隕

See also: 殒 and 陨

隕	U+9695, 隕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9695

← 隔
[U+9694]

CJK Unified Ideographs

隖 →
[U+9696]

Translingual

Han character

隕 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 弓中口月金 (NLRBC), four-corner 7628₆, composition ⿰阝員)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1358, character 19
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41785
Dae Jaweon: page 1862, character 19
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4151, character 3
Unihan data for U+9695

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 隕
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (員) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
員	ɢon, ɢun
圓	*ɢon
塤	*qʰon
損	*sqʰuːnʔ
縜	*ɢun
隕	*ɢunʔ
殞	*ɢunʔ
溳	ɢunʔ, ɢun
磒	*ɢunʔ
霣	*ɢunʔ
愪	ɢunʔ, ɢun
勛	*qʰun
鄖	*ɢun
篔	*ɢun
貟	ɢun, ɢuns
韻	*ɢʷɯns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɢunʔ): semantic 𨸏 + phonetic 員 (OC *ɢon, *ɢun).

Pronunciation 1

trad.		隕
simp.		陨
alternative forms		磒／𬒍霣／𫕥

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yǔn (yun³)

(Zhuyin): ㄩㄣˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): wan⁵
Eastern Min (BUC): ūng
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ong³ / uong³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ún

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yǔn
  - Zhuyin: ㄩㄣˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yǔn
  - Wade–Giles: yün³
  - Yale: yǔn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeun
  - Palladius: юнь (junʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /yn²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: wan⁵
  - Yale: wáhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: wan⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: wen⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐn¹³/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: ūng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /uŋ³³/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ong³
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: eông
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɔŋ⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: uong³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /uoŋ³³²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ún
  - Tâi-lô: ún
  - Phofsit Daibuun: uon
  - IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /un⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /un⁴¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /un⁵⁵⁴/

Middle Chinese: hwinX

Rime
Character	隕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	眞 (45)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	于敏切
Baxter	hwinX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠiuɪn^X/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷᵚin^X/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiuen^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦjin^X/
Li Rong	/ɣjuĕn^X/
Wang Li	/ɣǐĕn^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯ĕn^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yǔn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wan⁵

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷrə[n]ʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*ɢunʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	隕
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yǔn
Middle Chinese	‹ hwin^X ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ʷrə[n]ʔ/
English	fall down
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	隕
Reading #	1/1
No.	16204
Phonetic component	員
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	殞
Old Chinese	/*ɢunʔ/

Definitions

隕

to fall
(literary) to destroy
(literary) to lose
(obsolete) alternative form of 殞 / 殒 (yǔn, “to die”)

Compounds

隕星 / 陨星 (yǔnxīng)
隕滅 / 陨灭 (yǔnmiè)
隕石 / 陨石 (yǔnshí)
隕落 / 陨落 (yǔnluò)
隕鐵 / 陨铁 (yǔntiě)

Pronunciation 2

trad.		隕
simp.		陨

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yuán (yuan²)

(Zhuyin): ㄩㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yuán
  - Zhuyin: ㄩㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yuán
  - Wade–Giles: yüan²
  - Yale: ywán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuan
  - Palladius: юань (juanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɥɛn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: jyun⁴
  - Yale: yùhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jyn⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: yun⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːn²¹/

Definitions

隕

(obsolete) alternative form of 員 / 员 (“surroundings”)

References

“隕”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “陨”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 296.
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Japanese

Kanji

隕

(Hyōgai kanji)

to fall
to die

Readings

Go-on: いん (in)^{←ゐん (win, historical)}
Kan-on: いん (in)^{←ゐん (win, historical)}
On: えん (en)
Kun: おちる (ochiru, 隕ちる)、おとす (otosu, 隕とす)、しぬ (shinu, 隕ぬ)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
隕
いん Hyōgai
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 隕 (MC hwinX).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ĩɴ]

Compounds

隕石
隕鉄
隕命
隕落

Affix

隕(いん) • (in) ^{←ゐん (win)^?}

fall; fall from the sky to the ground

Derived terms

隕(いん)石(せき) (inseki): meteorite

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 隕 (MC hwinX).

Hanja

隕 (eumhun 떨어질 운 (tteoreojil un))

hanja form^? of 운 (“fall”)

Compounds

운석 (隕石, unseok, “meteorite”)
운성 (隕星, unseong, “meteorite (one that has not fallen to the ground)”)

References

국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

Vietnamese

Han character

隕: Hán Nôm readings: vẫn

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