翂

翂	U+7FC2, 翂 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7FC2

← 翁
[U+7FC1]

CJK Unified Ideographs

翃 →
[U+7FC3]

Translingual

Han character

翂 (Kangxi radical 124, 羽+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 尸一金尸竹 (SMCSH), four-corner 1822₇, composition ⿰羽分)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 955, character 22
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28636
Dae Jaweon: page 1401, character 3
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3343, character 8
Unihan data for U+7FC2

Chinese

trad.		翂
simp. ^#		翂
alternative forms		𦐈

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pɯn): semantic 羽 + phonetic 分 (OC *pɯn, *bɯns)

Etymology

Related to 翂 (OC *pɯn, “appearance of birds flying slowly”) and 飛 (OC *pɯl, “to fly”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fēn (fen¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fan¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fēn
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fen
  - Wade–Giles: fên¹
  - Yale: fēn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fen
  - Palladius: фэнь (fɛnʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fən⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: fan¹
  - Yale: fān
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fan¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: fen¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐn⁵⁵/

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*pɯn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	翂
Reading #	1/1
No.	unlisted
Phonetic component	分
Rime group
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*pɯn/

Definitions

翂

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) appearance of birds flying slowly
- 其為鳥也，翂翂翐翐，而似無能。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  其为鸟也，翂翂翐翐，而似无能。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: Zhuangzi, circa 3^rd – 2^nd centuries BCE
  Qí wèi niǎo yě, fēnfēnzhìzhì, ér sì wúnéng. [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Compounds

翂翂翐翐

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03558