Character: 丸
Modern (Beijing) reading: wán
Preclassic Old Chinese: wār
Classic Old Chinese: wān
Western Han Chinese: wān
Eastern Han Chinese: wān
Early Postclassic Chinese: wān
Middle Postclassic Chinese: wān
Late Postclassic Chinese: wān
Middle Chinese: ɣwân
English meaning : small round object [L.Zhou]
Russian meaning[s]: 1) пуля; шарик, пилюля; 2) яп. "мару" - суффикс, завершающий названия японских коммерческих судов
Comments: The graph is attested already in Shijing, but only as a substitute for 桓 *wār q.v. (and actually rhymes in *-n - although only within one rhyme sequence - , which makes the reconstruction of *-r somewhat dubious). For *w- cf. Xiamen uan2, Chaozhou ĩ2, Fuzhou uoŋ2, Jianou ɔŋ2.
Radical: 3
Four-angle index: 7739
Karlgren code: 0163 a
Go-on: guwan
Kan-on: kuwan
Japanese reading: gan;maru;marumeru;tama;marui
Vietnamese reading: hoàn
