圆
circle; round; circular; spherical; (of the moon) full; unit of Chinese currency (yuan); tactful; to make consistent and whole (the narrative of a dream or a lie)
10 strokes
Dict coverage rank #660 U+5706
How 圆 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
囗 (semantic, “enclosure”) + 员 (phonetic, yuán)
How to remember it
round · Heisig RSH #550
pent in + 员 employee
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 员
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 员 (yuán) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 员 sound component | yuán | employee; member; personnel, staff |
| 损 | sǔn | to damage, to harm |
| 勋 | xūn | deeds, feats; merit; rank |
| 陨 | yǔn | to slip, to fall; to drop; to die |
| 殒 | yǔn | to die, to fall, to perish, to vanish |
| 郧 | yún | a county in Hubei province |
| 筼 | yún | tall bamboo |
| 埙 | xūn | ocarina |
Words containing 圆
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不圆通 | bù yuán tōng | inflexible; unaccommodating |
| 外圆内方 | wài yuán nèi fāng | lit. outside-flexible, inside-firm (idiom); fig. velvet glove |
| 花好月圆 | huā hǎo yuè yuán | lit. lovely flowers, round moon (idiom); fig. everything is wonderful; perfect happiness; … |
| 包圆儿 | bāo yuán r | to buy the whole lot; to take everything remaining |
| 打圆场 | dǎ yuán chǎng | to help to resolve a dispute; to smooth things over |
| 圆白菜 | yuán bái cài | round white cabbage (i.e. Western cabbage) |
| 圆子 | yuán zi | kind of dumpling; sticky rice ball |
| 大圆 | dà yuán | great circle (in spherical geometry) |
| 管圆线虫 | guǎn yuán xiàn chóng | "eel worm", a parasitic worm carrying meningitis |
| 圆心 | yuán xīn | center of circle |
| 自圆其说 | zì yuán qí shuō | (idiom) to make a story or theory consistent; to give a plausible explanation; to plug the… |
| 外接圆 | wài jiē yuán | circumscribed circle (of a polygon) |
| 日圆 | rì yuán | variant of 日元[ri4 yuan2] |
| 圆通 | yuán tōng | flexible; accommodating |
| 圆光 | yuán guāng | radiance emanating from the head; halo |
| 走圆场 | zǒu yuán chǎng | to walk around the stage (to indicate scene changes) |
| 圆点 | yuán diǎn | dot |
| 半圆形 | bàn yuán xíng | semicircular |
| 方圆 | fāng yuán | perimeter; range; (within) a radius of ... |
| 瓜无滚圆，人无十全 | guā wú gǔn yuán , rén wú shí quán | no gourd is perfectly round, just as no man is perfect (proverb) |