鴦

See also: 鸯

鴦	U+9D26, 鴦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9D26

← 鴥
[U+9D25]

CJK Unified Ideographs

鴧 →
[U+9D27]

Translingual

Han character

鴦 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+5, 16 strokes, cangjie input 中大竹日火 (LKHAF), four-corner 5032₇, composition ⿱央鳥)

female mandarin duck

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1487, character 6
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46822
Dae Jaweon: page 2018, character 12
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4623, character 14
Unihan data for U+9D26

Chinese

trad.		鴦
simp.		鸯

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
鴦	qaːŋ, qaŋ
佒	*qaːŋ
咉	qaːŋ, qaːŋʔ
眏	*qaːŋ
姎	qaːŋ, qaːŋʔ
坱	*qaːŋʔ
映	qaːŋʔ, qraŋs
泱	qaːŋʔ, qaŋ
盎	qaːŋʔ, qaːŋs
駚	qaːŋʔ, qaŋʔ
軮	*qaːŋʔ
醠	qaːŋʔ, qaːŋs
央	*qaŋ
秧	qaŋ, qaŋʔ
殃	*qaŋ
鞅	qaŋ, qaŋʔ, *qaŋs
鉠	qaŋ, qraŋ
雵	*qaŋ
胦	qaŋ, qroːŋ
柍	*qaŋʔ
詇	qaŋʔ, qaŋs, *qraŋs
岟	*qaŋʔ
炴	*qaŋʔ
怏	qaŋʔ, qaŋs
紻	*qaŋʔ
英	*qraŋ
瑛	*qraŋ
霙	*qraŋ
韺	*qraŋ
媖	*qraŋ
渶	*qraŋ
鶧	*qraŋ
楧	*qraŋ
暎	*qraŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qaːŋ, *qaŋ): phonetic 央 (OC *qaŋ) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”).

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yāng (yang¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄧㄤ
Cantonese (Jyutping): joeng¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yông
Eastern Min (BUC): iŏng
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ieo¹ / iunn¹ / yorng¹ / yoeng¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): iuⁿ / ioⁿ / iong
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹ian

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yāng
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄤ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yang
  - Wade–Giles: yang¹
  - Yale: yāng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iang
  - Palladius: ян (jan)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɑŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: joeng¹
  - Yale: yēung
  - Cantonese Pinyin: joeng¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: yêng¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jœːŋ⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yông
  - Hakka Romanization System: iong^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: yong¹
  - Sinological IPA: /i̯oŋ²⁴/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yông
  - Hakka Romanization System: (r)iong^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: yong¹
  - Sinological IPA: /(j)i̯oŋ²⁴/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: iŏng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /yoŋ⁵⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ieo¹
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: a̤uⁿ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ieu⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: iunn¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ĩũ⁵⁴⁴/
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: yorng¹
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: io̤ng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /yɒŋ⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: yoeng¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /yøŋ⁵⁴⁴/

Note:

ieo1/iunn1 - vernacular;
yorng1/yoeng1 - literary.

Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Taichung, Hsinchu, Lukang, Sanxia, Yilan, Kinmen, Magong)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iuⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: iunn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: viw
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Lukang): /iũ³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Yilan, Kinmen): /iũ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Tainan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ioⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: ionn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: vioy
  - IPA (Zhangzhou, Tainan): /iɔ̃⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iong
  - Tâi-lô: iong
  - Phofsit Daibuun: iofng
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /iɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /iɔŋ³³/

Note:

iuⁿ/ioⁿ - vernacular;
iong - literary.

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ¹ian
  - MiniDict: ian^平
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹ian
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /iã⁵³/

Middle Chinese: 'jang, 'ang

Rime
Character	鴦	鴦
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)	唐 (101)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	於良切	烏郎切
Baxter	'jang	'ang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɨɐŋ/	/ʔɑŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔiɐŋ/	/ʔɑŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiɑŋ/	/ʔɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɨaŋ/	/ʔaŋ/
Li Rong	/ʔiaŋ/	/ʔɑŋ/
Wang Li	/ĭaŋ/	/ɑŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔi̯aŋ/	/ʔɑŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yāng	āng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	joeng¹	ong¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔaŋ/

(Zhengzhang): /*qaːŋ/, /*qaŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鴦
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yāng
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔjang ›
Old Chinese	/*ʔaŋ/
English	female mandarin duck
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	鴦	鴦
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	14472	14491
Phonetic component	央	央
Rime group	陽	陽
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime		央
Old Chinese	/*qaːŋ/	/*qaŋ/

Definitions

鴦

female mandarin duck
鴛鴦／鸳鸯 ― yuānyāng ― mandarin duck

Compounds

亂點鴛鴦 / 乱点鸳鸯
同命鴛鴦 / 同命鸳鸯
被底鴛鴦 / 被底鸳鸯
野鴛鴦 / 野鸳鸯
鴛鴦 / 鸳鸯 (yuānyāng)
鴛鴦客 / 鸳鸯客
鴛鴦房 / 鸳鸯房
鴛鴦折頸 / 鸳鸯折颈
鴛鴦樓 / 鸳鸯楼
鴛鴦湖 / 鸳鸯湖
鴛鴦燈 / 鸳鸯灯
鴛鴦瓦 / 鸳鸯瓦
鴛鴦被 / 鸳鸯被 (yuānyāngbèi)
鴦龜 / 鸯龟

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “鸯”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 277.

Japanese

Kanji

鴦

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: おう (ō)
Kan-on: よう (yō)、おう (ō)
Kun: おしどり (oshidori)

Korean

Hanja

鴦 • (ang) (hangeul 앙, revised ang, McCune–Reischauer ang, Yale ang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鴦: Hán Nôm readings: ương

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