媛 (wun4 jyun6 jyun4 | yuan2 yuan4) : young lady; beauty

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媛

wun4 jyun6 jyun4

yuan2 yuan4

[粵] wun4 | [國] yuan2
[1] young lady; miss
[2] used in female name

[粵] jyun6 | [國] yuan4
beauty; beautiful woman

Jyutping jyun4 is a variant reading of wun4 for meaning of "young lady".

Stroke count: 12

Level: 3

Radical: 女 (#38)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

媛

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名媛 ming4 jyun4 ming2 yuan2 = a young woman of a wealthy family; a woman of high status in society

淑媛 suk6 jyun6 = court rank for imperial concubine "the decent concubine"

焦媛 ziu1 wun4 ; ziu1 jyun6 jiao1 yuan4 = Perry Chiu Woon

陳文媛 can4 man4 jyun6 chen2 wen2 yuan4 = Bobo Chan

徐熙媛 ceoi4 hei1 jyun6 xu2 xi1 yuan4 = Barbie Hsu (a.k.a, Shiu Shiyuan)

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Decimal representation of this word: 媛
Unicode code for this character: U+5a9b (off-site link)

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