Character: 員
Modern (Beijing) reading: yuán
Preclassic Old Chinese: wran
Classic Old Chinese: wran
Western Han Chinese: wran
Eastern Han Chinese: wran
Early Postclassic Chinese: wen
Middle Postclassic Chinese: wen
Late Postclassic Chinese: wen
Middle Chinese: wen
English meaning : circle, circumference; recur
Russian meaning[s]: 1) чиновник; чин; сотрудник; 2) член (организации); 3) счетный суффикс для чиновников и командиров; 4) круглый, вм. 圓 1); [yún] древн. приносить пользу; [yùn] Юнь (фамилия)
Comments: Also read *w(h)ǝn, MC ɦün, Mand. yún 'a final particle with unclear meaning'. The meaning 'circle, round' in later times (beginning since Late Zhou) was more usually written as 圓. For *w- cf. Xiamen ĩ2, uan2, Chaozhou ĩ2, ueŋ2, Fuzhou ieŋ2, uoŋ2.
Radical: 30
Four-angle index: 7956
Karlgren code: 0227 a-b
Vietnamese reading: viên
Jianchuan Bai: ŋui7
Dali Bai: ui7
Bijiang Bai: ver7
