勇敢

Chinese

brave dare
trad. (勇敢) 勇 敢
simp. #(勇敢) 勇 敢

Pronunciation



Rime
Character 勇 敢
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 鍾 (7) 談 (143)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III I
Fanqie 余隴切 古覽切
Baxter yowngX kamX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/jɨoŋX/ /kɑmX/
Pan
Wuyun
/jioŋX/ /kɑmX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ioŋX/ /kɑmX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/juawŋX/ /kamX/
Li
Rong
/ioŋX/ /kɑmX/
Wang
Li
/jĭwoŋX/ /kɑmX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i̯woŋX/ /kɑmX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yǒng gǎn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jung5 gam2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 勇 敢
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yǒng gǎn
Middle
Chinese
‹ yowngX › ‹ kamX ›
Old
Chinese
/*loŋʔ/ /*[k]ˁamʔ/
English brave dare

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 勇 敢
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 15449 3674
Phonetic
component
用 敢
Rime
group
東 談
Rime
subdivision
0 1
Corresponding
MC rime
勇 敢
Old
Chinese
/*loŋʔ/ /*klaːmʔ/
Notes 說文從爪又,古聲,金文從爭甘聲,
此爲隸變

Adjective

勇敢

  1. brave; courageous; undaunted

Synonyms

Antonyms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
勇 敢
ゆう
Grade: 4
かん
Grade: S
on’yomi

Pronunciation

    • (Tokyo) ゆうかん [yùúkáń] (Heiban – [0])[1][2]
    • IPA(key): [jɯ̟ᵝːkã̠ɴ]

    Adjective

    勇(ゆう)敢(かん) • (yūkan) -na (adnominal 勇(ゆう)敢(かん)な (yūkan na), adverbial 勇(ゆう)敢(かん)に (yūkan ni))

    1. brave, courageous

    Inflection

    Synonyms

    Noun

    勇(ゆう)敢(かん) • (yūkan) 

    1. bravery, courage

    References

    1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
    2. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
    • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

    Korean

    Hanja in this term
    勇敢

    Noun

    勇敢 • (yonggam) (hangeul 용감)

    1. Hanja form? of 용감 (“bravery, courage”).

    Vietnamese

    chữ Hán Nôm in this term
    勇敢

    Adjective

    勇敢

    1. chữ Hán form of dũng cảm (“brave; courageous”).
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