此;這樣 然後
  3. obsolete 副詞或形容詞後綴,表示“在某種意義上;像是”。 顯然
  4. obsolete 但是,可是 然而
  5. obsolete 對;正確 不以為然
  6. obsolete 贊同,同意 沛公然其計,從之。
  7. 姓氏
  8. Teochew 與之相似

Similar: 似, 像, 𫝛, 肖, macam, 像人家, 像家

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Similar: 似, 像, 𫝛, 肖, macam, 像人家, 像家

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {然},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/zh/%E7%84%B6},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}