鴳

See also: 𫛩

鴳	U+9D33, 鴳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9D33

← 鴲
[U+9D32]

CJK Unified Ideographs

鴴 →
[U+9D34]

Translingual

Han character

鴳 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+6, 17 strokes, cangjie input 十女竹日火 (JVHAF) or 難十女竹日 (XJVHA), four-corner 3742₇, composition ⿰安鳥)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1487, character 35
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46852
Dae Jaweon: page 2019, character 2
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4633, character 3
Unihan data for U+9D33

Chinese

trad.		鴳
simp.		𫛩
alternative forms		鷃／𮭨

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
安	*qaːn
鞍	*qaːn
鞌	*qaːn
侒	*qaːn
按	*qaːns
案	*qaːns
洝	*qaːns
荌	*qaːns
晏	qaːns, qraːns
鴳	*qraːns
騴	*qraːns
鷃	*qraːns
頞	*qaːd
胺	*qaːd
咹	*qaːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qraːns): phonetic 安 (OC *qaːn) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ha:r (“fowl, chicken”) (STEDT).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yàn (yan⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): aan³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yàn
  - Wade–Giles: yen⁴
  - Yale: yàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yann
  - Palladius: янь (janʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: aan³
  - Yale: aan
  - Cantonese Pinyin: aan³
  - Guangdong Romanization: an³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /aːn³³/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

Middle Chinese: 'aenH

Rime
Character	鴳
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	刪 (69)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	烏澗切
Baxter	'aenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔˠan^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔᵚan^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɐn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔaɨn^H/
Li Rong	/ʔan^H/
Wang Li	/an^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔan^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	aan³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔˤ<r>a[r]-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*qraːns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鴳
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yàn
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔæn^H ›
Old Chinese	/*ʔˁ<r>a[r]-s/
English	a kind of quail
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	鴳
Reading #	1/1
No.	21
Phonetic component	安
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	晏
Old Chinese	/*qraːns/

Definitions

鴳

(archaic) quail
- 斥鴳笑之曰：「彼且奚適也？」 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
  斥𫛩笑之曰：「彼且奚适也？」 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]
  From: Zhuangzi, circa 3^rd – 2^nd centuries BCE
  Chì ān xiào zhī yuē: “Bǐ qiě xī shì yě?” [Pinyin]
  A quail by the side of a marsh laughed at it, and said, 'Where is it going to?'
only used in 鴳雀／𫛩雀 (“quail”)

Japanese

Kanji

鴳

(Hyōgai kanji)

quail

Readings

On (unclassified): あん (an)、えん (en)
Kun: うずら (uzura)

Korean

Hanja

鴳 (eum 안 (an))

quail

Vietnamese

Han character

鴳: Hán Nôm readings: yến

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References

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