Talk:阮

Pronunciation
how do you pronounce this in pu tong hua?

Etymology
What is the literal meaning other than the fact that it's a surname (and outside of the musical instrument)? 24.29.228.33 01:45, 25 March 2008 (UTC)


 * My personal opinion is that I'm afraid that this surname's etymology is not easy to trace. Dokurrat (talk) 07:44, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Hokkien MoE Holodict
Item 2 at the MoE entry seems to say gún is more common for women to refer to themselves in a song. Also Tainan data guán(男);gún(女), not sure how to interpret this but seems like it could be additional info. Hongthay (talk) 05:23, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
 * This article might give some insight: "有朋友回應講，教育部台語常用詞典，「阮」所收个台南音，伊註明查埔儂講 guán，查某儂講 gún. 我毋知影迄份調查，到底有問過幾个儂，咁有代表性？但是我實在真歹相信講，台南無論老儂囡仔，大大細細，只要查埔儂一律講 guán，只要查某儂一律講 gún，即種台語腔口實在不可思議. " One of the responses to the article: "潘兄,我台南儂,阮兜無分查埔查某攏講guan." — justin(r)leung { (t...) 12:16, 6 September 2016 (UTC)