surname Ruan / small state during the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BC) located in the southeast of modern-day Gansu Province
ruan, a four-stringed Chinese lute

阮 character breakdown

surname Yuan / the Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368)
currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan) / first / original / primary / fundamental / constituent / part / era (of a reign) / meta- (prefix) / (math.) argument / variable / (Tw) (geology) eon

= + : Sun Wu Kong offers Yu the Great a coin just inside the anthill's kitchen. As Yu the Great takes it, she's literally shocked: Sun Wu Kong hooked up a capacitor to it to play a bad joke on her, and he's laughing his ass off.
Character component without intrinsic meaning

When on the left hand side of any character, it's the pope, but when it's on the right hand side of any character, it's the emperor.

Characters with 阮 as component

阮 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 阮

zhongruan or alto lute, like pipa 琵琶 but bigger and lower range
daruan or bass lute, like pipa 琵琶 and zhongruan 中阮 but bigger and lower range
scholar-official in the Qing dynasty (1764-1849)
see 阮[ruan3]
Nguyen An (1381-1453), aka Ruan An, Vietnamese architect and engineer, principal designer of the Forbidden City
Ruan Chongwu (1933-), third governor of Hainan
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng (1949-), prime minister of Vietnam 2006-2016
see 阮[ruan3]

Sentences with 阮

阮 currently does not appear in any sentence.