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全
ぜん
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all, whole, entire
全, “all, whole, entire”, comes from Middle Chinese 全 (dzjwen, “complete, whole”).
Taken apart
No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.
Written with 全
In a sentence
その辞書は全２巻です。
The dictionary comes in two volumes.
軍部は全領土を占領した。
The armed forces occupied the entire territory.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “From Middle Chinese 全 (dzjwen, “complete, whole”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 全 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
Other readings of 全 on the same Wiktionary page
These describe other words written the same way, not ぜん. They are quoted for context: the parts, layer and processes of this word are not taken from them.
うつ
- “Compare 虚(うつ) (utsu-).”
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.