然 · rán
yes, certainly; pledge, promise
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
yes, certainly; pledge, promise
- Mandarin
- rán
- Cantonese
- jin4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 然 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
ゼン ネン しか しかして しからば しかり しかるに しかれども もえるKorean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 연
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
Go deeperHán Việt (Thi Viện) ↗Wiktionary ↗
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+7136
- Radical
- 火 · 86
- Strokes
- 12 · Unihan
- Residual
- 8
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
12 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 然
Character connections
1 catalogue records include this shape in their first retained IDS. Graphical containment does not imply shared etymology.
Follow this component
Reverse links to attributed component analyses. Open each character for its role, source and words. Shared components do not establish word ancestry.
Sentence context · 1 matches
我们先吃饭，然后再走。
Source, contributors & licenses
Mandarin: Tatoeba #400336 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · Text editors: GlossaMatik · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: GlossaMatik
English: Tatoeba #400331 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: CM
Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- nyen · 如延 反切 · #602
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 4885 · nyen = 山開三平仙日
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- rán
- kCantonese
- jin4
- kDefinition
- yes, certainly; pledge, promise
- kTotalStrokes
- 12
- kRSUnicode
- 86.8
- kGradeLevel
- 2
- kTGH
- 2013:2723
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- rán 32213.050
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- rán 0954.030
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- rán 312.020
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- rán(3549) ran(84)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- rán粵jin4