然
然 — yeon
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 그럴 연
- Romanization
- yeon
- English
- yes, certainly; pledge, promise
- Mandarin
- rán
- Japanese on'yomi
- ゼン, ネン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- しか しか.り しか.し さ
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 4
- Newspaper frequency
- #401 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 火 (86, 8 residual)
- Unicode
- U+7136
How 然 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 然 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 肰, 火.
Korean example words with 然
- 연후然後 Korean gloss: 그런 뒤
- 미연未然 Korean gloss: 어떤 일이 아직 그렇게 되지 않은 때
- 필연必然 Korean gloss: 사물의 관련이나 일의 결과가 반드시 그렇게 될 수밖에 없음
- 당연當然 Korean gloss: 일의 앞뒤 사정을 놓고 볼 때 마땅히 그러함. 또는 그런 일
- 개연蓋然 Korean gloss: 확실하게 단정할 수는 없지만 대개 그럴 것이라고 생각되는 상태
- 자연自然 Korean gloss: 사람의 힘이 더해지지 아니하고 스스로 존재하거나 저절로 이루어진다는 뜻을 나타내는 말
- 졸연猝然 Korean gloss: 갑작스럽게
- 율연하다慄然 Korean gloss: 두려워 떨다
- 감연하다敢然 Korean gloss: 과감하고 용감하다
- 묵연하다默然 Korean gloss: 잠잠히 말이 없다
- 숙연하다肅然 Korean gloss: 고요하고 엄숙하다
- 올연兀然 Korean gloss: 홀로 우뚝한 모양
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 然
- 自然しぜん nature; natural; spontaneous
- 当然とうぜん natural; right; proper
- 依然いぜん still; as yet; as it has been
- 依然としていぜんとして still; as yet; as of old
- 天然てんねん nature; spontaneity; natural airhead
- 突然とつぜん abrupt; sudden; unexpected
- 天然ガスてんねんガス natural gas
- 不自然ふしぜん unnatural; artificial; affected
- 偶然ぐうぜん coincidence; chance; accident
- 天然記念物てんねんきねんぶつ natural monument; protected species (animal, habitat, etc.)
- 全然ぜんぜん (not) at all; (not) in the slightest; wholly
- 未然みぜん before it happens; beforehand
Characters sharing the phonetic 然
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “연” in Korean.
Other hanja read “연”
Other hanja with radical 火
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences