圆 (圓) yuán

1. yuán noun won; yuan
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: South Korea , Concept: Currency 货币
   Notes: Unit of currency in North and South Korea and also an alternate way of writing 元 for the Chinese unit of currency (FE '圓' 4; CCD '圆' 6; XHZD '圆' 4, p. 925)
2. yuán noun a circle
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (ABCE '圓'; FE '圓' 5; Kroll 2015 '圓' 1, p. 576; XHZD '圆' 1, p. 925)
3. yuán adjective circlar; round
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 圆形 (ABCE '圓'; CCD '圆' 1; FE '圓' 1; GHDC '圆' 1; Kroll 2015 '圓' 1, p. 576; XHZD '圆' 2, p. 925)
4. yuán verb to justify
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (FE '圓' 2)
5. yuán adjective satisfactory
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CCD '圆' 4; FE '圓' 3; XHZD '圆' 3, p. 925)
6. yuán noun circumference
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: An abbreviation for 圓周 (CCD '圆' 2; Kroll 2015 '圓' 1a, p. 576)
7. yuán adjective spherical; ball-shaped
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CCD '圆' 3)
8. yuán verb to complete
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 圆满 or 完整 (CCD '圆' 5; GHDC '圆' 4; Kroll 2015 '圓' 1b, p. 576)
9. yuán noun a round coin
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CCD '圆' 7)
10. yuán proper noun Yuan
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: (CCD '圆' 8)
11. yuán adjective ample
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 丰满 (GHDC '圆' 3)
12. yuán noun heaven
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: By metonymy (Kroll 2015 '圓' 2, p. 576)
13. yuán verb to completely draw a bow
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '圓' 3, p. 576)

Contained in

• 日圆(日圓) Japanese yen
• 自圆其说(自圓其說) to make a story or theory consistent; to give a plausible explanation
• 走圆场(走圓場) to walk around the stage (to indicate scene changes)
• 圆柱(圓柱) column; cylinder
• 圆通(圓通) flexible; accommodating
• 圆点(圓點) round dot
• 圆晕(圓暈) concentric circles; circular ripples
• 花好月圆(花好月圓) flowers are beautiful, moon is round; everything is wonderful
• 圆笔(圓笔) a round style of brush work
• 圆舞(圓舞) round dance
• 圆场(圓場) to mediate; to broker a compromise
• 圆鼓鼓(圓鼓鼓) round and bulging; rotund; protruding
• 圆周率(圓周率) pi
• 圆圈(圓圈) a circle; a ring
• 圆拱(圓拱) a round arch
• 不以规矩，不能成方圆(不以規矩，不能成方圓) without rules, nothing can be done (idiom, from Mencius); one must follow some rules
• 不圆通(不圓通) inflexible; unaccommodating
• 圆锥(圓錐) a cone
• 瓜无滚圆，人无十全(瓜無滾圓，人無十全) no gourd is perfectly round, just as no man is perfect
• 没有规矩，不成方圆(沒有規矩，不成方圓) without rules, nothing can be done; one must follow some rules
• 圆月(圓月) full moon
• 方圆(方圓) circumference ; to encircle; to wrap about ; square and round
• 圆括号(圓括號) parentheses; round brackets ( )
• 圆周(圓周) circumference
• 圆规(圓規) compass (drafting)
• 圆房(圓房) (of a child bride) to consummate marriage
• 团圆节(團圓節) Mid-Autumn Festival
• 没有规矩，何以成方圆(沒有規矩，何以成方圓) without rules, how can anything be done; one must follow some rules
• 圆孔(圓孔) round hole
• 桂圆(桂圓) longan fruit
• 溜圆(溜圓) perfectly round
• 方枘圆凿(方枘圓鑿) to put a square peg in a round hole
• 圆满(圓滿) satisfactory
• 晶圆(晶圓) wafer
• 半圆形(半圓形) semi-cirle
• 圆环(圓環) rotary; traffic circle; ring
• 圆柱形(圓柱形) a cylinder
• 滚圆(滾圓) as round as a ball
• 椭圆函数(橢圓函數) elliptic function
• 外接圆(外接圓) circumscribed circle (of a polygon)
• 圆锥形(圓錐形) a cone
• 圆谎(圓謊) to patch up one's lie (when inconsistencies appear); to cover (for somebody who has lied)

Also contained in

半开后不圆唇元音 、 大乘圆顿戒 、 圆顿戒 、 半闭前圆唇元音 、 圆明园遗址 、 开前圆唇元音 、 浊圆唇软颚近音 、 半开央圆唇元音 、 闭前圆唇元音

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• 卷三十 志第十: 音樂三 Volume 30 Treatises 10: Music 3 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 80
• 卷二十一 志第一: 禮儀一 Volume 21 Treatises 1: Rites 1 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 57
• 卷6 　志第1　禮儀一 Volume 6 Treatises 1: Rites 1 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 29
• 卷五十三　列傳第四十三 梁武帝諸子 Volume 53 Biographies 43: Sons of Emperor Wu of Liang History of the Southern Dynasties 南史 — count: 26
• 卷六十四 志第四十 儀衞 Volume 64 Treatises 40: Ceremonial Guards History of Ming 明史 — count: 25
• 卷108之一 禮志四之一 Volume 108a Treatise 4: Rituals 1 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 25
• 卷19　志第14 天文上 Volume 19 Treatises 14: Astronomy 1 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 22
• 卷七十一 志第二十四 律曆四 Volume 71 Treatises 24: Measures and Calendar 4 History of Song 宋史 — count: 19
• 卷二十二 志第二: 禮儀二 Volume 22 Treatises 2: Rites 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 17
• 卷五十六 Scroll 56 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 17

Collocations

• 圆丘 (圓丘) 營洛陽南委粟山以為圓丘 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷十九 志第九 禮上 Volume 19 Treatises 9: Rites Part One — count: 29
• 前圆 (前圓) 前圓後方 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 第三十 輿服下 冕冠 長冠 委貌冠 皮弁冠 爵弁冠 通天冠 遠遊冠 高山冠...Volume 120: Travel and Dress Part Two — count: 5
• 转圆 (轉圓) 如轉圓石於千仞之山者 — Art of War 孫子兵法, 孫子兵法 The Art of War by Sunzi — count: 4
• 圆方 (圓方) 言滿天地之圓方也 — Xunzi 荀子, 賦篇第二十六 Chapter 26: Fu Poetry — count: 4
• 天圆 (天圓) 天圓地方 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷三　天文訓 Chapter 3: Celestial Phenomena — count: 4
• 水圆 (水圓) 水圓折者有珠 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷四　墜形訓 Chapter 4: Terrestrial Forms — count: 3
• 祀圆 (祀圓) 今祀圓丘 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷十六 志第六 禮三 Volume 16 Treatises 6: Rituals 3 — count: 3
• 圆石 (圓石) 如轉圓石於千仞之山者 — Art of War 孫子兵法, 孫子兵法 The Art of War by Sunzi — count: 3
• 上圆 (上圓) 上圓下方 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷九十九上 王莽傳 Volume 99a: Wang Mang 1 — count: 3
• 正圆 (正圓) 然則績亦以天形正圓也 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷二十三 志第十三 天文一 Volume 23 Treatises 13: Astronomy 1 — count: 2