焉

Translingual

Etymology

Pictogram (象形): a kind of bird (鳥).

Han character

焉 (radical 86 火+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 一卜中火 (MYLF), four-corner 1032₇)

1. thereupon, then
2. how? why? where?

Derived terms

• 蔫, 嫣, 鄢, 傿, 漹

References

• KangXi: page 672, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19076
• Dae Jaweon: page 1081, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2206, character 14
• Unihan data for U+7109

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		焉

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yān, yí (yan¹, yi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢ, ㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jin¹, jin⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yān
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢ
    • Wade-Giles: yen¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ian
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯ɛn⁵⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yí
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˊ
    • Wade-Giles: i²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yi
    • IPA ^(key): /i³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jin¹, jin⁴
    • Yale: yīn, yìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jin¹, jin⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /jiːn⁵⁵/, /jiːn²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (焉, reconstructed)
Character (焉), Pronunciation 1/3
Initial: 影 (34) Final: 元 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 謁言切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʔɨɐn/	/ʔɨ̯ɐn/	/ʔiɐn/	/ʔiɐn/	/ʔɨan/	/ĭɐn/	/ʔiɐn/
Character (焉), Pronunciation 2/3
Initial: 影 (34) Final: 仙 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 於乾切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʔiᴇn/	/ʔi̯ɛn/	/ʔiɛn/	/ʔiɛn/	/ʔian/	/ĭɛn/	/ʔjæn/
Character (焉), Pronunciation 3/3
Initial: 云 (35) Final: 仙 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 有乾切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɦiᴇn/	/i̯ɛn/	/ɣiɛn/	/ɦiɛn/	/ɦian/	/ɣĭɛn/	/ɣjæn/

Old Chinese pronunciation (焉, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
焉								yān								‹ ʔjen ›								/*ʔa[n]/								how
焉								yān								‹ hjen ›								/*[ʔ]a[n] (atonic)/								(3p locative pronoun)
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
焉					14227					焉					元					1					焉					/*qran/
焉					14232					焉					元					1					漹					/*ɢan/
焉					14235					焉					元					1					蔫					/*qan/

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Japanese

Kanji

焉

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: えん (en), い (i)
• Kun: いずくんそ (izukunso), すなわち (sunawachi), これ (kore)

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Korean

Hanja

焉 (eon)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 언 (revised: eon, McCune-Reischauer: ŏn, Yale: en)

• Name (hangeul): 어찌()

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: yên, vờn

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